Republican Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina has gone from nobody to "hero" status in many people's minds because of his uncivil actions during the President's speech a couple nights ago. Wilson apologized after the speech saying his emotions got the best of him.
I can't imagine going to a nationwide conference for Wal-Mart or Apple and heckling the C-E-O as he talked. I would get booted out of the conference.
The sad part is that people are calling Wilson a hero. Why? Because he openly called the President a liar? If he would simply read the proposed legislation, he would see that illegal immigrants would not get coverage. Secondly, he makes his own party look foolish when the President calls the GOP out for saying instead of trying to kill it, why not try to improve it?
And maybe the worst part of making a "hero" out of Wilson, we are saying to children and others that this behavior is acceptable.
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I think of him as a rude disgrace in my opinion. I can't believe anyone would show such disrespect to the President, whether he agreed with what he said or not. Has common courtesy just gone out of the window? I thought that whole incident was very disturbing.
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