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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Pathetic. When the female pols start pulling out hankies looking for sympathy, you know they’re getting killed politically.
Would she be choked up if any conservative were raped, burned alive, or waterboarded to death?
They are constantly calling everyone racist. Yet they more than anyone believe that someone “not of their kind” is a lesser sort of human.
Oh, rats...I thought it said “Pelosi Chokes.”
I think it's something like that.
She’s taking acting lessons from Slick Willie?
Oh, don’t worry. We’ll always be NAZIs. White sheet-wearin’, racist, tea-baggin’, conspiracy nut NAZIs.
Her tear ducts have finally recovered from all her botox treatments?
I think what would help Nan with that choking problem is a big load of that special throat cream...
NOTE: I made this same post earlier on a similar thread:
“Those werent real tears.
Her many, many, many, many, many... (you get the idea)... facial surgeries have completely blocked her tear-ducts. She is forced to collect the moisture generated by her eyes in small bags located underneath and behind her eye sockets. On a side note, these bags are so located that they have made her unable to close her eyes, resulting in that perpetuual crazy cat woman or deer in headlights look.
In any event, she must purge these eye-drainage bags several times a day using a small sump pump located in the same portion of her skull where a normal person would have something called a frontal lobe.
The pumping device simply malfunctioned during the press conference and caused an unexpected purging of eye moisture, thats all.”
maybe she and her buddies should stop stirring the pot...
Wow, she says we have to “constantly balance freedom and safety” in what we say politically! And she says we will be responsible for any violence we incite!
Believe me they are planning something or at least hoping for it.
That’s nothing. I cry for the Republic every time I see this wicked traitorous wench.
There's no crying in politics.
“this balance between freedom and safety is one that we have to carefully balance,”
When you’re talking in the context of a health care bill, that is NOT the definition of a free country.
I follow the news pretty closely, was in the March on Washington, and there has been ZERO incitement to violence.
awww how sad. Did Barry give her something to choke on?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She is probably being disciplined by Obama. (Not kidding)
I noticed she dropped the talk about a public option fairly quickly and her demeanor has degraded each time I have seen her since.
Have you noticed that many socialist left dems have changed demeanor lately? (since the speech in joint congress)
Obama’s speech at the AFL-CIO was absolutely scary- more like someone in power in Germany in days gone by.
Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed.
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Yes , she is.
Folks, most Americans do not know what the left is.
If you talk to a liberal their favorite word is “dangerous”. You are “dangerous”, differing opinions are “dangerous”, all opposing politicians are “dangerous”.
We do not fully comprehend the degree to which they view most Americans as dangerous to the point of meriting oppression.
“awww how sad. Did Barry give her something to choke on?”
It was Congressman Anthony Weiner.
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