Speaker Pelosi offers a shallow wai to the cameras and not to the Dalai Lama.
No offense to the 14th Dalai Lama, but sucking up to the Speaker US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi D-Calif., just doesn't cut it.
I have a sweet spot for Pelosi, too. She's a Baltimore girl from one of the city's legendary political families.
But, when she traveled 7,000 miles to Dharamsala, India, to call for an international inquiry into China's reaction to the latest protests in Tibet, she became a media whore... hungry for attention because she has been relegated to irrelevance by the US housing crisis, the world economy, Tibet and the US presidential election... events that apparently that don't need the leadership touch of the woman who is second in line to the US presidency.
Dharamsala is the hill-town home to Tibet's government in exile. Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama, who was more than willing accommodate a dual photo op, as well.
When you hear Pelosi has publicly pinned backed the ears of Chinese President Hu Jintao or Premier Wen Jiaboa on their Tibetan problem then you can believe Pelosi is a player.
Until then, she's just a political poser.
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