I know, I could hear all of us, myself included,(here at Poetryetc) tilt our heads in disbelief when I said I was having dinner with Nacy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, let alone asking her to support the 'torturer' investigations within the US Government. Well, au contraire, it was a three hour evening event in which I had the much interesting fortune of sitting directly across from her and mostly listening as the conversation bounced around politics and players around the globe. Apart from my misgivings during her first two years as Madame Speaker, particularly on going easy with the then President, I found her very impressive, smart and genuinely engaged with what's before the world.
I am so pleased that this event was able to enter into my project, The First 100 Days of Obamaa, as both text and haptic! (Well, she is, I believe, 3rd in line for the Presidency, if such disaster to Obama and Biden should strike! And, I have thought, about as close as I could get to the President).
If you want, take a closer, compressed look at the event, go to:
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=814
Four entries to go until Day 100 and the exhibit with the simultanous book and reading.
Boy, will I be relieved!
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=814
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