President Barack Obama's now concluding trip to India seems to have turned out to be a failed or at the very least unhelpful effort. His false starts, unhelpful comments and bad policy moves mark this visit as a bit of a mess. Posted on 11/09/2010 8:10:03 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
President Barack Obama's now concluding trip to India seems to have turned out to be a failed or at the very least unhelpful effort. His false starts, unhelpful comments and bad policy moves mark this visit as a bit of a mess.
Obama made multiple gaffes not only for India but for his own party back home not to mention his nation. As his political party was delivered a severe blow and his agenda was cut off at the knees on election day he was seen dancing happily all across the continent with a lavish visit paid for at the taxpayer's expense even as those same taxpayers were enraged at wild government spending sprees. As the Indians worried over Obama's foreign policy he refused to call the those that attacked them in Mumbai terrorists and finally on his exit from the country he delivered yet another one of his digs at his own country saying that America is a nation in decline.
Things began going wrong for The One even as he first arrived in one of the most vibrant nations on earth. For one thing he arrived a lesser president than when he originally set up the trip. His party was delivered a stunning and historic blow as the GOP picked up over 60 seats in the federal seat of power and hundreds more in the state legislatures in the Nov. 2 election, a feat that hasn't been repeated since WWII. So Obama arrived with his mandate splintered and his power diminished. He is a president with less power to help his Indian hosts do anything.
Obama started by losing style points. Before he even arrived India's political class was stunned to find out that this man that supposedly has a well known reputation for being an eloquent speaker was going to use teleprompters in his speeches in their country. This was quixotic and hard for the Indians to understand as their tradition of oratory is based on memorized speeches delivered with panache and the sort of apparent extemporaneous qualities that a canned speech from a teleprompter lacks. Right off the top this fact made Obama seem a smaller man to the Indians...
He should have brought the Salahi’s with him. They could have renewed a few acquaintances.
Yup, Obama is the first Joe Btfsplk president.
He is going to be made into mincemeat at the upcoming Summit in Soeul.
Reuters Pictures
U.S. President Barack Obama waves to photographers through a door window from backstage as he waits to deliver remarks at the U.S.-India business council and entrepreneurship summit in Mumbai, India, November 6, 2010.
Obama has never been an "eloquent speaker". All Obama has ever done is to read well.
Sigh.
I hate bad professional writers. I despise the editors even more for missing this.
Exactly! Mr. Obama, our nation is in decline because of vile men like you who have been working feverishly to make that happen for decades now.
One can only fake knowledge and competence for so long and then everything comes out into the light of day.
the man is losing it and fast, the expressions on his face the past few weeks are not from a sane man
“Exactly! Mr. Obama, our nation is in decline because of vile men like you who have been working feverishly to make that happen for decades now.”
Couldn’t agree more.
BO is not there yet.
I’m shocked that the Indians don’t seem to appreciate obama’s intellect any better than we stupid voters do.
An apt description. 
From Steve Krupp's site:
. . . "He walks around with a perpetually dark rain cloud a foot over his head. Once he appears on any scene, dreadfully bad luck befalls anyone in his vicinity. . . . He is also a character with an apparently unpronounceable name, but creator Al Capp pronounced Btfsplk with a "raspberries" sound, also known as a 'Bronx cheer.' "
I'd love to see some "New Yawker" give him one.
I was hoping he was going home...
I can’t help but observe: What kind of vibrant nation is it, that in two years of watching this bozo and all the commentary available on the Internet, that they didn’t even know that the POTUS was the TOTUS?
Even grade school kids saw that, for Joe Biden’s sake.
Obummer, Sultan of Slop
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