This may be old news by now, but I have been teaching all day and am just getting around to reading the coverage of Obama’s health care speech from last night. It seems that Joe Wilson, the South Carolina congressman who called Obama a liar during the speech, is getting a lot of press today. Check out Wilson (or at least his voice) in action:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_szBoPEnk&hl=]According to this article from the Associated Press, not only has Wilson been rebuked by both Democrats and Republicans, but Rob Miller, his expected opponent in his re-election bid for his congressional seat in South Carolina’s second district, raised over 100,000 in the eight hours following the outburst. Wilson has since apologized.
Wilson may have let his emotions get the best of him, but let’s give him a break. At least he didn’t attack Obama with a cane in the way that Preston Brooks did to Charles Sumner in 1856.
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