Did anyone else miss the best part of Obama's speech last night when the brave senator called Obama a liar?

I missed it , but in the meantime check out some common sense ! a politician who promised to be post-partisan and unifying, President Obama is proving to be awfully ideological and divisive. His speech on Monday at an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati showed that he enters Wednesday's national address on health care in full attack-dog mode. That approach is not likely to bring Americans together to support his unpopular policies.

As so often has been the case, Mr. Obama portrayed these United States as hopelessly misguided until he graced the Oval Office with his presence. "Wealth was valued over work, selfishness over sacrifice, greed over responsibility," he said. Notice how Mr. Obama never seems content with criticizing the choices of others but instead attacks their motives and character.

Again, he tried to make insurance companies into boogeymen, accusing them of greedily "raking in the profits" -- "inflated profits" -- even though the 3 percent average profit margin of insurance companies in recent years is one of the lowest margins of any major industry in the country.

The president accused "special interests" of "doing what they always do, which is just try to scare the heck out of people" -- and then he proceeded to try to scare the heck out of people. The future without his health-system reforms, he said, would mean more of "denying or dropping coverage when you get sick" and "premiums continuing to skyrocket three times faster than your wages ... more families pushed into bankruptcy, more businesses cutting more jobs, more Americans losing health insurance ... [and] more Americans dying every day just because they don't have health insurance."

Again, Mr. Obama accused his adversaries of spreading "all the lies," even though numerous centrist and even left-leaning fact checkers have said it is the president himself who has been misleading about whether the proposed reforms would provide public money for abortions or lead to rationing of health care.

Mr. Obama also repeated the biggest disinformation point of all, which is that those who disagree with his approach "don't have" any answers or solutions. "Their answer is to do nothing. Their answer is to do nothing," he insisted twice, which simply is not true. Almost nobody suggests that we "do nothing." Again and again, conservatives have offered multiple proposals for health care reform only to have Mr. Obama deliberately ignore or ridicule them.

For just a small sampling of the competing proposals that Mr. Obama labels as "nothing," consider these: 1) Various lawsuit reforms to keep down medical malpractice premiums, whose costs are passed on to consumers. 2) Allowing health insurance to be bought and sold across state lines. 3) Allowing the tax break for health insurance to be claimed by individuals as well as by businesses. 4) Increased use of health savings accounts. 5) Creation of "health stamps" for low-income people who otherwise wouldn't qualify for tax credits. 6) Allowing doctors who provide pro bono care to treat the value of their time spent doing so as a charitable deduction from their income taxes. 7) Allowing states to band together in regional insurance-pooling arrangements. 8) Various measures to make it easier for patients to figure out the costs of various services and doctors' fees so they can comparison-shop.

There are many alternative ideas for health care reform. Many of these proposals offer more real reform than any of the big-government concoctions Mr. Obama is trying to prescribe

Obama is A Gentlemen

Obama is Grace Under Pressure..

and is a Gentleman with Character.. who has the desire to take on an Health Reform problem with stamina , work and honesty to continue to completely the Undertaking of Bringing Health Reform to USA so all Americans will have Health Coverage and the forttitute to see the Health Coverage for all American to the end. ( Final Destination)

when all the Good will , and the Desire may have left him and he must face an Uphill Battle all the Way.

That is a Gentlemen with Honour.

The man who called him a LIAR is not a Gentleman but a Crude

Person without any Manners. Yes Let him Argue but to call anyone a A LIAR IN THE

Speech is UNACCEPTABLE for a gentleman

MARYLAND SENATOR.. RETIRED WITH HONOUR

Paul Sarbanes ( in the Senate for 30 years) Greek American Paul Would never call anyone a Liar .

No Wonder Democracy and the Faith of the Greek Septuagint and Greek New Testemant was the First of the

Christian Bible

Joe Wilson, my hero !! Of course the liberal news media is calling this a rallying call for the Right, it could be they are wrong and it might just be "Calling" out the current Administration. Time to tell it like it really is, Obama is nothing but a "Snake Oil Salesman" who's been caught with his pants down.

The majority of common sense Americans see thru his rhetoric, his numbers are starting to show our true feelings about his massive spending and liberal agenda.

Well, everyone in the chamber was embarrassed for him for such an outburst.

God only knows how hard everybody has been working on this reform day and night for months and how hard Obama wants everyone on board.

If anything, his rude outburst helped the Dems and the GOP band closer together.

You know what ? Obama is not a free man without checkpoints and accountability ! He is our President, unfortunately, and ought to have the honor that office holds, HOWEVER, Obama is accountable to WE, the PEOPLE of this nation. To publicly call him a liar is TELLING THE TRUTH, and that is what is needed !!! I applaud Joe Wilson's bravado !! Go, Joe !!! We're with you !

I think what our leader Pres. Barack Obama meant was we will all be rolling in money or broke depending on the passage of the budget. He did say and not a dry eye was present that the homeless children bothered him and policeman, fireman and our fighting men and women will not be one of them.

I missed it, but was glad that someone voiced what everyone was thinking. By the way, most reports say Obama's speech was a failure, and he probably made more enemies than anything.

EDIT: lol @ all the O-bots on here...give it up. Obama is going down the tubes.

Everyone knows Obama is a liar and finally someone called him to the carpet on it. Nice going Joe Wilson.

How much you wanna bet that senator gets re elected ? I wish he was in Maryland. THAT senator has back-bone and we need more like him

Yes...I think the outburst came just after Obama called the Republicians "liars."