Obama's Heckling Thread

[alfred russel]

I love this guy. He did more for healthcare reform than any congressional democrat has done.

[Fireblade]

Hopefully, he's censured and loses his seat in 2010. Think I'll donate some money to his challenger..

[Barrister]

EDIT: I would think this would be understood by Canadians - you guys have a hard enough time making your immediate southern neighbor and largest trading partner remember who your PM is; I doubt 1 in 10,000 would recognize the Governor General even if he plowed into them while escorted by an honor brigade of moose cavalry.

I guess I almost make your point when I remind you that our GG is a "she".

[Fireblade]

EDIT: I would think this would be understood by Canadians - you guys have a hard enough time making your immediate southern neighbor and largest trading partner remember who your PM is; I doubt 1 in 10,000 would recognize the Governor General even if he plowed into them while escorted by an honor brigade of moose cavalry.

I guess I almost make your point when I remind you that our GG is a "she".

The Haitian woman?

OMG WHERE IS HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE. 

[Hansmeister]

I've never even seen booing and hissing during a State of the Union.  The standard method of demonstrating disapproval is through sitting on your hands and looking stony during the applause lines.

Apparently it happened to Bush in 2005 over Social Security and to Clinton in 93, 95, 97 and 98.

And one of the Congressmembers booing and hissing was ....... Senator Obama.

I guess all this fake outrage at Joe Wilson simply proves that the speech by Obama was a disaster.
It was just a few years ago when the Democrats loved it when Joe Wilson called the President a liar.

[crazy canuck]

We have long recognized that the Head of Government should not also hold the position of Head of State. 

Any particular reason for that?  I guess the value of a powerless figurehead is sort of lost on me.

Someone gave a very good reason just a few posts ago.

To give the President shit when he is acting as the President is to sort of shit on the nation as a whole.

Its a bit odd to say that your head of government is off limits.

Still, a lot of people want to abolish gg's job because it's a worthless one

Agreed.  But I would rather have a worthless head of state rather then one that is off limits and does have power.

[CountDeMoney]

And one of the Congressmembers booing and hissing was ....... Senator Obama.

Youtube footage link, please.

And stop hating our President because he's black, you rascist bastard.

[crazy canuck]

I think yelling at someone who is giving a speech is a crass thing to do not matter what you call them.

Agreed.  We were going on a bit of a tangent regarding the reverence Americans otherwise have for the office of the President.

[Fireblade]

I've never even seen booing and hissing during a State of the Union.  The standard method of demonstrating disapproval is through sitting on your hands and looking stony during the applause lines.

Apparently it happened to Bush in 2005 over Social Security and to Clinton in 93, 95, 97 and 98.

And one of the Congressmembers booing and hissing was ....... Senator Obama.

I guess all this fake outrage at Joe Wilson simply proves that the speech by Obama was a disaster.
It was just a few years ago when the Democrats loved it when Joe Wilson called the President a liar.

You're full of shit. Just stop.

[crazy canuck]

I've never even seen booing and hissing during a State of the Union.  The standard method of demonstrating disapproval is through sitting on your hands and looking stony during the applause lines.

Apparently it happened to Bush in 2005 over Social Security and to Clinton in 93, 95, 97 and 98.

And one of the Congressmembers booing and hissing was ....... Senator Obama.

I guess all this fake outrage at Joe Wilson simply proves that the speech by Obama was a disaster.
It was just a few years ago when the Democrats loved it when Joe Wilson called the President a liar.

You're full of shit. Just stop.

The poor guy is just forwarding on what he recieves from whoever makes this stuff up.

[Sheilbh]

I guess all this fake outrage at Joe Wilson simply proves that the speech by Obama was a disaster.

I don't think it's fake outrage which is why everyone jumped on him Democrat and Republican.  I think what Wilson did was beyond the pale.  I mean what he did would be banned in the House of Commons

As I've said I've not much of a problem with the booing and hissing, or the derisive laughter - though it may not look good in a system not used to it.  But the heckle was just rude.

[Grey Fox]

EDIT: I would think this would be understood by Canadians - you guys have a hard enough time making your immediate southern neighbor and largest trading partner remember who your PM is; I doubt 1 in 10,000 would recognize the Governor General even if he plowed into them while escorted by an honor brigade of moose cavalry.

I guess I almost make your point when I remind you that our GG is a "she".

The Haitian woman?

OMG WHERE IS HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE. 

She was born in Haiti. Until she became the GG she actually had dual France-Canada citizenship.

[Hansmeister]

And one of the Congressmembers booing and hissing was ....... Senator Obama.

Youtube footage link, please.

And stop hating our President because he's black, you rascist bastard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqSXsNJzRM&feature=player_embedded

Unfortunately, this video doesn't have the right angle at the time of the Democrats erupting to interrupt President Bush to see the Obamateur reaction, though it was quite clear an universal outbreak (and not a singular case as with Joe Wilson), so your pathetic outrage now is laughable.  And of course this is still far tamer than the time the Democrats invited Code Pink as guests to disrupt the president's SOTU speech (and the Obamateurs speech wasn't a SOTU speech but a campaign event)

As far as the racism charge, you're the only person on this forum to ever engage in explicitly racists comments in reference to Obama so I just have to laugh (remember when you opposed Obama because you see black men all the time standing at the side of the road asking for change?)

[Razgovory]

Next week Hans will be telling us that Rep. Wilson is actually a registered democrat.

[Hansmeister]

I guess all this fake outrage at Joe Wilson simply proves that the speech by Obama was a disaster.

I don't think it's fake outrage which is why everyone jumped on him Democrat and Republican.  I think what Wilson did was beyond the pale.  I mean what he did would be banned in the House of Commons

As I've said I've not much of a problem with the booing and hissing, or the derisive laughter - though it may not look good in a system not used to it.  But the heckle was just rude.

The reason all the leftists are jumping on Wilson is that as long as they attack him they don't have to spend any time defending Obama's speech.  They're not really mad at Joe Wilson, they just don't know how they possibly could defend Obama's outlandish claims.