Posted on 11/04/2009 11:13:45 PM PST by cold start
< The Best American President India's Ever Had Ashok Malik, That's George W. Bush.
On Oct. 30 and 31, George W. Bush visited New Delhi and Bombay for meetings with India's political, strategic and business establishment. In the Indian capital, he addressed an audience of federal government officials, parliamentarians, business executives and foreign policy wonks that comprised the most receptive gathering the former American president had encountered in a long, long time.
As Bush left the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit--a high-profile conference organized by a leading Indian newspaper--the ambassador of a major country, a NATO ally, could be seen shaking his head, recovering from the standing ovation the 43rd president had received on his way out (a repeat of the effusive applause on his way in): "Can't think of too many countries where he'd get such a reception ... India and Israel maybe ..." "And Poland ..." his interlocutor added. "And Poland ..." the ambassador repeated, still a little dazed.
Diplomacy lays much stress on timing, semiotics, nuance. India threw away that rulebook. It embraced Bush just three weeks before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is due to travel to Washington, D.C., for the first state visit of the Barack Obama presidency. Bush, virtually an ogre figure for sections of the Democrats, was welcomed in India with an unusual, bipartisan exuberance. The Indians knew what they were doing, but still did it.
The prime minister had Bush over for lunch, also inviting the parliamentary leader of the opposition BJP as well as his Foreign Ministry team. At the Leadership Summit dinner, Bush shared the high table with Sonia Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress party and India's most powerful individual politician. It was a thanksgiving moment--a gesture to the man widely seen as the best American president India has ever had.
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Waitaminute. It ain’t Obama?? Indians are racist!
This begs the question, how long until Obama throws India under the bus?
Of course not. The Europeans are suicidal, and prefer to put their faith in "making nice" with those whose goal is Europe's destruction.
I miss Pres. Bush.
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Kind of interesting that they went out and bought all that gold right after they talked to George, huh?
What you said....I miss him too!! Our Troops really miss him too, I’ll bet.
Very.
Because: “the Pouser is turning the dollar into a Hoser”.......
“”Bush’s only visits outside North America since he left the Oval Office have been to South Korea and India. Europeans don’t want him.”
Of course not. The Europeans are suicidal, and prefer to put their faith in “making nice” with those whose goal is Europe’s destruction.”
I don’t believe that, during President Bush tenure a fair number of European nations elected conservative, pro Bush, pro American leaders. I am thinking of France and Germany primarily, but the President was and is also popular in Eastern Europe. Indeed, the real joke in Europe, at least with their leaders is that we elected an absolute buffoon for a President.
Also...President Bush is very popular in Africa...Putin personally likes Bush as well and has shown great disrespect to the child we have now for President.
I don’t agree. A couple of elections don’t prove there’s been a seachange in European sentiment. I encounter many Europeans in my work and they sure don’t seem to like Bush. Eastern Europe is another story.
For 367 days. :(
I sure hope someone posts this over in DU and/or DailyKos. We’ll know if they do by the sounds of lib heads exploding.
This is in Forbes?
I recall Bush’s speech given in India in 2006 praising the outsourcing of American jobs.
I won’t miss anti-American-lite just because we’ve got anti-American-heavy in office.
Facts are facts, they elected conservative (by European standards) leaders who were also pro Bush and pro American. Now, I also admit that there is a large marxist element in Europe that hates all freedom loving leaders. Those are your Bush haters, they also hated Reagan.
Back in 2000 and 2001 before 9/11 hostilities between India and Pakistan where heating up big time (over Kashmir?).There was the fear they would go to war over this,and it would go nuclear. Bush quietly sent Rumsfield over there to explain exactly what would happen to their countries if they did that to each other. He didn't threaten them,didn't have to. After that everything cooled off and the war of words seemed to go away.
Well, we elected Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc. I don’t think that means this country loves socialism.
So, it’s a good thing if the American President praises the off-shoring of manufacturing and service jobs? Nothing like telling people it’s a good thing that they are being laid off while expecting their votes....
Don’t be too sure...but does it matter if most do love socialism? Would that mean we do not have a right to fight for freedom? In any event, our present President is viewed as a buffoon by most of Europe’s leaders. Those who would disparage President Bush, a man who liberated over 50 million people, stood up for life at every turn and was such a good President in so many ways are not all that important to consider anyway.
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