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“Last week Republican Representative Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” to President Obama during Obama’s speech to Congress. While I support health care reform, I’m one of the few people,” I wrote in a column due out tomorrow, “who think it was fine for Wilson to confront Obama when he thought he was lying.

“I just wish,” I added, “that someone in Congress would have had the courage to stand up and say, “You lie!” to former President George W. Bush when he said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis died because of the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Being president does not give you the license to lie and when you do, someone ought to stand up and say, “You lie.”

Sometimes your words come back to haunt you.

My wife, Sarah, copy-edits my column. For the past several days I’ve had occasional back spasms which cause me to cry out in pain. I tend to be an optimist and when people ask me how I’m doing, I’ll answer, “Great!”

Last night we were talking and Sarah said, “You know, when people ask you how you are doing and you tell them you’re great, I want to point at you and say, “You lie!” We had a good laugh.