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Nancy Pelosi - 'most powerful Italian since Caesar'
SF Gate ^
| Jan 5, 2006
| Leah Garchik
Posted on 01/06/2007 7:32:14 PM PST by hfartalot
If Bill Clinton was Elvis, Hillary was the Statue of Liberty, inspired by Pelosi's triumph (more about that in a future story) and welcoming the huddled masses, who were pushing each other out of the way to take pictures with her. At night, we gathered at the National Building Museum for a celebration concert and Democratic Party fundraiser. Filmmaker Peter Kaufman, a friend of Christine Pelosi's, set the tone of the evening's festivities. He quoted someone else he'd heard that day: "She's the most powerful Italian since Caesar.''
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Maryland; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caesar; communists; defeatocrats; democrats; nancypelosi; palomino; pelosis; pelosisalad; sanfrannan
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To: Yogafist
My first thought as well...I'd say Mussolini was more powerful...
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:39:02 PM PST
by
MSF BU
To: DeFault User
I'm partial to Granny Botox.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:40:54 PM PST
by
grimalkin
(Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. - Winston Churchill)
To: hfartalot
An unwittingly revealing quote. For the Rats, it's all about power for its own sake; the "issues" are merely tools with which to demagogue the ignorant masses.
To: Bernard Marx
To: hfartalot
Oh, I don't know. I'll bet there's a USSC judge of Italian ancestry who could slap her down in a NY minute, if the occasion called for it.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:41:38 PM PST
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: proudofthesouth
"She's the most powerful Italian since Caesar.''"
BARF
So, history has already concluded Our Lady of Plastic Surgery has attained more lasting achievements than Lorenzo De Medici?
Sounds like egregious revisionist history to me.
Whatever she will usher in will certainly be no modern day Renaissance.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:42:02 PM PST
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
To: conservative in nyc
How about giving Pelosi a new nickname? "Il Duce."
To: hfartalot
What a bunch of horse crap!
Anyone hear of the founder of Bank of America?
What about Ioccoca, former Chairman of Chysler?
There have been lots of Italians in USA history who have made positive and important contributions.
Anyone hear of Alioto, former Mayor of SF, consiglorie to Al Davis, Oakland Raiders Owner?
Pelosi is the rind of the orange. Nothing more. I and many choose the pulp and not the skin.
We have a Broad who cannot control chairmen or legislation (there is the Senate) and she is considered powerful?
MSM stinks.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:43:01 PM PST
by
Prost1
(Fair and Unbiased as always!)
To: hfartalot
Is this from the "Onion"?
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:43:06 PM PST
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: Brilliant
Yep, and we all know how that one turned out.
To: hfartalot
Yeah, sure, and I suspect that's exactly what they say about every semi-successful semi-Eyetalian in every country south of the border. Wasn't Evita Peron Eyetalian? The Age of Parochialism, the Age of Ignorance.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:44:53 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: doc1019
I think Tony Soprano would beg to differ!!!!And quite a few popes...
To: hfartalot
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:45:23 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: GladesGuru
I'm sure if she and Hitlery had their way they would usher in a holocaust for conservatives only.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:45:25 PM PST
by
proudofthesouth
(Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
To: hfartalot
All Hail Queen Nancy!
(that should be her nickname, folks; let's make it stick.)
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:49:21 PM PST
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: proudofthesouth
"She's the most powerful Italian since Caesar.''
Beware the Ides of March Nancy.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:50:59 PM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: hfartalot; Millee; carlr; Allegra; PaulaB; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; ...
Eh...
Make that Lucrezia Borgia...
She sure has poisoned my outlook on the health of the Republic!
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:51:13 PM PST
by
Bender2
(I am off politics until Nancy moves to Tehran... There to be taken straight to the ever after!)
To: hfartalot
I'm pretty sure there have been just a couple of Italian Popes since then also that would qualify.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:51:26 PM PST
by
Dr Snide
(vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
To: hfartalot
More like Madame Neroni.
Has anyone read Trollope's great parliamentary series of novels? The first two, Phineas Phinn and Phineas Redux? One of the characters who pursues our handsome hero is an Italian widow named Madame Neroni, with a little boy, whom she calls "the last of the Neros."
Nancy Pelosi is Madame Neroni.
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:52:41 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: hfartalot
Silly me, I thought Bela Pelosi was Hungarian. Was Dracula Eyetalian too?
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posted on
01/06/2007 7:55:14 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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