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Wilson apologizes: 'I let my emotions get the best of me'
CNN ^ | September 9, 2009 | CNN

Posted on 09/09/2009 7:37:05 PM PDT by Severino

“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. 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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; apology; bho44; gop; joewilson
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To: LaybackLenny

BTTT!


341 posted on 09/09/2009 9:00:35 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: Truthsearcher

We’ll ALWAYS be known as the party with a higher standard.

But this is war. Look around.

A minority in all houses with an adversarial MSM in an economy that’s going over a cliff.

And led by a Communist who hates the United States that you and I love.


342 posted on 09/09/2009 9:00:56 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Truthsearcher
The Democrats do this and worse all the time. They set the rules of the fight, about time we responded with some spunk.

Like Rush always says, passion is a must I you want to engage and win.

343 posted on 09/09/2009 9:01:25 PM PDT by duckln
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To: Severino
Well, anyway the damage is done. For someone to stand up and point out one of the lies in this infomercial it will give some reason to look at it a little closer.
344 posted on 09/09/2009 9:01:28 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Please don't turn me into flag@whitehouse.gov)
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To: Severino

Wilson is a fool.
By apologizing, he makes the story about his apology instead of 0bama’s lies.


345 posted on 09/09/2009 9:01:46 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Danae

Don’t forget your plastic drinking water bottles as well. I think Kewlongowwwskii will give you $0.05 for each bottle.


346 posted on 09/09/2009 9:01:55 PM PDT by B-Cause (2 Terms as limits for all politicians - the first term in office - second term in jail!)
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To: Yardstick
Glad he apologized, and that he did so promptly and sincerely.

I agree because the apology shows respect for the office of President, if not for the man in it. AND he didn't take back one word of what he said - his apology is framed so as to show he still thinks Obozo is a big fat liar; he just doesn't think it was appropriate for him to say so in this venue.

347 posted on 09/09/2009 9:02:06 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Severino
We had a Coup from the enemy within....TRAITORS AND COMMIE SCUMBAGS are in charge of all aspects of the federal gubbermint.

......and this is what the Republican party can muster for an opposition? I WANNA PUKE ON ALL OF THEM. They should RESIGN in mass.
348 posted on 09/09/2009 9:02:32 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: eyedigress
And what was it?

Watch it yourself. You issued the challenge. Do your own work.

349 posted on 09/09/2009 9:02:35 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("A community organizer can't start bitching when communities organize." - Rush, 8/5/09)
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To: behzinlea

*Wilson. Spoke. Out. *

And then he caved five seconds later, what a stud. He had every camera in the world headed his way and could’ve stuck to his guns but instead apologized. Screw him.


350 posted on 09/09/2009 9:05:54 PM PDT by j-damn
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To: Truthsearcher

Yes, and it was good for the undecided to hear someone speak truth to power.

Quite frankly, the undecided at this point must be those who take a poll and answer “I don’t know” when asked a question.

The time to be undecided is about over. Either they support a Communist takeover of America or they don’t. Their squeamishness about harsh realities of life doesn’t change the situation we are in.


351 posted on 09/09/2009 9:05:59 PM PDT by exit82 (Sarah Palin is President No. 45. Get behind her, GOP, or get out of the way.)
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To: Truthsearcher; DCPatriot
The people Joe Wilson should apologize to is us. Because when he lost control it hurt our side of the debate. I don’t give a damn that he hurt the feeling of BO or anybody on their side. It’s the fact he hurt our position in this debate that ticks me off.

Have you been snorting from Obama's mirror? Wilson's spontaneously calling a liar a liar was a tremendous thing. The truth must be told, in context, robustly, not timidly, hoping, oh gee, I've got to be winsome to win some. This is NOT a debate. It's a war to the death of the nation that is being called a debate by those attacking the nation in order to coerce the opposition into acting as though it really were a debate while honing the bayonet for a sudden thrust through the gut. Comity is for equals who disagree about particulars but who share fundamental underlying values. You and the robber want the same thing--your money, but that's no reason to engage in debate with a barbarian who means to despoil you.
352 posted on 09/09/2009 9:06:19 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Christian4Bush

Yes I did, I don’t recall anything to this level. Think you can remember Obammer Health Care, Joint Session, National Audience, LIAR. WHO SAID IT! (that’s my point)


353 posted on 09/09/2009 9:06:58 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: counterpunch

THANK YOU!


354 posted on 09/09/2009 9:08:39 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: DCPatriot

“But this is war. Look around.

A minority in all houses with an adversarial MSM in an economy that’s going over a cliff.

And led by a Communist who hates the United States that you and I love.”

Yes, too much is at stake. Which is why it’s even more important that we fight this war with smarts and discipline. Would you want your generals to make made charges into the enemy without a plan?


355 posted on 09/09/2009 9:08:47 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Severino

“...and yet, deep in my heart of hearts, I would do it all again, because I actually represent my constituents and I’ve read the bill!”

What I wish he’d also said! I’m sure he’s being pressured by Boehner, McConnell, etc. to apologize.


356 posted on 09/09/2009 9:09:03 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: muawiyah
“To: LibLieSlayer
Some very serious rules of decorum govern visits by the President to the Congress.”

He is not my president.

“Has to do with respect for the Constitution and the separation of powers.”

Show me where the usurper has shown any respect for the US Constitution... and his overreaching dictatorial violations of his executive powers shows absolutely no respect for either the US Constitution or Separation of Powers.

“You may not agree with it, but there it is. You don't like the Constitution, go somewhere else where they do it different ~ maybe South Korea ~ they do some beatdowns in Parliament!”

I love this Nation and have given her more than you could ever know. I know the US Constitution and consider it a gift from GOD HIMSELF... I read it as I read my Bible. I will not be intimidated or made to go quietly into the dark abyss. I will fight on as I have since I was a young man... and I have plenty of fight left in me... and I refuse to allow my Nation to be destroyed by communist muslim, who stated in an 1989 interview that our US Constitution is a “Fundamentally flawed document”. That means that at its very core, our US Constitution is flawed... incorrect and should be struck down and replaced. He went into how it should be rewritten to state what government should be allowed to do and less of what government can't do to you. I know my enemy well. These are HIS words... not mine. So no... I stand by my words here tonight.

LLS

308 posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:49:46 PM by muawiyah

357 posted on 09/09/2009 9:10:55 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Biggirl

“Why should he say sorry,”

The point was made!


358 posted on 09/09/2009 9:12:03 PM PDT by charmedone
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To: exit82
Their squeamishness about harsh realities of life doesn’t change the situation we are in.

I wish I could agree, but the majority of Americans don't yet recognize the communist takeover.

359 posted on 09/09/2009 9:12:18 PM PDT by glock rocks (health care, gun safety and climate change are strawmen. It's all about CONTROL.)
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To: Severino

NEVER apologize for doing the right thing.


360 posted on 09/09/2009 9:13:14 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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