- Liberals are acting all righteous and offended that a
member of the Republican opposition, Rep. "Joe" Wilson of South
Carolina, would deign to besmirch the "dignity of the presidency"
by calling out "Liar!" in the middle of President Obama's address
to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening.
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- But
what's wrong with that? Whatever the veracity of Obama's claim that his
proposed health care "reform" would not pay for the health care
of illegal immigrants residing in the US (and one can only hope that statement
was fatuous, because at a minimum we would certainly want the government
to pay for the care of an illegal immigrant in childbirth, or of an illegal
immigrant who came down with a contagious disease), why shouldn't members
of Congress call out a president if they think he's lying to them from
the podium?
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- One
of the big problems with American democracy is that the presidency has
over the years been elevated to the level of a monarchy, with all the imperial
pomp and pomposity formerly associated with royalty. Presidents surely
should get no more respect than a prime minister, and look at the hoots
and catcalls PMs have to endure when they address Parliament in the UK.
That's a good thing.
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- Anyhow,
it would have been far better if, instead of clapping wildly, liberal Democrats
in Congress had hooted down some of the other whoppers and stretchers told
by the president in his health care address.
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- Among
them...
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