“You lie!”<\/p>\n
Poor behaviour, certainly.\u00c2\u00a0 But if indeed the accusation is as ridiculous as people are trying to make it out to be, then surely a refutation (based on facts, not bald denial) should be a simple matter, and we could all move on.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, we have former President Jimmy Carter weighing in on matter, proclaiming the remark racist, and many alleging a racist undercurrent that won’t tolerate a black president, an undercurrent that just broke to the surface with that outburst of Wilson’s.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Possible.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be a racist; he may not be; certainly Jimmy Carter has no corner on the judgment of that question.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was apparently plenty of racist mail to black politicians following the incident, which is a shame, because it gives credence to the claim that “You lie!” is racist sentiment.\u00c2\u00a0 I wouldn’t mind discussing that, if it didn’t also detract from the real issue: whether President Obama is correct in what he has said.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I give our president enough\u00c2\u00a0credit that I don’t think he is\u00c2\u00a0intentionally stating a falsehood.\u00c2\u00a0 I do think it is possible that he may be wrong, however sincerely he believes\u00c2\u00a0he isn’t, and that deserves to be examined.\u00c2\u00a0 It ought to be examined despite disrespectful heckling and regardless of the underlying motives of such heckling.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
And let’s not forget that for about eight years BUSH LIES! T-shirts<\/a> have been tolerated, if not welcomed, by the same people who are now incensed that the public sentiment so openly expressed against our former president has now made to jump to congress to be expressed there against his successor.\u00c2\u00a0 If Joe Wilson is guilty of racism, are wearers of Those abovementioned T-shirts guilty of bushism<\/a>? texism? republicanism<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n I wish Jimmy Carter had stuck to foreign policy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n (Disclosure: I voted for Kerry in ’04\u00c2\u00a0and for Obama in ’08.)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “You lie!” Poor behaviour, certainly.\u00c2\u00a0 But if indeed the accusation is as ridiculous as people are trying to make it out to be, then surely a refutation (based on facts, not bald denial) should be a simple matter, and we could all move on.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, we have former President Jimmy Carter weighing in on matter, proclaiming the remark racist, and many alleging a racist undercurrent that won’t tolerate a black president, an undercurrent that just broke to the surface with that outburst of Wilson’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Possible.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be a racist; he may not be; certainly Jimmy Carter has no corner on the judgment of that question.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, there was apparently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}