Pelosi's judgment questioned over Armenia issue

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1932584620071021

By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Nancy Pelosi's pledge of a new direction took a detour when she fumbled an Armenian genocide resolution and raised questions about her leadership as the highest ranking member of the U.S. Congress.

Pelosi, 67, speaker of the House of Representatives and next in line to the presidency after the vice president, swore she would push the controversial resolution to a vote, then blinked when some fellow Democrats withdrew their support in the face of furious reaction from Turkey.

President George W. Bush warned the symbolic resolution to affirm the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide would harm Washington's relations with Ankara. But as long as it looked like it would pass, Pelosi stuck to her guns.

When Democratic support started waning last week amid protests from NATO ally Turkey -- which denounced the measure as "insulting" and hinted at halting logistical support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq -- Pelosi wavered.

Critics say she miscalculated.

"It's certainly not her finest moment," said Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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[Double T]

1. This single issue, while there are others, typifies Nancy Pelosi is.......

incompetent in her position as Speaker and should resign her position immediately. With all the other super important CURRENT issues and problems; this nearly century old issue should NEVER have been considered.

[patrice]

2. Stupid.

Makes you wonder who NP is listening to. I wonder if she knows what a Troll in her organization could do.

Like Hillary's IWR vote, except in the opposite end of the spectrum, this resolution has same old business as usual finger prints all over it, trying to do something like, in this case, stopping the war, without exposing herself politically.

When the People are looking for leadership, the only conclusion one can draw from NP's resolution is Stupid, Blind, Tone-Deafness, Just like Bush in some ways, caused by exclusive association with certain social economic classes that don't include most of the people in this country.