Well, That's Convincing

This profile wants to convince us that Nancy Pelosi and San Franciscans generally are just Mom and Pop (or Pop and Pop) America and not at all loopy moonbats. It doesn't necessarily succeed.

More recently, the San Francisco area's embrace of gay marriage, medical marijuana and the anti-war movement reinforced the city's image as a loopy place out of sync with the rest of America.

That's ironic, said Richard DeLeon, professor emeritus of political science at San Francisco State University.

'The values of the American creed - individuality, liberty, free speech, democracy and at least the aspiration of equality - can be expressed and experienced in San Francisco to an extent that's hard to find elsewhere,' said DeLeon, who first came here during the 1967 Summer of Love. 'San Francisco isn't un-American. America has become less American, with a retreat from civil liberties and, in the White House, suppressive policies and pre-emptive war.'

I know that the Left learned everything they need to know in Kindergarten, but in every argument do they have to go straight to "I know you are, but what am I?"