never use the word rope in a family where there s been a hanging. at every turn republicans had tried to smear the president as a liar and a cheat. the breadth and scope of the gop attack on the president s character, as howard pointed out, is remarkable. and it started pretty much the day he took office. it began, as i said, rather infamously when congressman joe wilson called the president a liar in 2009, when it came to the part of his health care plan. this part. let s watch joe wilson in action. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! that s not true. well that opened the floodgates. in 2011 republicans refused to acknowledge the reality of a dee faumt default. a debt default accusing the president of lying about basic math. president obama, quit lying. you know darn well that if august 2nd comes and goes there s plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of