From the October 7 show:
WALLACE: As to the presidential race, I know that you have decided to stay neutral until you get a nominee.
PELOSI: Yes.
WALLACE: But can you honestly say as the first woman speaker in our country you have never thought about the possibility of introducing the first woman president to deliver the state of the union?
PELOSI: Of course not. Of course I think about it. I think it would be very, very exciting. Similarly for the first African American president or the first Hispanic president. But no, it would be pretty exciting for us to have the first woman president of the United States.
WALLACE: And what message do you think that would send, a woman president addressing the nation with a woman speaker behind her?
PELOSI: I can only tell you the message that my own achieving the office of speaker has sent. I’m deluged with communications from all over the country. And when I travel, people are so excited that there is a woman speaker, that we’ve broken the marble ceiling, and they’re excited for what it means for young girls.
Fathers of daughters particularly have been enthusiastic about what it means for their children, for their daughters, that anything is possible. This is a men’s club here. It has been. And I sometimes think it’s harder to become speaker of the House than president of the United States for a woman.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299943,00.html
Turkey is no reliable friend to the US. When we needed their help, they opted to go Islamic and supported Saddam. And that cost us the ability to have a viable northern front during the offensive.
For what, exactly, did we give them aid and support for 50 years?
OTOH, we have an alternative in Israel, through which we can transship everything better than through Turkey.