Flashback: Nancy Pelosi leads Dem delegation to Syria over Bush objections

We haven't heard a lot from Nancy Pelosi on Syria. Maybe this has something to do with why (original source here).

Ms. Pelosi was criticized by President Bush for visiting Damascus at a
time when the administration -- rightly or wrongly -- has frozen
high-level contacts with Syria. Mr. Bush said that thanks to the
speaker's freelancing Mr. Assad was getting mixed messages from the
United

Happy Labor Day, Barack Obama

Heh (Hat Tip: Jack W).

Islamic Rage Boy seethes over Obama clown, clown banned

Islamic Rage Boy is seething at a Missouri state fair clown who imitated President Hussein Obama (Hat Tip: Jack W).

The Kansas City Star reported:


Missouri State Fair officials and politicians on Sunday
condemned the performance of a rodeo clown who donned a mask resembling
President Obama during Saturday’s bull riding competition.



A tempest over the incident erupted after the Show Me

Obama's credibility gap

Evelyn Gordon points out how President Obama's failure to take to task his best friend forever (BFF), Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, over Erdogan's failure to abide by the agreement the two of them made with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, is weighing heavily on the 'peace process.'

As Jonathan noted
yesterday, Israeli pessimism about renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace