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So Where Was Pelosi During Obama’s Afghanistan Address? At a U2 Concert

So Where Was Pelosi During Obamas Afghanistan Address? At a U2 ConcertOn Wednesday night, President Obama delivered a highly-publicized speech to the American public about the future of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan. While the commander-in-chief addressed the nation, another prominent politician skipped out of town to attend…a U2 concert.

While more than 25 million Americans tuned in to watch Obama’s remarks, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wasn’t one of them. According to FOX News Insider:

…House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was at a U2 concert in Baltimore. Pelosi and actor Matt Damon were among the fans in attendance at M & T Bank Stadium.

The former House Speaker didn’t waste any time, though, commenting about the president’s announcement that 10,000 American troops will come home by the end of this year, with a total of 33,000 exiting the war-torn nation by next summer. FOXNews.com has more:

Although Pelosi’s office issued a statement after Obama’s speech calling for a more substantial drawdown, Pelosi reportedly was watching the famed Irish band sing “Beautiful Day” and perform a musical tribute to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head

After recovering from her U2 escapades, Pelosi spoke to reporters yesterday:

While it is certainly no surprise that Pelosi and left-leaning U2 frontman Bono are friends (back in 2006, the Washingtonian reported that Pelosi held a special lunch for the rocker), the notion that such a prominent political leader would skip out on a major policy speech in order to attend a rock concert is strikingly odd.

Priorities, priorities.

(h/t FOX News Insider)

Comments (137)

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  • Navyveteran
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:47am

    Hey if I didn‘t have direct tv I would have gone somewhere so I didn’t have to listen to that bloviated blowhard blow sunshine up my arse either. I only have two questions: How much did Nancy cost us tax payers to do this concert?, and 2. Did we have to pay for freaking lousy Matt Damon as well?

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  • NWalters78
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:44am

    Complete and utter contempt and dereliction of duty. Had Boehner or Denny Hastert done something along these lines, there’d be cries for removal from office, burning them at the stake, etc….. However, again, the harlot press is silent on this, while serving their master’s needs.

    and of course, San Franfreakshow will keep this hag in power, til she’s dead.

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  • Drum Man
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:43am

    BLAZE…. PLEASE take her picture down! I just ate for God’s sake!

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    • NWalters78
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:46am

      I second that! Pelosi’s very existence makes me ill. Seeing her, will make me wanna purge.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:42am

    Aaron in Polk County:
    Pelosi should go on a bus tour and sell some books:

    This assumes she can write; – we already know she can’t read.
    “… But we have to pass the bill so you can see what is in it.”

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  • mAs_Man
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:30am

    Even Pelosi understands that Obama isn’t worth listening to.

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  • G man
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:30am

    She has had so many face lifts that she now has athletes foot on her chin.

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  • John Valentine
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:28am

    BARACK OBAMA
    BORES ME
    but…
    BARACK OBAMA
    BORES NANCY?

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:27am

    Either way she was in a pile of succotash!

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    • starman70
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:49pm

      1) She knew in advance what Obama would say because he was towing the liberal line she authored.

      2) She can‘t stand watching Obama’s speedhes given only with the teleprompter.

      3) George Soros didn;t give her permission to watch.

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:24am

    A non-story.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:20am

    Sorry I misread and its to early in the morning yet. It was Pelosi at the concert, not the Obamanation!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:23am

      It’s never too early to lambaste Obama.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Oh, go ahead and criticize him for something he did not do, every one of us already does that! It makes us look clever and urbane.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:37pm

      Its good Troll bait, too.

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    • Michael
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 3:37pm

      That’s okay Abby, everybody is entitled to one mistake (or, if you are a Democrat, as many as you want.) I thought at first you might be Pelosi in disguise, but realized I was wrong about that. (Being conservative, I know how to admit my mistakes. I still cringe everytime I think about how I voted for Carter.) As far as Obama being wrong, well that‘s just a fact of life we’ll have to endure until 1/20/2013 when he leaves the White House for good.

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  • ofallon
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:19am

    The only time I will ever agree with Nancy Pelosi. Old rockers never die.

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  • conservativemom99
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:18am

    At least she wasn’t in Washington messing up the country…

    “Pelosi held a special lunch for the rocker”…translation: WE paid for a special lunch for the rocker.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:52am

      Representative Pelosi is one of the richest congresspersons because of her family wealth. Her husband is super rich.

