Posted on 09/10/2009 11:50:40 AM PDT by Nachum
Republicans Distance Themselves From Heckler Who Shouted "You Lie!" During Obama's Speech
President Obama said he accepts the apology of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., who interrupted the president's speech last night to yell, "You lie!" after a line about how health insurance would not be provided to illegal immigrants. Share The president brushes off Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during health care speech.
"I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes," the president told reporters today following a meeting with his Cabinet members. "He apologized quickly and without equivocation, and I'm appreciative of that."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Did Obama apologize for calling his critics “liars” last night? The phrase is there shortly before Joe Wilson’s exclamation.
Republicans distance themselves, Joe Wilson grovels for forgiveness, and the GOP just lost all its backbone we had forced upon it over the last couple of months. No surprise.
The only mistake was the apology . . .
MISTAKES??? Bullshit!! That wasn’t a mistake calling him out on his lies! That was spot on target and I’m VERY disappointed that the Republican “leadership” urged Joe to apologize in the first freakin place!!!
How magnamious from the lying shyster. Obama should apologize for lying. If illegals aren’t covered by his grand plan, why are their numbers included in the ‘rats bogus 47 Mio uninsured Americans numbers?
Obama should not be using a joint session of Congress to spew his lies. That venue is reserved for things presidential and what he did last night was far from presidential.....
What, no beer?
Narcissists never apologize....watch, the sheeple will buy this BS as “compassion”! +++Sigh+++
No beer summit. BO rather have a beer alone so he can laugh his butt off!
O’bozo is the biggest mistake/liar in history.
did O apologize FOR LYING?!!!
WHY are Repubs such WEENIES?
Why block the legislation that would PROHIBIT providing medical coverage to illegal immigrants?
The list, ping
Which mistake are they talking about?...........the one who told the truth or the one telling lies?
Sounds like Obama doesn’t want Wilson to get anymore attention. I wonder why.
I believe the word you are looking for is 'Cowards'. They have no backbone, no testicular fortitude, no belief in what is right and no moral compass. And somehow, they believe that the Democrats respect them, when their own party members don't.
Yep, and the biggest mistake is sitting in the Oval Office.
“Even Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who proposed the idea of a “trigger” mechanism for government insurance — suggested last night by Obama — said she was disappointed the president didn’t drop the idea altogether.”
Huh?
The Obamaloon’s mistake was to believe that he had a measurable IQ.
>Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple. (Applause.)There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
Called his critics "liars".
The lying POTUS held his assembly before Congress so he could count on them for coordinated applause lines. THEY interrupted his speech. Joe Wilson should be afforded the SAME opportunity that has been enjoyed by members of the opposition party when Boosh was in the White House.
PS the media and B.O. never said a word about the Code Pinko who interrupted John McCain's GOP convention nomination acceptance speech. John seems to have been harsher on Joe Wilson that he was that woman who was granted unprivileged access by insiders in the convention.
What mistake did Wilson make, other than apologizing?
Why is the truth of your statement only published on FREEP?
Where is NR on this - or any of the conservative media?
Where is the outrage at the hypocracy of 100 senators and x number of congressmen being railed at by Presbo with the accusations of “liar”?
Correction: they never apologize for themselves. They love to apologize for others as a backhanded insult.
Wilson blew it. He should have stuck to his guns. Once again the spinelees OP sucks up to socialists proving they all belong to one big socialist Republicrat party.
There is no truth in the Pravda Media.
Even when the transcript is there before them, they will lie by omission and redact the quote to the line about illegal immigrants rather than including the FULL passage.
And they claim that the Right takes people “out of context”.
Joe Wilson has made himself a fool with his BS apology. He will now deserve all the heat that he gets. He should have told the GOP to stick it, when they told him to apologize.
We are never going to get out of this mess as long as the GOP remains the cowards in the fight. Wilson shouldn’t have started a fight that he wasn’t man enough to finish.
"He apologized quickly and without equivocation, and I'm appreciative of that." Obama said it's important to have a civil conversation and that "wild accusations" won't solve a problem.
Good point and for his name calling - thugs, terrorists, brown shirts, etc. - of conservatives!
Contact for leader Boehner. Send an email to express support for Wilson.
http://republicanleader.house.gov/Contact
Good post and thanks for reposting that part of his propaganda message that was spoken BEFORE Joe ‘took’ his moment to speak truth.
“BO is a KNOWN liar right from the get go!”
Obama Lies:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obamalies/index
Obama Breaks Promises:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obamabreakspromises/index
Obama is trying to milk as much political mileage out of this as possible.
He apologized for his decorum on the floor not the fact that Obama lied. There is a You Tube link on here of him standing by why he called him a liar.
The longer this stays out there, the more attention that is drawn to the lies of Obama. This is working out very well as Wilson only apologized for shouting out during the speech on the floor of the House nothing more.
Joe apologized to get his free BO Beer.
“We all make mistakes”
Yeah, like 52% last November.
Thanks for the link. He heard from me.
I got this response. - -
Thank you for contacting the Office of the House Republican Leader. Your thoughts are important to me and are appreciated. Due to the volume of E-mail I receive, it may not be possible to personally respond to your comments. However, please be assured that your comments are important to me and my colleagues.
Sincerely,
John A. Boehner
Republican Leader
Cut the nazi stuff. Obama deserves a lot of criticism, but he’s not hitler.
This is why they WILL be covered http://www.aaem.org/emtala/ coutesy of a fellow freeper,pass it on.
The last thing Obama wants is an open discussion of the issues and a review of the lies and half truths he has been spouting.
What a hypocrite! He called Sarah Palin a lier in his pre-prepared speech.
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