Posted by
Disgruntled in NY on Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:59:29 PM
Ed:
Have to say that I'm not in complete agreement with you re. Joe Wilson. At least you called him a bonehead. I think the dismissive attitude toward our president is very similar to the attitude of the crazies who would not recognize Bush (#43) as a "legitimate" president or of Alec (the Bloviator) Baldwin who wanted to move out of the US. I think that part of being a patriot means loving your country and respecting the presidency, the office of the president and its occupant even in those moments when you disagree with those of your fellow citizens who elected him. The last thing we want is to seem like a bunch of 60s-era protesters whose lack of civility and general rudeness should be castigated and not imitated. Even Joe Smith's wife referred to the person who disrupted Obama's address as a "nut." Even though she is now supporting her husband (as she should), we should all recognize that he made a mistake.
There are lots of valid reasons, consistent with what we all have been saying for years, to oppose ObamaCare. However, those reasons don't give us license to abandon the principles we have used to come to the conclusion (in good faith, I would add) that many (most? all?) of the proposed changes to our healthcare system would only make things worse.