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:17am

    Don’t care. This intellectual lightweight has been does not matter. If all it takes is this version of the “bread and circus” to distract the likes of Damon and Pelosi, I say more U2 is needed.
    Pelosi wants to steal some of Gifford’s thunder or support her, that’s on her. Once again, I don’t care and marvel at the people who do. This is what I‘d think you’d want this goof doing: Staying out of the way while the adults have a discussion.
    This is even more pathetic than worrying about how many times any POTUS plays golf.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:17am

    Man look at all the sheep at that concert. I think this is the first time in my lifetime I have ever seen a President of our beloved country speak at a concert. I wonder if everyone of them were frisked before Obama showed up. What kind of President would use U2 as a place to speak to the American people,I know one who is desperate.. he wants to hear thunder and he can no longer bring that on his own.

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  • thinkhard64
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:17am

    They turn the stomach of any person that has morals!

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  • Bushie
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:15am

    I think she would be better suited to be at an F-U concert.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:11am

    Every time I see this woman talk I think of Brad Pitt in The Twelve Monkeys.
    She should be wearing one of those shirts where the arms tie in the back.

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  • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:10am

    This is so cool! Pelosi at a U2 concert.

    You know, Glenn Beck and Bono (or as Glenn calls him, B-Money) are good friends now! Glenn met him when he went to see the Spider-Man musical!

    Glenn and Pelosi have that in common … and isn’t that just too cool?!

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:17am

      No.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:19am

      Bill Clinton was at the Spiderman Play grand opening and embraced Bono before going to dinner with Keith Richards. Johnny Depp sat with them at dinner and cross-translated for both.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Please, you’re drooling.
      Glenn is also friends with many people who hate Pelosi, Glenn and those people have that in common and I think it is SO cool.

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    • hi
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:56pm

      Beck, with all due respect, is also friends with the Huntsman”s who donated $25,000 to Harry Reid?

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 3:02pm

      @HI

      “Beck, with all due respect, is also friends with the Huntsman”s who donated $25,000 to Harry Reid?”

      What’s with the question mark? Are you asking a question or making a statement? Look it up, dummy. I don’t know … or give a crap.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:10am

    What’s a 70 something woman doing at a rock concert and how much did it cost the tax payer? She probably got flown in for the event etc.etc.

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    • Shellback
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:35am

      Gonzo, I agree. She probably found some way to charge this to a Gummit boondoggle at our expense. I do think she no longer has access to the aircraft, back to her broom. You know she didn’t attend this by herself, so what was cost to us?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:44am

      I doubt she paid a dime to see Bono, maybe Matt the idiot Damon paid for it but, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if somehow I paid for a portion of it.

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  • wewantchillywilly
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:09am

    U2 is her favorite word

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    • Lawlcat001
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:15am

      lol! Touche

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    • RLTW
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:23am

      Pelosi is weighed and measured in Corics, the official unit of measure for CR@ P

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  • harumph
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:08am

    It’s a matter of respect. Barry, please make a note of it.
    But, since I respect neither of them, I could care less where either is at any given time.

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    • SovereignSoul
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:03pm

      If you could care less, please do. As for me, I COUDLN’T care less than I do at this moment.

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  • miri55
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:06am

    Clever Catholic Priest
    One Saturday afternoon, in Washington , D.C., an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the Bishop at the Catholic cathedral in D.C. He told the Cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day’s Mass, and he asked if the Cardinal would kindly point out Pelosi to the congregation and say a few words that would include calling Pelosi a saint. The Cardinal replied, “No. I don’t really like the woman, and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic Church over certain of Pelosi’s views.”

    Pelosi’s aide then said, “Look, I’ll write a check here and now for a donation of $100,000 to your church if you’ll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi as a saint.”

    The Cardinal thought about it and said, “Well, the church can use the money, so I‘ll work your request into tomorrow’s sermon.”

    As Pelosi’s aide promised, House Speaker Pelosi appeared for the Sunday worship and seated herself prominently at the forward left side of the center aisle.

