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Nancy Pelosi – Two heartbeats away from U.S. presidency?!

Photo resource: New York Times website
Nancy Pelosi has been the most hot and popular political celebrity since last Tuesday night, November 7, 2006. I hardly pay less attention to her than most American people even though I am only an immigrant with no right to vote. Not surprisingly, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected for his second term as the governor of California , which might interest some Californians for the better or worse. Of course, the entire Bay Area’s political attention is drawn to the first female speaker to-be of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

Before this weekend, all I could recall about Mrs. Pelosi was she had always said something against George W. Bush and the current government. People call her a liberal congresswoman, which gives me a positive impression toward her. This Democratic Party’s perfect storm sweeping both U.S. Congress and House of Representatives does force me to educate myself more about how American Congress and House of Representatives work and what the speaker of House of Representatives does. If I would like to be a cheerleader, at least I have to know what I am cheering for, right?

Thanks to YouTube.com and lots of generous people posting those news video clips, I can browse around for Nancy Pelosi’s speech and TV interviews with her. There are two parts of a video interview produced by CBS 60 Minutes, called Two Heartbeats Away part 1 and part 2, posted by a user named NancyPelosi. There is no enough reference showing that YouTube blog was not signed up by real Nancy Pelosi. However, I suspect the blogger is just a supporter of hers. Otherwise, Mrs. Pelosi is way too cool at her age and political position. What does it mean “Two Heartbeats Away” for being the Speaker of House of Representatives? I wondered. After some reading work, I found out Nancy Pelosi could be the first female president by default if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were dead before 2008 presidency election. Wow, it means Nancy Pelosi is the third powerful person in U.S. political field now; it is huge to women’s right movement in U.S.

Right on! Mrs. Pelosi. Although I am just a California long-term resident, I still would like to express my own opinions. Hopefully, you are not like most of politicians who get power from the voters but only care about benefits of themselves. Don’t forget most of your supporters put a lot of hope on you to stop Iraq War and some other possible wars U.S. could stir up in Middle East. Don’t forget there are many people cannot afford health insurance premiums and America is one of very few high developed countries that don’t have national universal health insurance for its own citizens and children.

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