"But, again, our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe, but I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that they may cause."Okay, then, I think that you are desperate and depleted of arguments on the merits of the atrocious, amorphous health care reform you thought the American people would swallow whole simply because you won an election and we tend to regard Barack Obama as a well-meaning person. And now you are babbling and whining about the way people are talking.
And I hope you will take responsibility for this embarrassing display. You haven't done your job and now you are crying in public — you, the first female Speaker of the House. Crying. Pretending to be afraid of violence when the talk that troubles you so hasn't even included threats of violence.
UPDATE: Michelle Obama tries to one-up Nancy.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 205 of 205The first entry today in WSJ's excerpts/homage to Irving Kristol is a perfect comment for Pelosi's latest performance as well as the movement she is helping to lead:
(from "Symbolic Politics and Liberal Reform", WSJ Dec. 15, 1972)
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," wrote Oscar Wilde, and I would like to suggest that the same can be said for bad politics. . . .
It seems to me that the politics of liberal reform, in recent years, shows many of the same characteristics as amateur poetry. It has been more concerned with the kind of symbolic action that gratifies the passions of the reformer rather than with the efficacy of the reforms themselves. Indeed, the outstanding characteristic of what we call "the New Politics" is precisely its insistence on the overwhelming importance of revealing, in the public realm, one's intense feelings—we must "care," we must "be concerned," we must be "committed." Unsurprisingly, this goes along with an immense indifference to consequences, to positive results or the lack thereof.
@frodo
Yes, Feinstein held the City together and made her political bones in the weeks following the murders and the trial verdict.
As I previously commented, there was no climate of fear before white flipped out, people were elated that Milk was elected. Sure there were the usual homophobic suspects grousing, but even after such terrible events it was par-tee time in SF in the late 70's -early 80's until AIDS arrived on the scene.
However, I do recall one more episode of violence and fear in SF during the 70's that Pelosi may be referencing. The Zebra murders? The entire region was petrified, but I don't think that quite meshes with her memory of events.
SF's power elite and political structure was almost entirely rich white males in the 1970's. Asians, Hispanics and Blacks were discriminated against by the party of the big tent in SF just as they were elsewhere in the country. Not until Art Agnos and Willie Brown ascended to power in Sacramento and later as Mayor did the power shift from the descendants of robber barons, coupon clippers and political fixers.
I'm female, and I was incredulous at SanFranNan's performance. She was not crying! That upward-right-corner eye thing was classic female fakery - check any beauty pageant. They don't let tears fall because they don't want to mess up their makeup.
Aside from the stupidity of her comments, NanGirl was quite simply faking it. And that's what I don't like about Pelosi.
i've never been one to go in for conspiracy theories, but i have speculated since the beginning of his campaign that a staged assassination attempt on barack would be just the ticket to 'save' him when the going got rough. is that what pelosi is priming us for ?
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