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09:52 January 17th, 2008

Speaker Pelosi wants a Democratic uniter in White House

Posted by: Thomas Ferraro
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rtx4vov.jpgU.S. House of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, paused when asked what she’s looking for in the next president to help produce a more productive Congress.

Then she said with a grin and without naming names, “The first trait, I would say, is that we want it to be a Democrat who shares the values of the American people.”

Pelosi, who has had a number of spats with Republican President George W. Bush, added, “I put value on a president who can bring people together.”

But she does not intend to endorse a presidential candidate until her party selects its nominee.

Still, Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “Any measure of a great president, I think, should be one who has a vision, he or she … that takes us to a new horizon, thinking in a bigger and more entrepreneurial way about the future.”

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– Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque (Bush and Pelosi at a bill signing in December.)

2 comments so far

Nancy talks good sense, as usual.

I admire her guts in standing up to the worst western leader in history.

Bush, the disaster, at least is going sometime soon and Nancy can have her good riddance celebration party: that magnum of vintage bubbly she is no doubt saving for the hour the new president is sworn in, will taste like nectar.

I echo Nancy’s sentiments which she so elegantly expressed and wish her well.

- Posted by Keith M Warwick

Everyone is talking about the Reagan Comparison and I think its absolutely Barack Brilliant . What better a Unifying message to bring the 2 parties together as a Example of How we will do the best to accomplish the goals of our Nation. It hurts me as a Republican to hear Hillary always bashing the Republicans with the message of , ” she has been fighting the Republican right wing attack machine , and knows how to take us out and fight us back , and maybe its time that these wounds were healed rather than the cuts made deeper , maybe its going to take someone that is a Healer of the Fears that live within our Society , rather than a person who wants to constantly say the things that express the anger and rage that seems to be the message of a Clinton campaign , that keeps the fire of what divides the nation , and is keeping it from coming together to get the Work of the people done ???

All the News casters are talking , and all the Divide and Conquer Dems , are saying how can Barack Obama be using the Reagan Comparison as a Forward looking advancing advantage to be a better time than Bill Clintons Economic time , and they all Barack are wondering how you are going to woo the Dems over with this one , and I think its absolutely Brilliant Barack Brilliant , to say to the dems as well as everyone else , that ” Barack Believes that the common goal of Unity , is being able to understand that it took leaders like President Reagan and President Clinton to have the visions and the willingness to see each others Greatness , and build upon the Dreams of these skills of competitions by these competitors to bring about the advancements in of Society for the common goals of the American Dream of Prosperity , and I have the ability to build upon these Leaders historic contributions , to take us into the future with the dreams of MLK and LBJ , yes Hillary was right about it taking a President , but one who was able to be a Unifying president as was the case with LBJ working with MLK , but the point is that it takes a Unifying effort on the part of a President ,that has been the defining moment in American advancements , as well as all the leaders before and going forward , who were a part of the Process of advancing the American Dream , to take it to the next Level as the these people were the First in their time , so will we be the first to say yes we can do , yes we can see it , yes we can win it , The American Dream is alive in each and everyone of us and I know it you know it , and as these 2 past presidents have done , so can we together lead our plight into the future , to accomplish the Dreams of so many , because Unity is the Common goal of these 2 presidents , and as well is My goal , I want to reach across to the common wealth of America , break apart what separates us on the issues , and together we come together for the common goals of the Dream , the American Dream . God bless and let us see the greatness of being Unified , like Presidents Reagan and Clinton were in advancing Society so shall we be Unified with a Obama Presidency , to make yet another Historic mark in the ledger of the book of Dreams , that was Framed in 1776 , and has stayed together all these years for the benefit of so many Americans , we the people of the United States of America , shall go forward , we shall be Free we shall let no one stop us from being all that we can be , so help us God .

I just Love this feel partner , Take care and Let the wind be beneath your Aspirations .

- Posted by Tony

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