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Nancy Pelosi applauds Bobby Rush’s ‘courage’ for wearing a hoodie on House floor
Yahoo! News ^ | March 29, 2012 | Chris Moody

Posted on 03/29/2012 10:00:56 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi applauded Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who was admonished Wednesday for wearing a "hoodie" sweatshirt during a speech in memory of Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was killed in February.

"I think that Bobby Rush deserves a great deal of credit for the courage he had to go to the floor in a hoodie, knowing that he would be told he was out of order," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "He quickly left the floor, he wasn't contentious about it. But he made his point. He called attention to a situation in this country that needs to be addressed in a way a man in a suit and tie might not be able to do."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackpanther; bobbyrush; bobbyrushhoodie; hoodie; pelosi; pelosihoodie; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 03/29/2012 10:01:04 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Looks like he’ll be gettin’ some tonight..


2 posted on 03/29/2012 10:02:18 AM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: Free ThinkerNY

YEAH...that’s a Marxists idea of “Courage”....wearing a hoodie....they are idiots.


3 posted on 03/29/2012 10:03:05 AM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Nice to hear Nancy Pelosi (D-Castro District) chime in on this.


4 posted on 03/29/2012 10:03:32 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Those Republicans are politicizing this event.


5 posted on 03/29/2012 10:04:19 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Did the revenant witch’s head bobble as her blank eyes wandered around the room? The pustule on the Potamac is the social and personality sump tank for a population of three hundred million people.


6 posted on 03/29/2012 10:05:39 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I think we ought to listen to Alinsky." - Gov. G. Romney (R), father of Bishop Willard M. Romney.)
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
Looks like he’ll be gettin’ some tonight..

The worst schizophrenic couldn't be *that* desperate.

7 posted on 03/29/2012 10:05:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter Is No Longer The Worst President To Have Served In My Lifetime.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gimme a break.
Bobby Rush is a former member of the Black Panthers.
It is perfectly correct to boot him out.


8 posted on 03/29/2012 10:05:41 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Nancy Pelosi has proven once again that she is a nitwit.

But then we all knew that to be a fact.

9 posted on 03/29/2012 10:06:36 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She is such an idiot. The Lunatics really are running the asylum.


10 posted on 03/29/2012 10:08:23 AM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: goodnesswins

These idiots need to grow up...and remember where they are!


11 posted on 03/29/2012 10:09:18 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh, Good God! The woman has run bloody mad-surely she must be certifiable...


12 posted on 03/29/2012 10:12:14 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
situation in this country that needs to be addressed

Is she talking about the situation of having more Communists per capita in the Congress of the United States than were in the jungles of Viet Nam? We dropped napalm on little commie bastards in black pajamas who weren't as invested in Marxist Socialism as today's Demonrat Party.

13 posted on 03/29/2012 10:12:32 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I would call it stupidity, not courage; but then, I’m not a liberal....


14 posted on 03/29/2012 10:13:16 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'll cling to my religion and guns till they're pried from my cold dead fingers!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This Trayvon Martin stuff is getting out of hand.


15 posted on 03/29/2012 10:14:37 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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Maybe someone should show some courage and speak with a British accent to relieve all the racial tension around the deaths of the two British tourists at the hands of another black teen.

Perhaps a container of crickets would serve as a great audio-visual aid.

Then someone else could wear a WWII uniform to show courage for the Veteran who's wife was beaten to death and he was hospitalized because of the attack by another black teen.

More crickets!

and then someone could wear a badge to show courage for yet another policeman shot to death by another black teen. IIRC, this makes about 12 LEO's slain by black youths just in the past 5 years.

More crickets!

And all of this is just in central Florida in the past month.

16 posted on 03/29/2012 10:17:02 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I wish she’d wear one on the House floor except I’d like to see her wear one backwards, so that the hoodie part would cover her face.


17 posted on 03/29/2012 10:17:42 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Alinsky is proud of today’s democrat party.


18 posted on 03/29/2012 10:22:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
At this point in her life it is apparently WAY too late for her to learn that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
19 posted on 03/29/2012 10:22:54 AM PDT by WayneS (Comments now include 25% more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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Pelosi didn’t mind Robert Bird’s hoodie either.....


20 posted on 03/29/2012 10:23:09 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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