You Lie, Boy
My naïveté about the anti-Obama folks must be at an all time high. But Maureen Dowd hit the nail right on the head when she understood an unspoken “Boy” at the end Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” outburst. According to Dowd, this South Carolina congressman “belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president. Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.”
I never thought of the anti-Obama crusade this way but it makes sense.
She goes on to say that “Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.”
Her editorial appears in The September 13th, Sunday NY Times. Click here — It’s worth a read!
I can’t write a comment when I am so appalled by Wilson.