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...
“Let’s Hear it for the Rainbow Tour...”
One of the major foreign policy accomplishments of the BUSH Administration(which was never covered by the MSM) was the relationship that was cultivated over time between the U.S. and India. the Indian Nation, long a former ally of the Soviet Union from the early 1950s up to the recent past, has been a strong partner with us in the 'War on Terror'.
Since the OBAMA Administration does not recognize that a 'War on Terror' exists, I can see where this could lead to some difficulty for them in dealing with an ally of ours who still thinks there is one.
But that was a solo foreign tour by a wildly popular blonde in order to support her popular husband.
How is it many of us saw that almost instantly?
Diplomacy, History, Economics, Sociology, Science, Math, Geography...
He is truly a ZERO in all the qualities demanded of a real statesman and leader.
I have repeated this regularly :
Perhaps the greatest damage that Obama has done to the history of our country that can never be undone, is that the first black president exceeded the lowest expectations of the most intense racists who ever existed.
It didn't need to happen this way. I can think of at least a couple of dozen of serious mature Americans who happen to be black who would have made a president not taking a back seat to most previous ones.
The first black, insane, neurotic, divisive, racist and truly ignorant president in our history.
A legacy that can't be undone.
“One of the major foreign policy accomplishments of the BUSH Administration(which was never covered by the MSM) was the relationship that was cultivated over time between the U.S. and India. “
Sadly, Obama may be damaging that relationship.
I am going to be using that a LOT in the next few months.
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