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Pelosi chokes up
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 9/17/9 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Posted on 09/17/2009 12:35:24 PM PDT by SmithL

For the first time anyone can remember, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi teared up at a press conference this morning in response to an off-beat question about the current state of political discourse.

Visibly struggling to retain her composure, Pelosi recalled a time in San Francisco when emotions ran out of control, obviously referring to the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by an angry former supervisor Dan White on Nov. 27, 1978.

"We are a free country, and this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to carefully balance," Pelosi began. Then out of nowhere, startling the reporters gathered at her weekly press conference, she almost instantly teared up as she recalled the unnamed events long ago in San Francisco.

"I saw this, myself, in the late '70s in San Francisco," she said. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it created a climate in which violence took place."

Finally regaining control, she expressed a wish that "we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made," and "take responsibility" for what they say, "because "the ears that it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume."

Pelosi's comments come after the House chastized Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting out, "You lie," during President Obama's address to Congress last week, part of an insurgent politics of anger that is gaining ground in public discourse.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2flaky4words; cantstandtheheat; getoutofthekitchen; palomino; pelosi; sanfranciscovalues
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1 posted on 09/17/2009 12:35:24 PM PDT by SmithL
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Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 12:35:48 PM PDT by SmithL (The Golden State demands all of your gold)
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To: SmithL

The botox has gone to her brain.


3 posted on 09/17/2009 12:36:24 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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She can dish it out but does not like it when it is directed to her. Boo Hoo


4 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:19 PM PDT by Delphster
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To: SmithL

awww how sad. Did Barry give her something to choke on?


5 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:22 PM PDT by o_zarkman44 (Obama is the ultimate LIE!)
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To: SmithL

There is no balance between Freedom and safety. Freedom outweighs ALL. We can take care of safety ourselves.


6 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:30 PM PDT by SandWMan ( A riot ist an ugly sing, und, I sink it's about time zat ve had vone!)
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To: SmithL

...she probably got word she’s on an ACORN tape....*grins*


7 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:35 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SmithL

“I saw this, myself, in the late ‘70s in San Francisco,”

The world has seen it too, Tiananmen Square.

We won’t go so easily Nancy.


8 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:38 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: SmithL

9 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:41 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! FairTaxNation.com)
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To: SmithL

The Weeper of the House.


10 posted on 09/17/2009 12:38:52 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: SmithL

In more ways than one.

Why the immense sympathy for a “gay” movement which would just as soon turn angry at a moment’s notice and throw Nancy under the bus for some insignificant gaffe?


11 posted on 09/17/2009 12:39:36 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: SmithL

Nanny has “issues”. Lots of “issues”. She needs to hang it up. She’s in over her head with all this “hopey changey” communist stuff.


12 posted on 09/17/2009 12:39:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Nanzi could end it all if she just KILLED THE BILL.
The “violence” she is witnessing is America’s reaction to the Democrat agenda.


13 posted on 09/17/2009 12:40:10 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Huskrrrr

The front half is probably hard as a dried bugger, the back half is like a gooey snot ball.


14 posted on 09/17/2009 12:40:43 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (ImpeachZero)
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To: SmithL

Maybe she should stop calling us teabaggers and call us Americans instead.


15 posted on 09/17/2009 12:40:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Doogle
...she probably got word she’s on an ACORN tape....*grins*

Could be, could be. And she knows the wheels on the bus go round and round.
16 posted on 09/17/2009 12:40:53 PM PDT by Overtaxed Patriot (History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SmithL

So many semi-pornographic quips, so little time.


17 posted on 09/17/2009 12:41:02 PM PDT by traderrob6
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“...an off-beat question about the current state of political discourse.”

Do not underestimate the press role here. If you ever have the nauseating experience of watching a dem news conference on C-span, it isn’t just soft ball questions.

The press encourages the dems to go as far as possible in villainizing the opposition. It usually reaches a point where the dem realizes they are being asked to say something really crazy and they politely deflect.

Pelosi isn’t smart enough to do that, she believes her own left wing press.


18 posted on 09/17/2009 12:41:09 PM PDT by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: SmithL

Snif, snif, I remember my little dog, Petey....he got hit by a car one day....(cue sad violin music)

See, we all can make up sob stories.


19 posted on 09/17/2009 12:41:44 PM PDT by SandWMan ( A riot ist an ugly sing, und, I sink it's about time zat ve had vone!)
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To: cripplecreek
Maybe she should stop calling us teabaggers and call us Americans instead.

You mean we're no longer Nazi's?
20 posted on 09/17/2009 12:42:00 PM PDT by Overtaxed Patriot (History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. - Thomas Jefferson)
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