QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 5:57 P.M. ET:  From Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, esteemed legislator, scholar of American history, and all around...well, you finish it:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), appearing before the Democratic National Committee winter meeting this morning, was illustrating the diversity of the Democratic party by painting the touching scene of FDR's final train ride from Georgia to Hyde Park. Then she stumbled.

"There were farmers and black Americans, whatever the name was in those days, Afric- uh -- large numbers of African-Americans, poor people, middle class people, everyone. . . they lined the tracks to pay their respects," Pelosi told an audience at the Capitol Hilton.

COMMENT:  Yeah, whatever the name was in those days.  What respect.  What reverence.  Imagine what she says in private. 

But she's a Democrat, so Jesse Jackson will undoubtedly give her a pass and offer to pray with her...on camera of course.  Hi-fi sound only.

February 5, 2010