Posted on 09/11/2009 7:19:44 AM PDT by steve-b
Last night during President Obama's speech to the nation on health care reform from the floor of congress, a heckler or child depending on who you ask, yelled out "you lie" as President Obama was talking about illegal aliens not included in health care reform.
Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) is responsible for the shout-out and the destiny's of at least two politicians were set in motion.
The first being Rep. Wilson, right after the speech he received criticism from not only the left, but from the right as well. Senator Jon McCain (R-AZ) during an interview with CNN after the speech said Wilson was "totally disrespectful" and said Wilson needs to "apologize immediately"
Wilson said that after the speech the GOP leadership insisted that he apologize to the White house and tell them that his outburst was "inappropriate". Wilson called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and apologized.
Wilson office then issued a public apology: "I let my emotions get the best of me," Wilson said. "While I disagree with the president's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility."
So who is Rob Miller?
Rob Miller (D-SC) is a former Marine Capt. and the democrat who ran against Wilson for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district seat in 2008 and lost, but he made a good race of it with little in campaign contributions. But because of Wilson's outburst last night, Miller has been getting campaign contributions from democrats all across the country. At last count Miller has raised over $460,000 dollars for the 2010 mid term election, not bad for just one day. In last years election Wilson won with 53.7 percent of the vote.
While Wilson's childish outburst will play well with the hardcore right wing base in his district, it won't play well with moderate republicans and independents and certainly not with democrats.
The GOP party in South Carolina is still reeling because of their Governor Mark Sanford's affair with a women in Argentina. Joe Wilson and his outburst has put another cloud over South Carolina's GOP politics.
The money that Rob Miller has raised because of Wilson's outburst may very well be the undoing of Joe Wilson, time will tell.
thank you for letting me know I wasn’t the only one to notice.
It’s interesting the insane mob uses the term “childish” to describe Joe Wilson’s welling out of honesty. It was HE, and he almost alone who acted the ADULT that day.
There was another Rep who walked out — that was also the action of a sane adult. But to sit and act the very public role of an appreciative sympathetic audience to a lying slandering madman — that’s not adult at all. It is the act of children in a grade school marched into the school multipurpose room to watch a puppet show.
Actually, it might be the one about Ghengis Khan! (Jinjus Kahn)
I missed it.
Little? He spent over 600,000 dollars on his loser bid in 2008.
I was referring to our very own Hussein, the one in the WH.
Oh!!! That liar!
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