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August 14, 2008 | 5:37 pm
Nancy Pelosi gets pilloried at AJU
Posted by Danielle Berrin
In lieu of the praise one might expect in a room full of women and the ceiling-smashing Nancy Pelosi, insults were hurled towards the stage.
“Traitor!” screamed one woman. “Liar!” shouted another. One man’s high-volume, breakneck rampage got him physically removed from the room. His diatribe, though nearly indecipherable, left Pelosi stone-faced but shaken.
Confronted by a surprising outburst of California’s politically liberal constituency, Pelosi, on a break from her post as the first woman Speaker of the House – the third highest office in the nation – landed at American Jewish University on Aug. 11 to promote her new book, “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters.” Faced with an acrimonious audience, one of Congress’s most outspoken critics of the Bush administration was lambasted for opposing impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush.
During a 90-minute Q&A with AJU’s president, Robert Wexler, nearly 400 people listened as Pelosi discussed her childhood, her unexpected rise to power and the need for more women in government. When Wexler pressed her on a question about Congress’s dismally low 9% approval rating, Pelosi defended herself and her colleagues. This prompted an irate audience member to accuse Pelosi of shirking her constitutional responsibility by not impeaching Bush for the deceptive reasoning that started the Iraq war.
Pelosi dismissed the outburst. “I have complete comfort with the frustration. I’m from the streets,” she said.
But when several other people rose from their seats in paroxysms of protest, Pelosi was forced onto the defensive.
“I take an oath of office to uphold the constitution of the United States. Don’t tell me I don’t do that,” she snapped. “Why don’t you go picket the Republicans in Congress that will not allow us to have a vote on the war?”
It was the puzzling part of the whole evening: why L.A. liberals have allowed themselves to be charmed by people like Karl Rove (who appeared a few months back) but were hostile to Nancy Pelosi, who purports to represent their interests.
By the time the crowd quieted down, Pelosi looked deflated.
“What else do you have for me?” she asked a bereft Wexler, who refused to confront her with the issue on everybody’s mind.
Despite her book’s message of empowerment to America’s women, Pelosi was pelted as if she were a harlot.
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This is why the republicans will win this November!!!!
It shows the stupidity of the left (and I am on that side), to attack their own, and to be like whiny children whenever they don’t get what they want. As Pelosi said and as anyone with half a brain and eyes can see, Republicans up, down, and sideways have caused one mess after another, yet people come to whine to the Democratic leader. It is just moronic and beyond unfair. These people should be ashamed of themselves.
Yet Karl Rove they fall like naive little children when he feeds their egos with some half-truth, and this SOB gets treated with respect. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting
It’s silly to blame it on Carl Rove.
These pro-impeachment people are clueless. They don’t have any charges for Bush. He went to Congress before the invasion of Iraq and got Congressional approval. Are the Senate democrats going to impeach themselves after they impeach Bush?
Personalities over princpals and taking the cowardly position of holding others when not 100% perfect as a lessor being so you appear to be a higher being defines a coward. Only the courageous are able to rise above this.
Comment by the Levite Line “Republicans up, down, & sideways have caused one mess after another”. What a moronic statement. Is that supposed to mean choose Decomrates because they are pefect? Yeah, right.
Comment by Charles 8/14 10:53pm nailed it exposing the Senate Democrates pro-impeachment hyporicy.
Ah. More neocon-nazi plants in the audience, count on it.
No worries, Nancy! We’ll get the Republican hate-mongers in the end.
And frankly, the Republicans HAVE caused much of the messes in the U.S.
In the last 40 years, we’ve had 26 years of Republican presidencies, and most recently, we had majority Republicans in the House and Senate, to boot—oddly, that’s when the country REALLY started to decline.
Count me as an ex-Republican who sees the light, and misses Barry Goldwater desperately.
