Captain's Quarters -

I guess they all look the same to Nancy.

Actually its a great move. Up here in Canada we tend to starve our military. Veterans benefits from the US would help recruiting no end. In return we could send lots of snow (a local resource in abundant supply) to Iraq to help your GI's deal with the heat.

How do you get the fact that a picture posted on a website has anything to do with what Pelosi is proposing?

Your logic escapes me.

Who does the DNC have doing thier web pages? Did they OutSource hightech jobs to Canada?

Perhaps the once proud Canadian army, reduced now to a very small cog in a very small NATO, is what Nancy and the surrender-o-crats want for our armed forces?

Hey, JW, it seems a brain escaped you, along with the logic. When you click "read more", some of the article concerns military benefits (American military, I assume). But, then, using your logic, I might be wrong. I would think if SanFranNan is discussing the American military, her site would post an American soldier. But, that would be logical, and remember logic has escaped you.

Psychologists tell us that children learn things in the direction of general to particular. The child's mom says "that's a doggy" and the child proceeds to call all animals "doggy." If the child matures normally, he naturally acquires the ability to differentiate not just dogs from other animals, but indeed, various breeds of dog.

Liberals seem to be stuck in a retarded stage of development with respect to this foreign and confusing concept of "American Soldier."

If this Canadian may venture an opinion:

To JW - if a politician can't seem to tell the difference, or doesn't seem to care about the difference, between an American military uniform and a Candian military uniform, then one has to wonder if said politician really knows what (s)he is talking about.

By the way, my second oldest niece, is married to an American serviceman, a veterin of Desert Storm, and who is currently stationed with the US Navy in Japan.

How do you get the fact that a picture posted on a website has anything to do with what Pelosi is proposing?

Your logic escapes me.

OK troll, how about "The person third in line for the Presidency should have the basic competence to know the difference between a Canadian and US soldier when displaying them on her official web site in an official capacity."

But then again, this IS Nancy Pelosi we're talking about. Competency doesn't begin to enter the equation. Cheap shots at the GOP on her web site, now that's something else.

Maybe if Pelosi actually met with General Petraeus instead of doing her nails instead, she might know what it is a US Army uniform looks like.

"Benefits" is all Democrats have to offer us military members. Democrats undermine our mission, call us incompetent, call us losers, but they support us because they give toss us "benefits", like they toss toddlers tootsie rolls. Gee, thanks grandmommy!

Hey Pelosi, this military member has a great big "benefit" for you, right here, right now. It's about time you got what your worthless Democrat Party has been giving us for decades.

And oh yeah, I didn't join the military for socialized medicine, so Mrs. Pelosi, you can wrap that up in the burqa Assad gave you and shove it up your ugly craw, you old rotten bag of bones.

Can someone please make the Democrat Cartoon Congress go away and replace them with actual human beings, or even better, with actual Americans?

How do you get the fact that a picture posted on a website has anything to do with what Pelosi is proposing?

Your logic escapes me.

It isn't just a website. It is the OFFICIAL website of the Speaker of the House. Her military hating SanFran staff is clueless and makes her look stupid, though she doesn't need much extra help.

Go to http:\\speaker.gov and wait through the flash "ads" on her home page and you will see the picture.

Haha, this is funny.

And yea, she should fire the people in charge of maintaining/creating her web page.

But somehow I doubt Pelosi had anything to do with the image being put up.

BTW - Pelosi DID speak one on one with Petraeus for ~30 minutes, which is better than any single Congress-person got to do.

ROFL! This is a great catch, Captain! And don't forget that this is the woman who demanded a bigger military plane in order to carry her large family around on junkets, whoops, I mean "fact-finding trips".

Dear Ms. Pelosi, if you should ever happen to find yourself at the firing range, the round comes out of the open end of the long barrel; the part where the big round hole is. And please note that it's absolutely critical that this end should be pointed away from you at all times!

Captain, you better capture a save here. SanFransickoNan has already removed the picture (within the last 3 minutes).

How stupid do you think her staff feels? Oh, well, we all know that birds of a feather flock together.

Cq talking subjects are getting more futile and spiteful. He who still shows some brilliance in his writings is demonstrating an ever rising political tribalism and rancid ideology. It all but vindicates my recent change from Republican to Independent. Both parties’ substandard results advocate for an urgent political third way.

Captain, you better capture a save here. SanFransickoNan has already removed the picture (within the last 3 minutes).

How stupid do you think her staff feels?

Well kind of in a pickle..Where the heck are we going to find a picture of a US soldier in her office building?
Frantic dialing from pelosi's office...
" No not Mexican Army..I said..i said.".Cups hand over receiver, " US Army.. right Nancy?"
Uh ha,,yes..Returns to Nancy " listen we can get you a file photo of the Coast Guard..
Would that be something that would interest you" ?

"How stupid do you think her staff feels?"

