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Is George W. Bush a "nice man"? By many accounts, he is. That did not stop him from being vilified on the left. Maxine Waters led a crowd in a CHANT of "liar". Keith Olbermann: "Mr. Bush, you are a fascist." Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid never felt it necessary to refer to President Bush as a "nice man". Neither did Senator Obama. And they were right. It was, and is, irrelevant whether George W.Bush was/is a "nice man"--on a personal level. Among other things, that is totally in the eyes of the beholder. Before he became Vice President, Dick Cheney had pretty much a reputation of being a pleasant man. But would you not expect hisses and boos if you said that--before a leftist crowd--in the later days of the Bush Presidency? And why should politicians have it better than Alex Rodriguez, anyway? Was ot Nancy Pelosi right when she said that--referring to Iraq protesters--that "prots very American, and not something to be condemned" (or words to that effect). That was before she called vigorous protest UN-AMERICAN, in referring to the tea party protesters.
Was Ted Bundy (the serial killer) a "nice man"? Well, obviously not. But he evidently APPEARED to be a "nice man"--making it possible for him to murder all of toose women. It was IRRELEVANT whether Ted Bundy was "pleasant". His ACTIONS made him what he was. Is Nancy Pelosi a "nice lady"? Who cares? It is IRRELEVANT to any rational person's attitude toward her as Speaker of the House. You are stupid if you think otherwise. Yes, Tom Courn (Senator from Oklahoma) is a very stupid man (at least from the evidence of what he said about Nancy Pelosi, Fox News and his own crowd of citizens: the same kind of crowd, although less disruptive, than the crowd of protesters Pelosi called the essence of being "American"). Does this make Nancy Pelosi--whose intelligence most don't rate that high--is smarter than Tom Coburn? On this evidence, the answer is again "yes". (Note that I am NOT saying that Nancy Pelos the equivalent of a serial killer--even if she may be doing more harm to the country as a whole than Ted Bundy did. Ted Bundy obviously embodied evil on a personal level, and Nancy Pelosi does not. The point here is to ridicule the stupidity of Tom Coburn, as illustrated in more detail in the next paragraph. Surface "niceness" means nothing, as every con man proves.)
Yes, Tom Coburn was not done with his stupidity in that town hall meeting referred to in yesterday's article, where he misrepresented Fox News in pushing the Democratic "talking point" about mandatory health insurance. Coburn was not done. He went on to refer to Nancy Pelosi as a "nice lady". That brought a rather audible protest from the audience (not nearly as stupid as Coubrn, and recognizing Washington pap when they heard it). Then Coburn really stepped in it--going somewhere beyond stupid. He again referenced people "who watch Fox News" as having a slanted view of reality, and asked someone in the crowd--or maybe more than one someone--whether "you have ever met Nancy Pelosi" (suggesting that Coburn had, and found her a "nice lady"). Contrast that with Harry Reid, about a week ago, who had a crowd shout to him--referring to tea party people: "They should all DROP DEAD." Reid's response (which I don't endorse, even with regard to Peolsi): "You betcha."
The point is that how STUPID is it to suggest that a person's personal charm--assuming Pelosi has that, and she must have SOMETHING--should have anything to do with what you think of them as a politician. Women who Ted Bundy killed evidently thought he was "nice", when they met him. Every con man who ever lived has relied upon "personal charm". Do I need to "meet" Ted Bundy to have an opinion of what kind of man he was? Don't be silly. No, Nancy Pelosi is not Ted Bundy, or anything that evil. But the principle is the same. Personal charm is IRRELEVANT, and Tom Couurn has made one of the stupidest statements I have ever heard a politician make.
Was Nancy Pelosi "nice" when she called tea party protesters "UN-AMERICAN"? Was she "nice" when she made a speech so partisan and mean that it briefly led to the defeat of the Democrat/Paulson/Bush TARP bill (first, fraudulent, bailout bill for bands and Wall Street)? Nancy Pelosi has made some of the most meanly partisan statements of any politician in Washington. She has been at least as "mean" toward the Republican minority in the House as Tom DeLay was on the Republican side. Does it matter whether Pelosi is "personally nice"? Nope. Now I don't think Tom Coburn has any real knowledge of whether Pelosi is really "nice"--once you get below whatever surface "niceness" he was talking about. But I don't care whether, on a personal level, she is "nice" or not. It does not matter. She is ruining--or helping to ruin--the country. And she is doing so in the most autocratic and disrespectful--to the American people--way possible. There is a reason Nancy Pelois has an "approval rating" somewhere around 10% (serial killer level, even if she cannot be compared to a personally evil serial killer).
One of the grave mistakes John Adams made, as Vice President presiding over the Senate, was to push for an "official title" for the President: something like "His Majesty, the President". This caused John Adams, more responsible for the creation of the USA than probably any other man, to be labeled as a "royalist" corrupted by his stay in Britain (a label that would follow him for the rest of his political career). In his otherwise excellent biography, David McCullough said this was a "minor thing" (the question of what to call the President). I beg to differ. It was a major thing. There is a tradition in this country, from our very beginning, that politicians are no better than the rest of us. They are not "royal". Adams, himself, would eventually be called "bald, toothless and insane" (again, not to say I endorse that kind of vitriol, other than to note it is an American tradition). Pelois was right the first time. It is uniquely American to protest, and to seek a "redress of grievances".
Among other things, those remarks by Coburn were SEXIST (another example of my shameful feminism surfacing). It is actually condescending to suggest that Pelosi should be looked at differently than a man, and I think Coburn was clearly doing that.
Bottom line: from the evidence of this particular "meeting" with citizens of Oklahoma, Tom Coubrn is one STUPID Washington insider. He has been corrupted more by Washington than John Adams was ever corrupted by the British. It is not even accurate to state that conservatives (Fox News viewers, in the Washington world view of Coubrn) attack Pelosi PERSONALLY. It is her words, actions, and policies that conservatives attack (correctly). That it is somehow necessary to refer to her as a "nice lady" while doing that is a Tom Coubrn STUPIDITY not adopted by the smarter Pelosi, Reid, or even President Obama.
