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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And I do enjoy saying it.
Maybe she and the weeping windbag Sen. George Voinivich should get together and have a good cry.
She is a Mussolini wannabe.
What a load of Crocktears
Pelosi is simply telegraphing what the ‘rats plan to do, i.e., further plans of violence in order to counter resistance against the ‘rat agenda.
They have already committed violence against some; and, they always accuse their opponents of tactics that they themselves are already using or plan to use.
So, my friends, like the BSA motto says, “Be prepared.”
Amen to that. They know the majority of the country is turning on them. Many Dems are running away from Obama DeathCare.
Keep calling and faxing.
So, here we go again—anyone who disagrees with the (Communist) party line is a hateful, violent menace. Man, these guys only have one page in their playbook.
LOL
There is a fine line between evil and demented. She crosses it with reckless abandon but is too dumb to know it. It will be her downfall.. hers and many of the Dems.
Beer mug clink
BumP!
No, we won’t.
III
Maybe I am paranoid, but this seems like foreshadowing...
Something planned? Things are not going the Dems’ way right now. These last couple of weeks have not been good.
Looks like the dems are setting up a victim to take the hit so Pelosi can say I told you so and then can "carefully balance" i.e. censor "this balance between freedom and safety"
Hey, I'm all for that. Do you think you could take responsibility for what YOU have said first? Do you think YOU can lead by example?
She must have hired an acting coach.
Because her swallowing muscles have been stretched up to her forehead by multiple face lifts. Now she has to blink to swallow her food.
she speaks as if her words were golden.
STUFF IT YOU NAZI
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