QOTD: Obama
by digby
Obama hailed Pelosi as “one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country’s ever seen.”
“Nancy is not always the best on a cable show or with a quick sound bite or what have you,” Obama said. “But her skill, tenacity, toughness, vision, is remarkable. Her stamina, her ability to see around corners, her ability to stand her ground and do hard things and to suffer unpopularity to get the right thing done I think stands up against any person that I’ve observed or worked directly with in Washington during my lifetime.”
He would know. She had to herd a bunch of Democratic cats and thwart the wingnut freakshow and she was amazingly effective.
Just look at how John Boehner and Paul Ryan did...
Update: Reporters on my TV are all saying that she's not good at the job because she isn't good at entertaining them on TV and is also "polarizing" (because Republicans like to portray older, liberal women as witches.)
I hear Paul Ryan is available so maybe the Democrats could recruit him to please these people. The media worshipped Ryan like he was Jesus Christ. Of course, he couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag after he'd spent his career being a half-assed, innumerate policy wonk. But he was dreamy. And that's all that really counts.
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