--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6227.html>
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> Pelosi prays for Bush to change policies
> By: Josh Kraushaar
> Oct 7, 2007 04:04 PM EST
>
>
> Pelosi disagrees with party's major Democratic
> hopefuls on continued
> U.S. troop presence in Iraq in 2013.
> Photo: AP
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> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday
> that she prays for
> President Bush to change his policies "all the
> time," and has
> specifically prayed for him to sign legislation
> boosting heath
> insurance coverage for children.
>
> "First of all, I pray for President Bush all the
> time, and I pray
> especially hard that he would sign the children's
> health bill because
> it's so important for America's children," Pelosi
> said on Fox News
> Sunday. "I pray that he makes the right decisions
> for the American
> people."
>
> But she said she doesn't pray specifically "for a
> political outcome."
>
> "We just pray that God's will will be done. We pray
> for the children,
> we pray for poor people, we pray for people who need
> help," she said.
> "And we always, always, always pray for our men and
> women in uniform
> who make our freedom to pray possible."
>
> In the same appearance, Pelosi also she disagreed
> with her party's
> leading Democratic presidential nominees on whether
> there should be
> any long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq, adding
> that the party's
> inability to end the war has been politically costly
> for
> Congressional Democrats.
>
> At last month's Democratic presidential debate,
> Sens. Hillary Rodham
> Clinton (D-N.Y), Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former
> North Carolina Sen.
> John Edwards all declined to pledge to remove all
> U.S forces from
> Iraq by 2013.
>
> "I think the Democrats in the House of
> Representatives are much more
> optimistic than that," Pelosi said. "My view would
> be much more
> optimistic than what our presidential candidates are
> saying."
>
> Pelosi acknowledged that Congress' inability to end
> the Iraq war was
> causing public approval of its performance to drop
> to record lows.
>
> "The public is weary about this war. They want it to
> end, and they
> had expectations that Congress would end it. That
> focus on the war
> has eclipsed all that we have accomplished here,"
> she said.
>
> While stopping short of endorsing Clinton for her
> party's
> presidential nomination, Pelosi said it "would be
> exciting" to have
> both a female president and House speaker. But she
> also said it was
> more difficult for a woman to become speaker of the
> House than to win
> the presidency.
>
> "This is a men's club here and I sometimes I think
> it's harder to
> become speaker of the House than president of the
> United States for a
> woman," Pelosi said.
>
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