When does it make sense to stop.

As the President began to continue his speech, he turned his head to his left and then a shout from the Republican side of the well could be heard. "You lie!" The entire body of legislators stopped, some of them booed the catcall and others turned in disbelief. Never had anyone in history ever called the President of the United States a liar during a joint session of congress, while the President was speaking. The cat-caller was later identified as Representative Joe Wilson.

His heckle is significant because it demonstrates that the ugliness that the right wing is beginning to show. What is also beginning to show is why most Americans have tried to distance themselves from their type of governance. This didn't begin with Barak Obama's election, it has been festering since Bill Clinton was elected. The right wing including Republican leaders and others have been attacking any Democratic President since 1992. It all began after Bill Clinton became president.

When Clinton was in office, he was investigated time after time--each time nothing was discovered and the President was exonerated. It cost taxpayers millions of dollars of investigations. He was even impeached but even that failed.

The right wing began to trash talk the President...the most vocal was Rush Limbaugh. However, it was in check due to the Fairness Doctrine. When the Republicans took the House and the Senate, Clinton made the mistake of signing a bill to repeal the Fairness doctrine. That repeal gave birth to a slew of attacks from radio and television. The Hannities, O'rielly's, Savages and Fox News were given a life of their own.

It got so bad that Clinton even called into Rush Limbaughs show to complain about the vitriol being spewed. A right wing organization went as far as to charge the President with Murder, drug running and money laundering. They even produced a video called "The Clinton Chronicles". It fed the fears of the gullible...and those same gullible people are being targeted again. When George W Bush was in office, not a peep from the right...they kept silent because they had a Republican white President.

Now the Beast has been woken up...and they are at it again. Only this time, they are more virulent, violent and racist. They hide behind the issues but extol cries of Socialism, Marxism, Nazi-ism and some just cry "I want my country back".

Have we gone this far to be pushed backward? It looks like there are American's out there who want to go back to a time they were fond of...the days in the 50's when Jim Crow ruled the land. As Americans we can't let the right take control of he direction we are headed in. We can't let them steer us so far right that everything we have worked for will come crashing down. They want the status-quo. They want our health care to be status quo. They voted against stimulus for hard working American's. They voted against the Cash for Clunker program. They are planning to vote against energy legislation, wall street reform, bank reform.

They will vote against their own interests to keep the fat cats rich and richer. Those gullible 9-12-ers, birthers and tea baggers don't see that they are being had in the biggest scam by the rich in history. The only people to get rich from denying American's Health Care are the fat cats in the insurance offices who take home 12-30 million dollars a year.

They only people who get rich from quashing financial reform are the employees of wall street who average $700-thousand dollars a year. Yet middle and lower class gullible citizens who have no health care, don't have any stock and work in manufacturing or are retired are fighting for the the super rich at the expense of their own well being.

Why would they do this? Because they have a passion inside them that is so strong, it is dwarfing their security...the passion is built on their idea that an African American President is not worthy of being a first class citizen. The old southern racist ideas have risen to the top of the pot and we all see it. Why did Joe Wilson have the cajones to call the President a liar, in front of millions of people? Because Joe Wilson, member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and voter to support the confederate flag on top of the South Carolina State Capitol, considers the President a 2nd class citizen. He was saying to the President "Hey Mr. Uppity President, you are lying and I don't care who hears me."

He is now being considered a "hero" to those on the right. It's time to call them out on this. If we don't, we will stop going forward and start heading backward. If the right isn't reminded of it's responsibilities, this type of activism will only lead to further polarize the electorate and diminish the Presidency for years to come.

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