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Obama's Trouble with Numbers

ApolloSpeaks18 Wrote: Sep 11, 2009 7:18 AM

Not only was Joe Wilson's emotional outburst justified however uncivil, but, as reported by Rush Limbaugh, Obama sponsored legislation in both the Illinois and US Senates to extend health care coverage to illegal aliens-who he wants amnestied into citizens. Even if Obama does not intend to sign a health care reform bill that covers illegals they will get coverage anyway once he and the Dems grant them US citizenship. For it was this same Barack Obama who pledged to Hispanic groups during the campaign "that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office." Obama and the Dems have many ways to skin this cat...

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Obama's Trouble with Numbers

Let's stipulate that it was wrong of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to shout "You lie" during President Obama's health care speech. It was a violation of courtesy and etiquette. Wilson apologized -- which is more than the Democrats who booed President Bush's State of the Union address in 2005 ever did.

But I confess that watching at home, similar expostulations were heard. Some seemed to have burst, irrepressible, from my own lips.

There was, for starters, this misleading assertion: " ... If you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, or...

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