You go Madam Speaker!!: Pelosi tells the 2 children in the sandbox to simmer down

[Tropics_Dude83]

At least someone hasn't resorted to our frontrunner's tactics of calling each other Ken Star clones or monsters or worse than John Mccain.

I think the adults in the party should tell the two candidates to stop trying to destroy the party.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/08/MNDGVG0PL.DTL

The campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination took a rancorous turn Friday, prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call on the leading Democrats to cease their bickering - or risk hurting the party's chances of retaking the White House.

"I would encourage both of them, as I have, to remember we have to keep our eyes on the prize, which is the general election in November," Pelosi said Friday at a luncheon in New York sponsored by Lifetime Networks and the Hearst Corp., parent company of The Chronicle.

Her comments came on the day that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, resigned from the campaign after calling New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster" in an interview with a Scottish newspaper.

Obama's camp, meanwhile, is still seething over Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson's accusation that Obama was "imitating Ken Starr" - the independent prosecutor who investigated the Clintons in the 1990s - by urging the release of her tax returns.

Pelosi, who has stayed resolutely neutral in the race, said it was time for the candidates to cool the overheated rhetoric of their surrogates and return the focus to the issues.

"We are all very passionate about our politics and the issues we believe in, but we have to be very dispassionate about how we approach winning," Pelosi said at the event at Hearst Tower in Manhattan. "We have to lift the debate to a place that does not turn off the American people."

The San Francisco Democrat said the intensifying rhetoric would only help the presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

"There is absolutely no question that I have concerns about the attacks that are being made on one candidate or another," she said. "I do have concerns that the negativism can diminish our prospects for the general election."

Leaders may intervene
Pelosi's remarks were some of her sharpest comments about the presidential race. She often deflects questions about the campaign, but on Friday she waded in deep. She also served notice that Democratic leaders may step in if the infighting threatens the party's long-term interests.

[PM Martin]

1. Remember the real enemy:

The Republicans!

[Tropics_Dude83]

3. Pelosi and Gore.....

should gather the two candidates and bash some heads so that they stop the circular firing squad.

Harry Reid has zero credibility as he's in the tank for HRC. Pelosi and Gore have my respect, however.

[psychopomp]

17. ...and remember who took impeachment "off the table"

[Johnny__Motown]

2. Good, maybe Pelosi can handle Hillary,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZsYWiywdCA&feature=related

[smalll]

4. It's time to come together. Hillary/Obama '08!

Age Before Beauty.

[Tropics_Dude83]

5. I could support that if the ticket is sold as a co-presidency n/t

[musicblind]

11. I kind of feel like an Obama/Clinton Clinton/Obama ticket

really would be a co-presidency. I think they would both be contributing ideas and helping the nation together. It is clear the nation is split on which ideas to use! Why not put them together in some fashion and use both! :)

[redstate_democrat]

7. lol

Obama/Webb or Sebelius or Edwards or Richardson 08!

[Zhade]

10. Of course, Clinton will never be at the top of that ticket, since she's losing.

So sorry your dreams will be crushed.

Actually, not sorry at all.

[redstate_democrat]

6. It is about time!

We could have used a little help earlier though. I want someone to step in and put the smack down on 'em. Pelosi looks like she can go toe to toe with Obama or Clinton.

[Zhade]

8. Yeah, I give a fuck about someone letting criminals walk.

Yawn. Wake me up when she actually follows her oath of office.

[blogslut]

9. She's right

We're at a point where we're going to start hurting our chances in November. Don't make me tell you people my Miss America story...

[JohnnyLib2]

16. You tease!

[sandnsea]

12. Every time Obama defends himself

Where are they when Hillary is throwing grenades. She needs to be telling Hillary she lost, and if she doesn't want to do that, then she should shut up.

[Tropics_Dude83]

14. The problem is

Hillary has half the party, Obama has half the party. Obama/Clinton are the most evenly matched potential nominees in any nomination race in either party ever.

[sandnsea]

15. Look at the map closer

No, Hillary does not have half the party. If you look at the states she won, she doesn't carry Dem districts, Obama does.

[XemaSab]

19. Including Ms. Pelosi's own district

n/t

[Breeze54]

13. "Don't make me pull this car over! Simmer down!"

:rofl:

[SunsetDreams]

20. lolololololol

Too funny!

[psychopomp]

18. Zero credibility

Who was it that checked the anti-bush momentum that put Pelosi in power? Why, it was Ms. Pelosi herself.