The Congressional Black Caucus Says Joe Wilson Is Encouraging the KKK

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) said Tuesday that people will be putting on "white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside" if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked. He said Wilson must be disciplined as an example.

"Emerging racist attitudes"? Who here can find one instance of people disagreeing with Obama because of his race? Who has said anything about skin color?

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote,
"I've been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer ... had much to do with race. But Wilson's shocking disrespect for the office of the president -- no Democrat ever shouted 'liar' at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq -- convinced me: Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it."

Uh, excuse me, Ms. Dowd. Someone did call Bush a liar, and it was a Democrat. Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), said:

"The Republicans are worried that we can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where you going to get that money. You gonna tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war. You don't have enough money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement...

...But the President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress." (emphasis mine)

You can find the video here.

I would say that what Pete Stark said about Bush is way more heinous than anything said about Obama so far.

The original article can be found here.