Comments on: Pelosi Warns Clinton Supporters About “Scorched Earth” Policy

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:16:30 +0000

I thought recent polls showed that California supported Obama over Hillary by a big margin. Also SF (where Pelosi is from) went for Obama on Super Tuesday. Pelosi has some good reasons to throw her weight behind Obama (and has since Feb). For her to continue to be neutral shows that she does not want to have undue influence on super delegates' decisions. If Pelosi really wanted to lock-out Hillary, she could have thrown her support to Obama month ago.

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:55:41 +0000

I've often been a critic of Pelosi (and Reid for that matter) but in this case she is talking sense. As for the “Queen Bee syndrome”? Sounds like a Limbaugh inspired phrase to me.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:39:27 +0000

Pelosi has the Queen Bee syndrome & doesn't want another female higher on the alpha-girl DC ladder, and suffers from a total lack of authority to really resolve the question. Does she think she has the moral authority that Dean obviously lacks? Doubt it. And Reid is a cypher too.

Hillary has every right to go to the Convention Floor and have the superdelegates cast their votes in public—-often, like senile ex-Klansman Byrd of WV, in direct opposition to the way his constituents voted. Teddy did it in '80 and got praise from the Dem party. She got more votes than Obama, who cleverly stole the caucuses from states which will go Republican in November.

BTW, HBO reported that “Recount” had less than a million viewers, the fewest eyeballs any HBO TV movie has ever garnered—hilariously, this year the Dems are nominating the candidate with fewer popular votes!

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:18:08 +0000

Good for Nancy Pelosi. Nothing wrong with plain talk. Let's hope the audience is still capable of listening.