In Praise of Nancy Pelosi
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 9th, 2009 4:38 am by HL
In Praise of Nancy Pelosi
WASHINGTON — “I give Republicans credit for this: They vote the way they believe. … I think that they vote with more integrity than they get credit for.” That review of Republican motivations and commitments comes not courtesy of a partisan blog but from Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House.
Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare
In America’s struggle against the extremists and terrorists epitomized by Al Qaeda, the strategic imperatives are to divide the enemy and neutralize their base. Fortunately for the United States and its allies, the new American president understands how to do that — and is uniquely suited to accomplish the mission. If in the aftermath of 9/11 Western intelligence agencies had tried to conceive of a leader whose background would enable him to engage the world’s Muslims, they might have imagined someone like Barack Hussein Obama. Most analysts would naturally assume that such a person could never become president of the United States, but if they allowed themselves to imagine an ideal spokesman for American values, he might well have looked like the man elected last November.