Pelosi on Letterman

[Stinky The Clown]

Fielding softballs from Dave. Its pretty clear to me where Dave stands on issues. He's leading her right along.

She seems pretty nervous for a person who may soon be the next Speaker and 3rd in line to the Presidency.

I really, really *want* to like her and cheer for her .... but she's making it hard.

[snowbear]

1. I've been saying on here for a loOOoong time...

I really like her personally, but she is a piss-poor speaker.

She stumbles on her words and she blinks continuously while talking. I'm praying like hell that Congressman Murtha is our speaker SOON!

[Rose Siding]

5. Murtha will be in the running for leader, not speaker

They are different positions. Nancy has caucus support and no challenge is planned.

[Hippo_Tron]

33. Jack Murtha is a great man but he's far too conservative on social issues

I have tremendous respect for the man, who had the guts to stand up and tell the truth before it was popular to do so. I think that it's no coincidence that since he spoke out, other high profile Democrats have been calling for us to get out of Iraq.

The problem is that he's a member of the Blue Dog coalition and on domestic issues, especially social issues, he's fairly conservative. The Speaker will be the leader of our party until we get someone in the White House and the leader of our party needs to be liberal on social issues or our base will abandon us.

Also, if Pelosi is denied the Speakership, I would be very concerned about the wrath of female voters. She is in line to become the highest ranking woman official in the history of the United States and if she is bucked for that opportunity, I think that the women in our party will have something to say about that.

[Rose Siding]

2. Is Hastert better on late night?

[Monkeyman]

4. Hell he can even talk during the day

www.john06.com
I am bias I am working against the fatman

[Rose Siding]

6. Really? Where did Hastert make an appearance?

[Monkeyman]

10. Texas news outlets and a right wing talk show there late night but its

Texas what do you want. Delay was with him too. We are keeping tabs on him. People in his district wants to hear about the land deal he got caught at

[snowbear]

8. OHhhhh.. you're working for that cutie patootie?

Go John Go! ~~~ :patriot:

[Monkeyman]

11. Yep we gave him the Veterans For Progress endorsement

[barb162]

17. Hastert is such a jerk

[Monkeyman]

3. Yep me too

A lot I post here come from her Aide sends me update on veterans issues
http://democraticleader.house.gov

[Stinky The Clown]

7. The crowd's sentiment was clear, too

Hardly a reliable sample or respresentative of the country, but they crowd cheered at the right times and was obviously anti-Bush if not pro Democrat. I'll take that.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I give her a LOT of points for her mention of the now-mostly-forgotten

second great line of Kennedy's 1960 Innaugaural speech, the line following the famous 'ask not what your country can do for you .... '

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

[Monkeyman]

12. She will make a grat Speaker she tear the replugs a new one

[snowbear]

18. Monkey... who are you talking about?

She who?

It must be getting late.. Zzzzzzzzzzz

[barb162]

16. She's really good!

[samsingh]

13. she actually did pretty well

i still don't understand, though, why Democrats always seem so quiet and nervous. they should be standing tall and yelling that the repugs are destroying America and need to be thrown out for the good of the country.

[snowbear]

19. Obviously you didn't watch Paul Hackett on Hardball today!

If you didn't see it.... and you think Democrats are QUIET.... you'd better find that clip of him on Hardball today.

=WOW=

You'll be very happy you watched it!

[samsingh]

25. good point - i watched it after Letterman

and Paul was fantastic!

it felt emotionally good to hear him tell the truth and not put up with any crap.

[Donna Zen]

26. Maybe the poster was watching Begala with Wolfie

Begala hit a new low. He was shaking his head in agreement as JC Watts bashed Dems. And...and...Begala said, "Well national security isn't my party's forte." Huh? Tell it to Jack Reed.

Anyway, I want to cheer Pelosi on. She's better than (write republican name)__________________. Ya know.

Could Dems please give Begala a tutorial with Paul Hackett on fighting back. Or how about sending him a list of "Fighting Dems." Anything.

[Cha]

27. With dems like begala speaking

for them who needs rw enemies? Is he another freakin' plant?

[Arugula Latte]

30. That was fucking INVIGORATING!

I want ALL my Dems out there ripping these rightwing extremists a new one! :bounce:

[alfredo]

34. Hackett and Pelosi both did great. The forums were different

and called for different approaches. Pelosi hit all the points well, she said it calmly but with strength. Hackett was in a situation that demanded he took no prisoners. In both cases I can say they did us proud.


Remember Republicans know power and how to get it, but they do not know how to govern. Because they can't govern they cannot hold onto power in a democratic system. To hold that power they have to destroy the democratic system.

[PointAndLaugh]

14. Pelosi is a joke.

One ugly, UGLY, joke. And I mean her whiny centrist/I-wanna-be-republican politics. Not her too-many-plastic-surgeries face... although...

[Stinky The Clown]

15. Glen ........

..... izzat you?

[cboy4]

20. I'm always amused by weak debaters....always resorting to personal

attacks because their little pea brains can't think of any other way to formulate a thought.

"UGLY", "...plastic-surgeries...", blah, blah blah.

Sorry if I offended you with the pea brain comment.

If it did offend you, I promise I'll try to come up with a different vegetable to describe your, ummm, "intelligence."

[Evergreen Emerald]

24. seriously?

Have you ever called your Dick Cheney "ugly," or do you only reserve critiques on physical appearance for females?

[cboy4]

28. I think we both know the answer to that, even though I know you were

most likely asking a rhetorical question.

[cboy4]

21. Even if you think she's not a good communicator, why can't you cheer

for her?

I mean, it's one thing to not feel she's a great communicator, or that she seems too timid, or not the best candidate for Speaker or whatever.....

But I think we should all cheer for our people.

I don't believe she's necessarily the best candidate, but I sure cheer for her.

And I thought she did just fine on Letterman.

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. Actually once she got going

I never heard her sound better.

[cboy4]

29. Yes, I agree....she did a good job considering the

circumstances.

[CTyankee]

23. Hey, remember when Clinton got booed at the Dem Nat. Convention

sometime back in the '80s? He gave a long, boring speech and his fellow Dems kept booing to get him to quit and he finally did.

Hard to believe, isn't it, cuz now I'd listen to him recite the alphabet. Somewhere along the way he got his groove. I hope Nancy gets her groove too.

[karlrschneider]

31. Maybe I was a little pickled but I thought she did pretty well, actually

She may not be Madame Sophocles but she made sense and didn't blather incoherently like Chimp does...
:eyes:

[Stinky The Clown]

32. To be clear .....

I thought she did okay, but not great. If I were to read a transcript, her words were, indeed, worth cheering for. It was her demeanor and delivery. To my eyes, she appeared uncomfortable and her voice seems to quaver.

I am very pro Pelosi and think a great deal of her. I also have the DU-inflicted scars from defending her from time to time, including her last(?) stint on Fat Timmy's Republican Hour.

I am PERFECTLY happy to see her continue as Leader and, when we win, as Speaker.

That said, the performance I saw on Letterman last night was less than I'd hoped for.