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Akamai

(1,779 posts)
5. She is great! Absolutely talking truth to power. Thoughtful, committed, with an agenda any of us
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:31 PM
Mar 2017

will support.

A really, really, really classy person.

If she were in Portland, Oregon, I certainly would want to buy her dinner and invite her to be part of my family. Really nice person with a very important agenda.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. She's seen every trick in the racist handbook
Tue Mar 28, 2017, 11:55 PM
Mar 2017

I note that Blotchy Bill didn't make his cleverest-boy-in-the-third-grade remark to Rep. Waters' face.

mwooldri

(10,301 posts)
7. Even if she wasn't black, or strong... she can't be intimidated.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:14 AM
Mar 2017

Maxine Waters has character AND integrity.

gordianot

(15,234 posts)
8. That is definitely "Stand Your Ground" not some woose with a gun.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:37 AM
Mar 2017

A couple of times Chris Hays looked as if he wanted to ask a question wisely he did not. This is one lady not to mess with.

Akbar

(307 posts)
11. I Am a White Male (luck of the draw)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:59 AM
Mar 2017

I am painfully embarrassed that Rep. Waters has been subject to such deeming behavior by a socially-retarded idiot. Seems to me she has the proper perspective, and that the fact she is an adult makes her immune to such ridiculousness.

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