Alito: The New Joe Wilson?

I wanted to have more time to comment on the speech last night, but for now, I will say that liberals are so insanely protective of their commander in chief that now they're finding fault with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's head gesture during the President's State of the Union last night. Really? The Justice apparently shook his head when Obama unpresidentially mentioned the Court's decision in front of the full court and mouthed the words, "that's not true" and this is now the equivalent of shouting, "YOU LIE!" across the room? The comparison is absurd, but more importantly, Alito's observations were correct. Specifically, Obama claimed that the decision in Citizens United v. FEC, would "open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." As Bradley A. Smith pointed out today, the President's statement is false. "The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making 'a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election' under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any 'expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication.'" Does he have inept speech writers? Or did he deliberately shade the truth to influence public opinion (well, those of the public that were able to sit through his speech)?