Tina Fey blew the world away with a better Palin than Sarah.
Kim Jong II is trying desperately to prove to the world that he's still alive and kicking( or hasnt kicked the bucket).
i finally saw two programmes in HD that finally justified the promise that my LCD tv held, apart from being spectacular for gaming.
have spent 50 hours in Oblivion and have only finished 30 % of the game.
biggest whammy of all though, is that Obama won the race to the white house.
i'll admit, i was one of the skeptics who thought there was no way an african american would ever win the presidential ballot.
i admired the guy ever since he decided to advertise on Burnout Paradise. more than his acceptance of internet donations, the burnout decision proved to me that this was finally a 21st century candidate.
but that was always tempered with a realization that it didnt matter an iota what the world thought of him. what would matter is whether the american voting public would buy his message for change.
did they ever.
but while Obama basks in congratulations for a much deserved victory, New Delhi is rightly concerned. while the indian news media went gaga over O's victory, not ONE of them bothered to check his views and thoughts on matters pertaining to the subcontinent.
strange as it sounds, democratic presidents have never been good for India.
Obama is a guy who's against the following:
- he's gone on record saying he's against outsourcing and would like to introduce legislature that makes it financially inviable to move jobs offshore.
- He's also against increasing the number of H1B visas quota that industry giants like Microsoft have been clamoring for.
- Days into his election, he issued a statement saying that he was looking into placing Bill Clinton as an interlocutor between india and pakistan, to resume the stalled peace process
- he also represents the traditional Washington thinking that always hyphenates India Pakistan together, rather than deal with each seperately.
ironically, the greatest improvement in indo us relations after the 98 nuclear tests was reached when there were two right wing governments in respective centres.
the congress would like us believe that the whole deal was a personal endeavor for manmohan singh, but the truth is, the seeds and details were sown in by Jaswant singh and Robert mulford in the previous administrations.
Obama inherits an america that is being broken slowly in financial terms. good old companies like Ford and GM have announced they are on the verge of bankruptcy.
the 150 billion dollar bailout package that obama has proposed seems highly impractical. where's the money to put into this scheme, when america has spent more than a trillion dollars on needless warmongering?
in fact, the american press has proved more questioning of fairy tale packages, while the indian press largely ignored the 12000 crore bailout package that the government put into UTI when it crashed.
methinks that once the party is over and housecleaning begins in january, new delhi might be in for some nasty surprises.
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Cha cha, the American public didn't vote for Obama because they bought his message for change. I am not even sure they agree that they'd wake up to a better future once Obama became prez. They just want Sarah Palin out. That's all.
Prior to Sept 08 before Palin's name came out in RNC, it was an even race. Trust me.
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