These people didn't get where they are by feeling "stupid" about anything. All that matters is that they care.

And for leftwing one-worlder, a Canadian soldier is pretty much the same as a US soldier - a mindless dupe, who had to join the military because they had no other job prospects.

Somebody to be pitied, used as a political prop and to play political games with.

But to be respected? Forget it. Not happening.

I'd like to see a Republican depict Pelosi as a burqa clad chambermaid to Assad - of coure, that would be accurate, wouldn't it?

Yes, the failure of Pelosi’s website to feature an American Officer rather than a Canadian female Officer is ludicrous. As a native San Franciscan, I am deeply ashamed to be represented by this ghastly individual who, in better days, would have been taken out to be tarred and feathered by the Committee of Vigilance! And my fellow Americans, let us not forget than there was, indeed, the famous Committee of Vigilance in the great City of San Francisco!

And while we are on the subject, let us not forget the absolutely appalling fact that the first Canadian female officer killed in Afghanistan, while supporting U.S. and allied troops, was Captain Nichola Goddard of the Royal Canadian Artillery, killed in the turret of her tank while directing devastating fire against Taliban forces, for which she was decorated. Captain Goddard was a graduate of the Royal Military College (Canada’s West Point). Frankly, as a Korean veteran, I am literally sickened by the thought of a female officer being so killed in combat. Pelosi is a political scumbag and totally beneath contempt.

Maybe Nancy hired the same assistant that helped Katie Couric post her "diary" on the CBSNews website? : )

Hopefully, when Hillary Clinton picks her running mate, Nancy will be in charge of designing Hillary's website and there will be a picture of Duncan Hunter there!

It's mildly entertaining to notice it, but hardly surprising.

I wonder if Pelosi supports the webmasters even though she's against the website?

If you want to break a REAL news story, find one of Democrats actually demonstrating knowledge of or support (beyond words) for the US military. Now, THAT would be news!

And no, Lieberman doesn't count.

And no, Lieberman doesn't count

Uh, Lieberman isn't a democrat anymore, so you're safe on that count.

I'll bet the graphics department for Pelosi's website are already several verses into Kumbaya to re-affirm their own value to the cause.

Considering Pelosi's voting record I suppose we should be thankful that she did not put up a picture of an al Qaeda "insurgent" instead of a member of the Canadian military.

At least she got the hemisphere right. For a Democrat, that makes her a super-genius.

3rd in the line of succession....

Either she's responsible for her website or not. If she is, then this is irrefutable evidence that she deserves to have lower polls than W, and if she's not responsible, then what is she responsible for; the pics(no), the words (nah, paid for by PACs etc), then what?

CLASSIC 2008 campaign fodder

Mwalimu - you beat me to it .... I was going to suggest that we should award points to Pelosi Galore for at least not showing an AK-47-totin' kafiyeh-wearin' Hamas freedomfighter consulting with his Syrian military doctor on how best to strap on the explosives belt so as to cause the maximum scattering of body parts on his next jaunt to the market.

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I thin what our military really needs is a new mission, a new invasion. I think that 10 or 20 million of the rest of us out to join them in that invasion.

We should all go to Washington and free our country from the whores, traitors, and thieves that infest the place.

Yeah - Pelosi builds her own websites - She goes home every night and blogs about her day's events -

Seriously this is ridiculous - so so so ridiculous

I think it was just a simple, honest mistake. The Speaker's staff is unfamiliar with the appearance of the uniform before it has been burned, and probably figured that the uniform in the picture would, after the rally, look like what they're used to seeing.

The really should get a military expert on staff to help with things like this, someone with unquestioned credibility... Jesse Macbeth, maybe?

CK,

You seriously mean to tell me that it's not telling when her staff approves something for the front page of her website & doesn't notice the word "CANADA" on the officer's epaulettes? Especially given that the original version of the photo was most likely in much higher resolution that the flash animation. Not to mention that everything these days is focus-grouped and massaged for maximum impact. Just how out of touch do they have to be to overlook the differences between the Canadian & US Army's uniforms? And not field uniforms from the days when both forces wore woodland camouflage on their salad-suits, but a service uniform which for the Canuck officers feature their nation's name right there. These are the people advising the person who is number three in the line of succession. As Mssr. Parker has been known to quip, "With great power comes great responsibilities", including the responsibility to realize that our soldiers probably don't have the names of other nations on their bloody rank insignia!

Note the difference in expectations on the part of our lefties:

Pelosi, Speaker of the House, can't be expected to be responsible for some trivial detail about a photo on her website. Some underling screwed up, and it's not her fault.

Bush, on the other hand, is PERSONALLY responsible for EVERYTHING that happens on planet Earth. Remember Abu Ghraib?

Speaker Pelosi clearly supports the military...just not OUR military...

Canada will do, she can support the wily Canuck...that's where our brave deserters go to hide.