Flashback: Dem etiquette during Bush era
Reposting from HotAir.com…
Let’s start off by acknowledging that Rep. Joe Wilson needed to apologize for his outburst in Congress last night during the speech by President Barack Obama. Getting called a liar by the President in a speech may be infuriating, but a certain level of decorum is expected of our elected officials, and Wilson violated that decorum. He did the right thing by apologizing afterward.
Unfortunately, people on the Left want to keep hyperventilating about this as though the world was born on the day Barack Obama won the presidential election…. [But] the Democrats were hardly models of decorum in the last administration. Here’s a clip from the State of the Union speech in 2005, when George Bush warned Congress that Social Security was going broke and needed reform immediately. Did Democrats politely listen to the warning? Not exactly. Listen to the boos and catcalls:
And as Ed Morrissey wrote on Twitter, “Bush was right about Social Security, too.”
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I hate partisan politics- no matter who’s president. We’re a fortunate country; with the exception of Nixon, there hasn’t truly been a disaster in the Oval Office in recent years, as opposed to the instability that ravages other nations sometimes.
Hooray, America. Not stop trying to go crazy on the president, dear country, and things will be alright.
I say screw ’em. He shouldn’t have apologized. I’m sick of everyone telling Republicans that WE have to apologize for everything we do and they get a fricking pass on everything they do-which is equal to or greater than what we did that they made US apologize for. This is why we’re losing elections and they are not.
THEY LIE. THEY CHEAT. THEY BULLY US.
UNAPOLOGETICLY.
We become angry and frustrated when lied about, we call them out on their cheating, and say politely that we are being bullied.
And they make US apologize.
I’m so sick of this B.S.
Amen, X. Major double standard.
Totally agree xalisae. And Bush was treated terribly at O’s inaguration and booed there as well.
Liberals name call, boo and heckle and it’s ok.
Xalisae,
Agreed! What’s so wrong with calling a spade a spade, anyway?
I’m donating to Joe as soon as we get the money. People should be outraged that Obama is lying, not that Rep. Wilson called him out on it! I FEEL LIKE I’M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!
I think you’re all taking crazy pills
It’s a quote from a movie, Hal.
Wait-you think something? Really? You liar! You let The One do all of your thinking for you. If you are in fact thinking for once, is that thought lonely, Hal?
Hal,
When a man lies often enough, he begins to see some reaction to the lies. PBHO is seeing this in action. Yes, it’s a bit sensational to yell out “You liar” in the middle of his address, but we’ve gone the non-sensational route and we’re getting the same non-responsive reaction from the WH that we have been. So in this case, yeah, call a spade a spade.
I’m not usually in support of this sort of reactionary behavior, regardless of political party, and I’ve made comments in the past about finding such sensationalists as Randall Terry distasteful. That said, I think we’re getting pretty darn sick and tired of the same tired and untruthful mantra coming from our Pres. He’s gone from stretching the truth to plain out-and-out lying and it’s not okay. And MSM wouldn’t cover the reality if not for such as Rep. Wilson. Good for him!
Posted by: Vannah at September 10, 2009 10:20 AM
“We’re a fortunate country; with the exception of Nixon, there hasn’t truly been a disaster in the Oval Office in recent years,….”
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Let’s dispence with the ‘equivocating’. ‘other nations’ are not the standard by which we judge America.
‘disaster’ : a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction; broadly : a sudden or great misfortune or failure
The democrat party is a continuing ‘disaster’ and has been for quite a while.
I would have preferred that Richard Nixon stand trial for the crimes he was accused of committing. I remember exactly where I was driving when it was announced Gerald Ford had pardoned Nixon. I was hopping mad.
But Jimmy Carters ineptitude. His ‘naivete’ and his just plain poor ideology was a ‘disaster’. Carter is the one who first successly used the ‘misery index’ as a political weapon against Gerald Ford.
But what goes around comes around and Reagan took the weapon out of Jimmy’s dainty sweat soaked hands and artistically beat him about the head and shoulders.
‘misery index’-the sum of the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation used as an economic indicator.
During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, made frequent references to the misery index, which by the summer of 1976 was at
13.57%.
Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high, had a right to even ask to be President of the United States.
He won the 1976 election against Gerald Ford.
However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index had reached an all-time high of
21.98%.
Carter lost the election to Reagan in a landslide.
Now I heard on the radio today that our current unemployment rate is 16%.
Anyone know what the current inflation rate is?
Do you know why Jimmy Carter campaigned and voted for Barrak Obama?
So he wouldn’t be the worst president in U.S. history!
I agree with Jimmy Carter, on this one thing: B.O. does not deserve to be president!
Vannah, I will leave the it to Mary to break down the Clinton years for you. Bill’s pecadillos were the least of his disasters, but they are part of the mix when one starts is looking for the symptoms/ingredients of ‘disaster’.
Do you know what happened the woman who backed into a spinning propeller?
Dis ast er!
yor bro ken
Hal, just drink your Obama Kool-Aid, and you’ll feel better, I promise…….
Time out. It is recognized etiquette during State of the Union addresses to respond to the President, so long it is respectful. A bunch of “no’s” during the Bush SOTU address is very similar to the “no’s” that came from Newt Gingrich’s house members in the late 90s. The House etiquette during special presidential addresses is to either applaud or withhold applause. See Bush, September 2001 (albeit, most applauded, not realizing that Bush was lying in that speech, right? – when he said that ‘they hate us for our freedom’).
Yes, the etiquette rules are silly. But even senior Republicans had to condemn the personal “You lie” remark. Let’s see how both sides behave in January for the SOTU.