What is moronic, or as I suspect with right-wingers, a purposefully case of completely off-base mind-reading, is “Enlightened’s” statement “Is that supposed to mean choose Decomrates because they are pefect? Yeah, right.”
I am not looking for a Messiah, I don’t expect perfection. Besides in pagan/Christian America, perfection means nice hair and teeth, and other external qualities, like say…uuuh… white skin. No I know and anyone not only with half a brain, but more significantly,...a heart knows that Democrats, in general, care. That is why Pelosi and others have to take the guff, because you are wasting your time and energy getting angry, complaining, or criticizing Republicans. They don’t give a damn! Well I have figured this out a long time ago and I’m hoping some others could smell the coffee and see the light, because frankly it is blatantly obvious.
I know it has been a while, but I was just noticing another completely twisted and 180 degree inversion of truth, or at least close to 180 degrees. What I am referring to (and again I will cut and paste it here) is: “taking the cowardly position of holding others when not 100% perfect as a lessor being so you appear to be a higher being defines a coward” I believe this so-called enlightened (LOL) person means, arrogant or self-righteous, but none of what “enlightened” described would be defined as coward except by a right-winger, who as usual twist or completely invert the objective truth. By the time the rest of us have picked our jaws off the ground and shook our heads to throw these inverted truths off, they’ve elected a George W. Bush or an Adolf Hitler (yes, Hitler was elected, in a democracy; kind of like Hamas’s election in Gaza) And no, liberals, I don’t think it is ignorance. I think most of these ____________ know exactly what they are doing. Why do they do what they do? Now that is a more interesting question to me.
As far as “appearing to be a higher being” compared to what I have seen and heard from the Republicans, going back to the impeachment of Bill Clinton, does not require much, to feel morally superior. These self-righteous hypocrites run for gov’t, saying ‘gov’t in and of itself is bad’, and then they prove it by screwing things up; yes, up, down, and sideways. Democrats, with few exceptions, if any, do not think, nor believe this way. Gov’t is as good or bad as the beliefs and attitudes of the people in it. The difference frankly between Republicans and Democrats is night and day.
Coward?!?! Hah! At least when you start your usual “name-calling”, at least try a name that has a grain of truth.
she said she’s “from the streets”? really?!
Nixon accepted, so-called Republican “corruption” (Iran contra, Iraq war) seems to be about protecting US national interests. Even the current agitation on the left over the torture memos does not suggest anyone gained from the lawyering or from the so-called torture, except perhaps the people of LA who possibly are still here owing to thwarted terrorism.
“Democratic “corruption”, on the other hand, seems usually to be about self-interest, as in money, power, etc (Clinton, Feinstein, Pelosi herself).
So, why IS the left so venal, self-righteous and vengeful?
she has a nice pullover.
I can’t believe she said she’s from “the streets”
Not a big fan of Pelosi. She is the definition of a cancer to our country.
great…
to Sarah you right.
Those of you who try to blame republicans are just as stupid as those who blame the democrats. You just don’t get it do you? They are the same! Divide and conquer is the motto you ignorant morons! Take the red pill! Pelosi is a moranno jew from one of argentina’s largest jewish families. She loves Israel and supports all of their crimes in Palestine and around the world! Do the research and learn the truth!
Glad you acclaimed that there’s a aberration amid an adherent of the Roman Catholic acceptance and a non-RC Christian. Canon law is absolutely absolute on the responsibilities of the faithful. Pelosi has awfully flouted these, authoritative a apology of the acceptance she claims to hold.
Brown, who is nominally CofE, can’t be accepted to attach to RC moral theology, and Canon law alone applies to him in actual bound and angled ways. Instead, he is advised with the account due to a adopted dignitary and Protestant believer.
Pelosi, as a (col)lapsed Roman Catholic have to access into a atoning approach to accretion the adroitness of adaptation with her declared faith. Or she could leave the RC Church, which will apparently be what she does eventually. Her political ability agency added to her than the action of her soul.