    As promised, at the start of his sermon, the Cardinal pointed out that Speaker Pelosi was present. The Cardinal went on to explain to the congregation, “While Speaker Pelosi’s presence is probably an honor to some, the woman is not numbered among my personal favorite personages. Some of her most egregious views are contrary to tenets of the Church, and she tends to flip-flop on many other issues. Nancy Pelosi is a petty, self-absorbed hypocrite, a thum

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:06pm

      I’m on the edge of my seat. What’s a THUM? And is that all he said? He could have added the fact of the Donation, her views on Abortion, her views on stem cell research, her making over a million dollars last year, while the rest of the country is struggling, her flying all over on the Taxpayers Dime, her NOT reading the Bill before she passed it,

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    • sawgrass jim
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:32pm

      I guess I am the 14th man. Waiting for the sequel and ending. I think someone should write a play about these Democratic buffoons and take to Broadway and put it up in lights. Every night highlight their incompetence, arrogance and stupidity. The New York media and critics will be beside themselves and I predict the show and the nationally touring shows would sell out night after night.
      I would name the show… So you voted for Stupid…Stupid !!!!!!

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  • frustratedwithgovt
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:02am

    I think that any time Pelosi is away from Washington DC is a good thing for America. I encourage her to travel with them…..

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  • lel2007
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:00am

    Pelosi at a U2 concert? This is good, hopefully she’ll attend more concerts. Maybe she’ll get trampled in the excited crowd.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:59am

    Pelosi got lost, misunderstanding.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:06am

      U2? Ugh – how utterly and perfectly liberal – right of Flipper’s alley.

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    • desertkid
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:13am

      It’s time for a drug test Nancy.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:14am

      So Pelosi showed up at the U2 concert? And here I thought the big fires we have been suffering down in southern AZ were the result of Pelosi having a secret facelift attempt from a black market doc…

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:17am

      Why is this even a news story?

      I was in my car. My neighbor was in his living room…. So, What!?!
      I know where the President was. He was were he needed to be and doing the right thing (for a change).
      That is all that matters.

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    • knockered
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:18am

      She’s a snake in the grass…

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:21am

      Snowleopard, what are you smoking today? That comment made no sense at all.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:23am

      Glenn and U2′s Bono both invested heavily in the Spiderman Play that just re-opened (see Vanity Fair last week). Bono and Pelosi are Catholics who are trying to get one world support for their “peace and love” pope initiatives. Glenn is only involved to protect his previous investments, and does not support the pope, except for these4 shared fundraising publicity events. To protect his earnings, only.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:26am

      Love their music. Hate their politics.

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    • Faulkner and Brown
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:31am

      Man, I would have been at the U2 show too. I sure as heck wouldn’t have been watching the Pres talk about jumping ship..U2 kicks butt!

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:41am

      Was it mandatory the she be required to be there? I know she is getting paid to be a Congresswoman and it’s her job to attend Congress while it is in session.
      Was this an official session? If so, dock her one day of pay.

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:46am

      Glenn invested in Spiderman. No wonder he’s been pumping that train wreck.

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    • drbage
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:53am

      She got lost, just like the Mexican troops!

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:00pm

      And, let me remind some of you people that enjoy that there are two types of people in this world: Those that like U2 and those that do not.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Some one posted this last week, But it’s so TRUE, needed to be posted again……
      If Obama went to the Hospital and had a Hemorrhoid operation, Pelosi would lose a nose..
      This woman is Frightening.. everything Bush did While he was in office was BAD,
      but Bama can do no wrong, this woman is totally disgusting !!!! No Moral Values,
      With absolutely NO Credibility AWWWWWWGG !!

      Just another reason San Francisco needs to drop off into the Pacific … Can’t come soon enough !!!!

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:28pm

      PRIORITIES

      Obama’s Rhetoric or Entertainment probably paid for by the Tax-Payer.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:22pm

      @Beck is Nuts:

      I will attempt to clarify it for you…Pelosi getting a secret facelift…fires in AZ…sparks coming from the industrial grinders and welders used in her facelift ignite the fires…

      Clarified?

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:23pm

      @desertkid
      That is what I was going to say. She probably didn’t go for the concert but for all the partying and drugs and all that.

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    • cramy4u2
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:13pm

      U2 IS MY BAND…so I don’t know whether to vomit b/c we share similar taste in *something* or cheer that U2 beat out Obama grandstanding.

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    • godhead
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:45pm

      Reminds me of the time Eric Cantor skipped a joint session of Congress. Why? To go to Britney Spears concert. Alone. He has a young teen daughter and he didn’t take her. Went alone.

      Think about that. Then go take a shower.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 8:58pm

      I agree… Time for a whiz quiz NAnZI.

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