At a rally in Georgia, Barack Obama commented on the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband. The former US president said Paul Pelosi was a 'good friend' and condemned politicians who 'stir up division to make folks as angry and as afraid of one another ... for their own advantage'.br br Pelosi was attacked with a hammer after an intruder entered his home in San Francisco, demanding to see his wife, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who was in Washington.