Op-Ed on Joe Wilson

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Michael

Maureen Dowd has an op-ed in The New York Times. It’s about that whiny little brat who cannot apparently read or understand any legislation relating to the health care bill, Joe Wilson. You know the guy, he yelled “You lie!” when Obama said illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered by any reformed health care. Yeah, he’s a full-fledged moron. But his problems with intelligence may run deeper than that.

Now [Obama’s] at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension. Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.

I have to disagree with one point: the majority of the racist, bigoted, poorly educated Republican party which cannot accept being led by a black man isn’t exactly the “fringe”.

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