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Hillary to woo Indian-Americans ("wealthy entrepreneurs with ties to India")
NDTV.com ^ | July 7, 2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 07/07/2007 7:09:07 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is wooing wealthy entrepreneurs with ties to India, seeking to tap the growing political clout of Indian-Americans in California's Silicon Valley.

Clinton spoke by live video feed from New Orleans to nearly 4,000 businessmen attending the annual alumni conference of the Indian Institute of Technology.

Clinton, the only Republican or Democratic presidential candidate to accept an invitation from the IIT, reiterated her call for more H-1B work visas for highly educated immigrants.

It is an issue of deep concern to the Indian and Indian-American executives and engineers in the audience.

But she did not shy from characterisation of the pain of offshore outsourcing, the exporting of technology jobs to low-cost workers in countries such as India, China and Russia.

The United States has sent tens of thousands of high-paying computer programming and engineering jobs to developing countries in recent years.

''Workers in the United States are concerned about outsourcing, and I think they're right to be, but so should all of us who value the bilateral relationship between the US and India,'' Clinton said.

''If the US continues to outsource jobs to India large numbers, people will increasingly feel insecure and increasingly seek protection.''

Her appearance comes less than a month after rival Barack Obama's campaign sent a sarcastic memo to reporters criticizing Clinton's ties to India.

The memo characterised the New York senator as the ''Democrat from Punjab'' - a reference to a joking introduction of Clinton by Rajwant Singh, national chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education.

Prominent Indian-Americans immediately demanded an apology from Obama. Within days, the Illinois senator conceded that their concerns over the campaign memo were ''entirely justified.''

Clinton's courting of Indian-American voters comes as the 2.3 million-member community in the US exerts more influence in the 2008 presidential election.

In May, Indian-Americans in Silicon Valley raised $200,000. In April, New York hotelier and restaurateur Sant Chatwal claimed that Indian-Americans could raise at least $5 million for Clinton's campaign.

According to the US Census Bureau, although they make up for less than one per cent of the US population, Indians living in the United States have the highest average income of any racial group.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: h1b; hillary; indianamericans; outsourcing
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1 posted on 07/07/2007 7:09:09 PM PDT by BornInASmallTown
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She’s got a lot of ground to make up. I understand that her little comment about the “Indian guy in the gas station” got a lot of play in the Indian and Indian-American communities.
2 posted on 07/07/2007 7:12:42 PM PDT by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: Uriah_lost

wonder if she is boning up on a fake Hindi accent?


3 posted on 07/07/2007 7:16:46 PM PDT by alfie (peace through superior firepower)
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To: BornInASmallTown

Immigrants from India are already largely socialist. Her Thighness likely reminds them of the Royal Highness Indira Gandhi, a tyrant in the same mold as Jezebel, aka Hillary.


4 posted on 07/07/2007 7:20:09 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (Islam is a despotism so vile that it would warm the heart of Orwell's Big Brother)
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To: BornInASmallTown

The Clintons have been hooked up with Vin Gupta for years. I’m sure he’s behind this in some way.


5 posted on 07/07/2007 7:20:25 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Al Gore is Soylent Green!)
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To: BornInASmallTown

If Hillary thought it would get her elected she would put a red dot on her forehead.


6 posted on 07/07/2007 7:20:25 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (http://www.imwithfred.com/index.aspx)
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To: BornInASmallTown

I find Indian women very attractive


7 posted on 07/07/2007 7:21:35 PM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: BornInASmallTown

Never forget Hillary’s “joke” about mathama GHANDI running a gas staation!! Those Indians are stupid to support her.


8 posted on 07/07/2007 7:21:43 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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boy that may get you a visit


9 posted on 07/07/2007 7:22:27 PM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: isthisnickcool

Is Vin Gupta ANY relation to DR> Gupta on CNN? Probably.....he doesn’st seem like the BRIGHTEST buld in the chandelier.


10 posted on 07/07/2007 7:22:52 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: BornInASmallTown
Clinton, the only Republican or Democratic presidential candidate to accept an invitation from the IIT, reiterated her call for more H-1B work visas for highly educated immigrants.

BS! There are what, close to 20 people running and only 1 person accepted? I don't think so.

11 posted on 07/07/2007 7:23:13 PM PDT by Dahoser (Never question Mr. Nibbles!)
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To: BornInASmallTown

And if I'd been born a boy, my parents were going to name me Mahatma Gandhi.

12 posted on 07/07/2007 7:52:55 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: BornInASmallTown
Listen to Hillary's statement to the press after her meeting with Indian-Americans.
13 posted on 07/07/2007 7:57:41 PM PDT by Reaganesque (Romney 2008)
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To: BornInASmallTown
I would imagine Mr. One Night Stand Clinton knows his share of Patels. :)
14 posted on 07/07/2007 8:12:30 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: BornInASmallTown

let me guess,

hillary will be speaking hindi

with a mumbai accent!


15 posted on 07/07/2007 8:14:09 PM PDT by ken21
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To: BornInASmallTown

Hillary figures, “Why not?”...”Bill sold alot of ‘things’ and that dang Chi-Com money spent like water”......”What do my newest constituents want most?”


16 posted on 07/07/2007 8:18:19 PM PDT by Hornet19 (It's Time to Put Up or Shut Up...Where Do You Stand?)
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To: BornInASmallTown

I think this’ll last right up until she realizes that she’s met about a hundred Patels and each and every one has checked Bill and a young woman into his motel.


17 posted on 07/07/2007 8:24:03 PM PDT by RichInOC (Bill Clinton doesn't need a partner to have sex with somebody he loves...but it helps.)
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To: BornInASmallTown
Grifters.
18 posted on 07/07/2007 8:46:10 PM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: attiladhun2

Well, some are. Many are fed up with socialism as well. Problem lies in the way our democracy works. Illiterate idiots always end up ruling the roost.


19 posted on 07/07/2007 9:39:06 PM PDT by design engineer
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To: ken21

...and with a dash of a Worli twang!


20 posted on 07/07/2007 9:42:32 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Sad so many members of the World's Policeman--our fellow Americans--know little about their "beat")
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