Pelosi 'sad' over Bush's Iraq representation

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/pelosi-sad-over-bushs-iraq_28.html

Pelosi 'sad' over Bush's Iraq representation

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Tuesday she feels "sad" President Bush blamed insurgent violence on al Qaeda while he dismissed notions Iraq is in a civil war.

"My thoughts on the president's representations are well-known," Pelosi told reporters while meeting with Deputy Italian Minister Francesco Rutelli. "The 9/11 Commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again."

[lebkuchen]

1. "sad" -- a synonym for "pathetic"

[JudyM]

4. She said *she* feels sad... not that chimpie's statements are sad. This is curious.

Maybe it makes her sad that the American people are still being lied to. It's a curious use of the word.

[lebkuchen]

8. It's something a parent/adult would say to an undisciplined child

You know, the basic "I message,"..."I feel sad when you..."

Is Pelosi using child psychology on Chimpie?

[JudyM]

16. Maybe she wants to be sure he understands. But he won't... n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

2. Damn, she's good!

I like her more every time she opens her mouth.

[NMDemDist2]

3. ROFL-- "sad" = lame@ss loser n/t

[virgdem]

5. Just watched MSNBC...

where they proceeded to disect Pelosi's comment. I feel "sad" for them that they don't get the subtext of what Pelosi really means when she says that she is "sad" about Bush's inability to grasp reality. I immediately understood that she really meant "sad" to mean pathetic. What we have here is the MSM's failure to communicate in any meaningful way what the public needs to hear about the failures and excesses of this administration. Really, too "sad" for us.

[caledesi]

6. Good point! Now I feel guilty for all the times I heard Tom Daschle

say 'it saddens me'....I get it now.

Let's focus on the thrust of her statements. She is calling him "on the carpet" for still lying! I am glad she brought up al Qaeda and 9/11.

[xchrom]

7. oh they get it -- they're just not going to present it the

way any literate adult would hear or read it.

[Qutzupalotl]

12. Then let's use their framing...

It's "troubling".

[Lisa]

13. yes -- when my mom used that tone of voice ...

... I soon learned that if I ignored her, she would almost instantaneously ramp up to a tongue-lashing I'd remember for a long time. When I talked to other kids, I learned that their moms could do it too!

[arewenotdemo]

9. Was this a misreading of Bush's statement?

The Commission would have dealt with the lack of plausibility of an Iraqi connection to 9/11, but how would it have dealt with al Qaeda-affiliated bombings in Iraq today?

Bush obviously wishes to deny the central facts and reality of the conflict and to place the blame entirely on foreign jihadists. That doesn't mean that jihadists aren't contributing to it.

Sorry if I'm missing something.

[Kagemusha]

10. No one cares anymore.

What Bush said may be correct in some vague, limit technical sense but is so besides the point that no one's willing to even treat it with minimal respect for reality, because they feel Bush has none himself.

[arewenotdemo]

11. The Politics of Shame?

Sounds good to me.

[ECH1969]

14. It's not a big deal if dems twist words on intel

But, team Bush is worse then the devil so it is a big deal if they do it.

[CJCRANE]

17. * knows exactly what he is doing

when he blames the insurgency on al-Qaeda and Pelosi is right to call him on it.

[MadMaddie]

15. Ah...but you see Nancy is saying that it is clear that * is not

voluntarily going to participate in a bipartisan way...she is acknowledging that the gloves are coming off...if he wants to continue to play his childish games with our soldiers lives then she will have no choice but to push the investigations....

She is the right woman at the right time for the role of Speaker of the House...

[Laelth]

19. Agreed.

I continue to be impressed by her. Baltimore is an old, Democratic town, and Speaker-elect Pelosi learned how to play politics from some of the best. I'm proud to have her leading the party.

:dem:

-Laelth

[humbled_opinion]

18. The problem for B*sh is that the facts are getting in the way. n/t