You can’t criticize a president in a time of war!
For today’s Republicans, apparantly nothing. But for the all the Americans in the history of this country, it was unconscionable, disrespectful, and unpatriotic.
Especially from another galaxy!
It wasn’t a lie stupid. So he didn’t speak truth to power, he spoke a lie to power.
Get it retard? Good, now go play nice.
You can argue about whether he deserved it, but Bush II got a lot of hate. However, I don’t recall any Democrat in Congress behaving comparably disrespectfully when Bush addressed them.
There were (and are) lots of insane-o nuts among the Democrats, but very few among the Democratic leaders and spokespeople followed along during the Bush II administration. Criticism was sometimes direct but consistently courteous for the most part among leading Democrat politicians.
There are lots of insane-o nuts in the GOP, and too many GOP leaders and spokespeople seem to be pandering to them, fanning the flames with seditious, overheated rhetoric about “death panels,” “socialism,” and encouraging doubt about Obama’s Constitutional right to be elected President. Wilson’s disrespectful outburst is a product of the current, diseased culture in the GOP.
Kerry and Hillary and all the other moonbat libs told us that “dissent was the purest form of patriotism.” If calling the president a “liar” during a Congressional address isn’t dissension, than I just don’t know what to think. As far as I’m concerned, Joe Wilson has just become my new favorite patriot…aside from Tom Brady, of course.
Actually, Obama told the truth, and Wilson’s outburst, in addition to being disrespectful to the office of the President, was the lie.
Bush did get some hate, but it wasn’t the “HE’S A SECRET MUSLIM THAT WAS BORN IN KENYA WHO WANTS TO MAKE US GAY MARRY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!” psychotic hate. Bush got hate for things he actually did. Post 9/11, every idiot was willing to give Bush a pass on anything. There was a “blindly trust the government” fervor with ridiculously high approval rates. It took massive effort by Bush to actually do things to stir up hatred towards him again.
Obama hasn’t even had time to do anything yet, besides by an uppity ghetto type in the white house (this is the actual code language I’ve seen used), and yet the hatred is so over the top that I don’t even think Bush hatred holds a candle to it.
And you’re right - it’s not just kooks on extremist blogs posting this shit - it’s people screaming “KILL HIM!” at public meetings and elected officials actually trying to stir this shit up and use it.
Are you actually quoting someone, or just “making stuff up?”
You seriously cannot see what is and is not appropriate decorum during Presidential addresses to Congress?
“Speaking truth to power” requires, first, that what you speak be true.
Bricker, you are correct. Please amend my comments to: “The overwhelming majority of Republicans have no sense of decorum, fair play, or patriotism.” Examples proving this are easy to find.
I pity the handful of decent conservatives like yourself who apparently thought they were attending a black-tie cocktail party and are surprised to find themselves in the middle of a drunken brawl.
Though, frankly. I see your only honorable role at this time to be that of Joseph Welch.
So let’s assume that this is a valid criticism - is this consistent with what you’ve said in the past? I trust you haven’t criticized anyone for the act of showing disrespect to the office of the president no matter how brazen?
That’s code? That’s not gonna win any awards for unbreakability.
There was a fringe of loony Dems with some seriously over-the-top nonsense, but in general I agree with you.
Those harvard law professor types - ghetto to the core.
Okay, you’re an asshole. And I’m a patriot for telling you so. Clear now? (It must be OK, you said so yourself.)
That’s because you’re not very smart. 
Obama couldn’t ask for better, with enemies like him, who needs friends? There he was, being all reasonable and non-partisan, and this guy draws an unCongresslike conduct foul! You can’t write a better script for Obama than that! Bless your nasty little heart, Joe Wilson, you done good for your country today!
So are you arguing that the circumstances here were an appropriate time, venue, and method for expressing dissent? Do you think Kerry or Hillary would have advocated such while Bush was in office? Did anyone do so while Bush was in office? Do you think John McCain was wrong for demanding an apology from Wilson?
You really need to jack up the power to transmit your message across the galaxy. Of course, then you still have to get past the tin foil.
But relatively few of them were in Congress, or setting the party agenda on talk shows.