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| The Ghost of Susan B. Anthony | |
| 2012-08-09 | |
| House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women's Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House. Stay off the Shrooms, Nan!
Did they say that in unison or one at a time? A video recently posted on Youtube shows Pelosi speaking in May describing her first meeting with President Bush in the White House after becoming part of the Democratic House leadership. In the video Pelosi says, "He's (Bush) saying something to the effect of we're so glad to welcome you here, congratulations and I know you'll probably have some different things to say about what is going on--which is correct. But, as he was saying this, he was fading and this other thing was happening to me." Shrooms will do that to you. So I hear. "My chair was getting crowded in," said Pelosi. "I swear this happened, never happened before, it never happened since." Now we know The Wicked Witch of the West's problem. She not only hears voices, she does what they tell her to. "My chair was getting crowded in and I couldn't figure out what it was, it was like this," she said. My chair would be crowded too, with all those people trying to sit in it at the same time. "And then I realized Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, you name it, they were all in that chair, they were," said Pelosi. "More than I named and I could hear them say: 'At last we have a seat at the table.' And then they were gone." More people than she could name? That's probably not too many. This was not the only time Pelosi has told this story. On June 6 of this year she told it during an event celebrating her 25 years of political service. Pelosi has also told the story when speaking at colleges, including at Trinity Washington University's commencement on May 20, 2012. Pelosi's website contains a transcript of the tale as related in her 2005 commencement address at Goucher College in Baltimore. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were activists in the women's rights movement during the mid to late 1800's. The Susan B. Anthony List, which works for pro-life women's leadership in government, uses her as a namesake. The organization claims Anthony and Stanton were strong pro-life supporters. I know she's nuts but I didn't know she was this far gone. | |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #8 I've had some flashbacks; nothing on this level, though... |
| Posted by: Raj 2012-08-09 23:29 |
| #7 It is a known fact that spirits are often with Pelosi. Did you see her booze bill for her Air Force flights between California and DC? |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-08-09 23:14 |
| #6 Next time, Nancy, pay attention... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-08-09 19:19 |
| #5 Botox poisoning maybe? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-08-09 18:18 |
| #4 advanced syphilis |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-08-09 18:05 |
| #3 Aren't hallucinations one of the symptoms of Alzheimer's? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-08-09 17:59 |
| #2 Nest time you visit the continent, take me with you Ptah. Colmar is lovely any time of the year. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-08-09 17:08 |
| #1 And the pro-lifers are very correct, if one bothers to read everything these women wrote. They knew EXACTLY why men wanted abortions and knew where such a society would go. While I was visiting my mom in France, I read an article in Paris Match that I regret not filing: it was an interview with the leader of the "feminist" movement in France. She was extremely PO'ed about the way that the "change the whole system/take no prisoners!" attitude in the US movement severely hampered the French movement in terms of membership and persuasiveness. Her argument was that the French woman wanted a fair shake in employment, but no part in changing the way men and women interacted outside of work, and so didn't want to join a movement that they thought would change the latter, even if it improved affairs in the former. The frenchMEN are idiots, and the FrenchWomen are as sane, if not saner, than the individuals sitting in the silos of our ICBMs. If Descartes was ressurrected and shown how France had changed, he'd give a gallic shrug and consider winning half the population to rational thinking as "not too shabby". |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-08-09 15:50 |