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Joe Wilson: Robot or Man?"
For years now, I've been suspecting that Joe Wilson is a robot. I don't mean the clunker-style 1930s movie-serial robot made of tin and puffing smoke. He's never been that noisy nor visible in D.C. He is more like Yul Brenner's android character from "Westworld"--covered in skin-like plastic and impassive no matter what the provocation.
His speeches at town halls and Republican meetings are always delivered in a smooth, sotto voce like those relaxing commentators on National Public Radio. You know the voices--they're the ones that will induce "highway hypnosis" if you listen to them while driving and cause you to drive into the back of an eighteen-wheeler on the interstate.
So far, Joe Wilson has come off like a quieter version of Lindsey Graham. He mostly says the right things but then he goes and votes the way that benefits him politically--such as his vote for the 2008 bail out under Bush of selected, rich, elite bankers initiating a series of the biggest corporate welfare packages ever seen in this country.
Joe has been the biggest waste of an office-holder I've ever made the mistake of voting for. If he truly believes what he tells us, then why doesn't he passionately FIGHT for us?
If Joe Wilson were to actually live up to his oath of office "to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America" then he would have no choice but to lead the fight in restoring our country to a federal republic that keeps the central government out of our daily lives. He would have to be proactive vs. being slightly reactive and sedentary in order to be considered a proper statesman according to the terms of the states' contract creating a very limited federal level of government.
Last night's outburst during Obama's speech has made me reconsider Joe Wilson. There could be signs of human life in the automaton after all. If he was not merely grandstanding to placate conservatives back home, it might just be that Joe felt, at least for a brief instant, the intense frustration that common working folks like me have been feeling for years now. This judgement is coming from someone who has protested Lindsey Graham (as well as other politicians) on multiple occasions in opposition to his continual lying and treason as a U.S. Senator.
Respect is something that is earned or, if already given, can be stripped away with proper provocation. When politicians don't deserve respect, they don't get respect from me. If we live up to the spirit of our revolutionary founders, we will do the same--en masse. A President constantly under intense fire and scrutiny by the populace usually can not get his agenda passed.
I'm downright encouraged by Joe's outburst. If our ancestors could show the ultimate disrespect to the King of England by constantly mocking him and then actually seceding from the British Empire, I think that merely pointing out in public that the emperor has no clothes is the LEAST our elected representatives can and should do.
Joe Wilson finally gets an "A+" from me for something he has done. However, he still has a long way to go in order to get his grade point average up from a "C-." The questions to ask him now are:
"How are you going to follow up this defiant statement, Mr. Wilson?"
"Will you reinforce your accusation against the President with the pertinent and easily obtainable documentation from the socialized medicine bill?"
"Will you go further to finally take a leadership role in Congress?"
"Will you finally WORK to get legislation passed that severs the unconstitutional controls, special interest privileges, loopholes, lobbyist corruption, and other fascist infringements on the natural law rights and liberties of the citizens, states, and businesses of our country?"
Thanks for your outburst last night, Mr. Wilson! You have demonstrated that you have at least a little bit of guts. Now will you please show us that you have a LOT of courage and help to restore the Republic?
Fight for us, Mr. Wilson! Action by you and others has never been more urgently needed. Quit the country club! Stop trying to be popular in D.C.! Live up to your oath of office for a change! And NEVER apologize to anyone for speaking the truth!
P.S.--It's really kind of funny about what happened with Wilson and his "outburst." If you listen to what Obama said just before the statement that Joe reacted to, there was a LOT of folks booing and some yelling things (unintelligible). Joe was obviously expecting them to do the same thing again after Obama's next statement. Unfortunately for him, no one else in the crowd around him responded as they had before and Joe Wilson's was the only voice heard. It's possible that Joe was just joining in with the crowd. It was probably a situation similar to someone speaking loudly over the music at a party when the music suddenly stops leaving him yelling something embarrassing in an otherwise dead quiet room.
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