Pelosi becomes a role model (Ellen Goodman Alert)

Buffalo News ^ | January 8, 2007 | Ellen Goodman

[2ndDivisionVet]

And so Nancy Pelosi ascends to the speakership with a series of "firsts" raining down on her like confetti. She's the first woman, the first Italian-American, the first Californian, probably the first chocoholic to take her place two heartbeats away from the Oval Office. But maybe there's another moniker worth adding to her resume as head of the unruly House-hold of Representatives. She's the only speaker whose first career was as a stay-at-home mom.

There's nothing new about politics itself as a second career. Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was a doctor before he ran for the Senate. Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was a teacher and coach. And who can forget Ronald Reagan's first career before he ran for political office at age 55?

But Pelosi married young, bore five children in six years, raised them, and didn't run for office until her youngest was ready for college. She was 47 when she got onto the fast track. She won the Speaker's cup at 66.

Pelosi was not plucked from the kitchen to Congress. The stay-at-home mom label may be politically correct these days but technically incorrect. Pelosi, offspring of a political family, was always involved in a campaign, she says, "no matter how little my babies were, if I was wheeling them in a carriage or carrying them in my stomach."

Nevertheless, she was the real mom McCoy, the cupcake-baking, Jeep-driving, school-trip mother who made the pink and silver angel costume that her youngest daughter still has. When she first ran for Congress against 13 other candidates, she had to face billboards aimed snidely at that resume, asking whether she was "a legislator or a dilettante?"

[2ndDivisionVet]

Give me a break!

[george76]

A Nancy Pelosi Moment: 2 - Look for the Union Label

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PC1L03CFlrw

[rlmorel]

"...legislator or a dilettante..."

Hmmm....let's see now...

...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...legislator...dilettante...

I don't know. I just cannot make up my mind here.

[whenigettime]

Pelosi Schmelosi

[rlmorel]

I know you feel this way, 2ndDivisionVet, so...here you go...

[Anti-Bubba182]

MoDo's big sister. They get meaner as they get older.

[ClearCase_guy]

John F. Kennedy -- a living god!
Barack Obama -- a living god!
Nancy Pelosi -- a woman ... and a living god!

The Godless Left sure does worship its leaders.

[Kimmers]

I have been hearing the usual BS about Princess Pelosi being a role model for young girls.....yes, give me a break, girls could care less about political action figures. Their role models are the people they are in contact with like clergy,teachers, parents, relatives....geez the left gives no credit to the real responsible adults in their lives.

[Roscoe Karns]

Remember the big hoopala they made over the FIRST black man to become Secretary of State? Or the FIRST black woman? Me either.

[savedbygrace]

"no matter how little my babies were, if I was wheeling them in a carriage or carrying them in my stomach."

Your stomach is where stuff you EAT goes, Nancy.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I have been hearing the usual BS about Princess Pelosi being a role model for young girls..

yet condi rice, a black woman (who'd I, as a white guy, would vote for for president), is villified..

[Kimmers]

I agree.... I find liberal women shrill,smug or angry and then there is Condi Rice. Do I need to say more?

[motherof 3]

Great point. No matter what you become if you are a Republican you can't possibly be a role model.

[harpo11]

Oh, are we blessed to have a miss goody two shoes, House Keeper Speaker. She sure can talk googoo baby talk really well. I'm sure the terrorists are really scared right now because Big Mama Pelosi is going after them with a mop and pail, that is after she dusts off those messy nasty republicans.

Maybe President Bush should send her in to clean out bin Laden's cave dressed in her apron and a can of Raid.

[Suzy Quzy]

Pelosi is a role model for pro abortion child killers that look nice and innocent!

[Obie Wan]

Ah ,ha ha ha,what a role model. I mean maybe she can be the leader of a Girl Scout troop. I can just hear it now.....ok troop today we have two choices, we can learn how to kill babies or we can learn how to turn America into a communist country.Which one do you want to earn a merit badge in ???

[Congressman Billybob]

Nancy C'Alesandro Pelosi grew up in an urban political machine in Baltimore where the only thing counted was winning. Votes were bought. Crooks were supported as allies. Charges were dismissed by compliant prosecutors and judges.

The D'Alesandro Machine there was as crooked as a dog's hind leg. It still is, now that it's two heartbeats away from the Presidency. And THIS is an example for all women? Not for my daughters and granddaughters. I expect more integrity from them, and they expect more of themselves.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Briton Hadden Spins in his Grave"

[goodnesswins]

Yeah....Mafiaso role model......Witch Role Model.....*itch Role Model......Ignoramus Role Model.....just to name a few

[jagrmeister]

The sad reality in all this is that Pelosi is an extremist, and though I am happy to see a woman ascend to majority leader, she is going to crash & burn. It will make it difficult for the next woman to assume that role.

[jonrick46]

For the left femmy rabbid demigods, there is no good woman unless she is spewing the mantra of the left. If you don't get in line like good trained trick dogs, you are sub human. I don't think that is much of a step up unless, of course, you are trying to avoid the puke.