Letters to the Editor
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Take it easy Joan
Ms. Pelosi established her ballsiness before Webb did, so no need to see this as a "battle of the sexes." Who would you have preferred deliver the Webb speech last night? No one could have done what he did the way he did it but him. If Nancy Pelosi and he had somehow been in switched positions there is no doubt in my mind she would have been as effective in her own Nancy Pelosi way (which honestly turns me on), but she had something else to do and she did it with so much ease that it looked like she wasn't doing anything - but she was. That woman has balls. Hillary has balls to spare. Hell, every woman in politics has balls. They have to! But the best available person for this particular job was Jim Webb and I'm really sorry you see this (and the reaction of some males to it) as a sign that we don't recognize the strength of women in politics. For god's sake, we don't really need to go looking for trouble right now, and we don't need to find new excuses to divide ourselves. It was Jim Webb's moment after the speech. It's been Nancy Pelosi's from the first day Congress went into session. Iron fist in the velvet glove - and if you find that comment somehow condescending then you really don't want unity, you crave dissension and division. I don't want to believe that, but the tone of your article sure as hell sounds that way.
Have the balls to make me wrong, won't you?