Why Nancy Pelosi May Not Be The Right Leader For Democrats

I mentioned months ago (when she was minority leader) that she was not the right person for the job.

#1. She is misinterpreting the results of the mid-term elections. She seems to be concerned with pulling troops from Iraq quickly... this is not what the people were necessarily voting for. A slow, phased 2, 3 or 4 year pullout (based on benchmarks achieved by the Iraqis) with some sort of Iraqi government in tact? Yes.

A plan that puts U.S. troops in a safer position (re-positioned in better & safer locations in and around Iraq)? Yes.

A plan that includes doubling or tripling the rate of which Iraqi forces are trained and equipped so that more of their own people can take over? Yes.

A fast withdrawal of U.S. troops that leaves the region in an even more chaotic situation than it is in now? No.

Americans want to see something that they could call victory in Iraq. What they want is better management of the Iraq issue.

#2. She is apparently pushing for Alcee Hastings to head the House Intel Committee.... What in the world is wrong with this woman? Hastings has major problems in his background. The Republican media pundits are already taking aim at her and the Party on this issue. She needs to squash this quickly...and I even thought the matter was taken care of...but I recently heard that she was still seriously considering this.

Her motto was "Ending the Culture of Corruption".... then she turns around and does this???? the Neo-cons are having a field day with this.... she is giving them ammunition.... it will be 100 times worse if she actually puts Hastings in this important seat. And for me it's not a race thing... i'm a 110% African American man....and I don't want to see Hastings in that seat.

After the elections, experts predicted that Pelosi would take more moderate positions (where needed) so that the Party could be successful. However, it appears- so far- that she is going hard to the left.... (which is not where the rest of the country is right now).

It's not too late for her to get it right. It remains to be seen if she will be worthy of her new position as Speaker of the House.

But she must be careful on the issue of Iraq. Republicans are now licking their chops, waiting for the opportunity to turn the issue around and blame the Iraq mess on the Democrats (even though the whole plan was hatched by crazy Republican neo-conservatives). If the U.S. fails there, rest assured that Democrats will get the blame for it. Republicans are hoping that the American people have short memories and won't remember what led to the Iraq fiasco. And i'm afraid that history would be on the side of Republicans when it comes to that strategy, because Americans do tend to forget the details.....because most Americans just don't pay attention....something that benefits Republicans quite a bit. Americans did not really realize what was going on in Iraq until approximately late 2004 or during 2005 (a full 1-2 years after the war began). They knew that something was going on....but they were not sure what exactly was taking place. They assumed that this war would be another quick video game victory with no consequences for the U.S. (They are victims of the big U.S. news networks that provide entertainment rather than news, and that have glossed over the real consequences of war since the early 1990's with the first Gulf War to remove Iraq from Kuwait. The modern concept itself began after Vietnam, when the government decided that it wanted to control the images and control public perceptions about war.... in order to maintain support).