Wilson’s wife said, “Say it isn’t so, Joe!”
Joe Wilson’s wife tells us that she watched Obama’s health care address to the joint session of Congress, and then:
Joe called me after the speech on Wednesday night and I said, “Joe, who’s the nut who hollered out “you lie” or “you liar”? And he goes, “It was me.” And I said, “No, really, who did it?”
The Wilsons have turned the whole incident into this campaign ad:
She’s a good woman.
Here is what the House has so far: (wow)
“Whereas on September 9, 2009, during the joint session of Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 179, the President of the United States, speaking at the invitation of the House and Senate, had his remarks interrupted by the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson; and Whereas the conduct of the Representative from South Carolina was a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House:
Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior of the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson, during the joint session of Congress held on September 9, 2009.”
The only thing Wilson did wrong was to apologize the way he apparently did. My apology would have been along the lines of, “I regret my momentary breach of decorum. Obama was lying. But House rules of manners require us not to respond forthrightly, freedom of speech be damned.”
The vote on the Resolution will be interesting.
What did Wilson do before becoming a pol? Wasn’t plumbing, was it?
An outstanding ad. I like Joe Wilson even better, now, b/c I like his wife. She is likely a strong woman. I wonder if people who are not from the South, who did not grow up around persons who were taught her particular ethic of civility and manners from the moment they were born, can recognize everything she is communicating? Probably they recognize it, but I am not certain. She is not communicating weakness, at all. She is communicating steel which is encased in good manners and graciousness. No one ought be fooled: you do not want to cross a gracious woman like this. Her graciousness is not weakness.
Apparently, the Wilson’s also have a healthy sense of humor, which is one hell of a recommendation.
Making lemonade of the situation, with that ad, shows that.
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