"Hello... Hanuman." < /seinfeld >
Posted on 06/24/2008 10:11:15 PM PDT by gandalftb
A group of Indians are planning to present a statue of the revered Indian monkey God, Hanuman, to Barack Obama.
The group decided to order the idol after they read a magazine report saying that Mr Obama carried a good luck 'monkey king' charm in his pocket. So he is a devotee of Hanuman.
Hindus revere monkeys which they believe are descendents of the monkey God Hanuman.
The two-foot tall, 15kg gold-polished, brass idol has been made for Mr Obama because "he will be good for India if he becomes the next president," according to Brij Mohan Bhama, leader of the group.
Ms Sauvage-Mar said the people organising the prayer meeting for the presidential candidate had possibly read a Time magazine article which mentioned that Mr Obama carried a "monkey king good luck charm".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This new messiah is so picky.
Just think if McCain sent him a monkey charm ......
Well, at least she’s well armed!
I wonder if Obama will consider this the same as the racist “sock monkey”... I’m guessing not... Maybe he wasn’t offended because of the old racial stereotype - maybe he was more offended that it mimicked his “god”. ;)
LOL - that’s the first thing that came to my mind, too. :)
Hanuman also looks somewhat like Hillary, esp. in the thigh and cankle area.
Obama’s Muslim friends and relatives shouldn’t be happy that he’s carrying an image of Hanuman. That makes him an idolater and polytheist.
John Nichols wrote a satirical novel about them called “Nirvana Blues”, and they blackballed him locally for years. The book is part of a hilarious trilogy, along with “The Milagro Beanfield War” and “The Magic Journey”.
He's a bit of a crank, and a proto-Marxist, but his humor is pretty good.
I knew Hanuman. Hanuman was a friend of mine. You are no Hanuman.
The Milagro Bean Field Wars is an awesome movie!
“This is not the same monkey I’ve known for 20 years.”
That looks like an image of Kali.
From wikipedia: Kali is “a Hindu goddess associated with death and destruction. Despite her negative connotations, she is not actually the goddess of death, but rather of Time and Change.”
Mine’s already going there in about a month. Seems that there is no import duty being charged on work that is imported through internet “tubes”.
CHANGE
"Hello... Hanuman." < /seinfeld >
Joke's on them:
Continuing to play the anti-outsourcing card, Democrat presidential front-runner Barack Obama on Wednesday said while America cannot "shy away" from globalisation, it would have to take measures to ensure that jobs are not shipped overseas.
http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/27bpo.htm
“Amadeo, you can’t buy bullets with foodstamps”.
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