By not returning the prime minister’s call:
In continuation of the ‘snub’ to India, US President-elect Barack Obama today spoke to Chinese President Hu Jintao. Till now, Mr Obama has returned calls to 16 world leaders, including Hu, but as reported by The Statesman on 8 November, the “snub” to the Indian Prime Minister continues.
The Ministry of External Affairs however maintain that they are unaffected by Mr Obama’s call to the Chinese leader and points out that Mr Obama will call the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in due course of time. Officials insist that too much is being read into these telephone calls and this is not an indication of the strength of Indo-US relationship which remains strong.
This, however, does not explain the fact that as of 8 November, when Mr Obama called the Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, the Indian government had maintained that Mr Obama was returning calls only to countries that were having of some military alliance with the US. Officials in the MEA had particularly pointed out that both China and India had not received the call since both did not share a military alliance with USA.
Wasn’t the plan to heal the world? Put a new face on America so that the world would love us now that Bush is gone and we gave the world the leader they wanted?
Is it naivete or some master plan where he intends to embarrass our allies and embrace our enemies? Either way, you certainly didn’t elect the most diplomatic guy, did ya, lefties?
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posted November 10, 2008 at 8:16 am
Yes, actually we DID elect the most diplomatic of the mainstream candidates: we didn’t elect the nut-job who dissed our friend and ally, Spain.
Keep going. Your hysteria and psychosis may yet reach Limbaugh-ish levels.
posted November 10, 2008 at 9:55 am
“Either way, you certainly didn’t elect the most diplomatic guy, did ya, lefties?”
Maybe Michele is Guy Arthur Thomas?
Either way, a blog that insults its readers isn’t much of a blog.
I wrote to management at Beliefnet yesterday evening detailing the abuses on this blog, the lack of moderation, and pointed out certain members that can’t stay within with Beliefnet Rules of Conduct and who, IMNSHO, should not be here.
posted November 10, 2008 at 10:38 am
I see. So either you can just not frequent the blog, or try to silence it. In the way of the ever open-minded left, complain and try to give Michelle the Fairness Doctrine treatment.
Typical.
posted November 10, 2008 at 11:18 am
There is no positive spin to it .. it IS very much a snub. Kind of feel like a jack-ass now cause I was very supportive of Obama .. and he seemed to be quite “friendly” towards India. I guess the NRI votes are in the bank, as are the NRI contributions .. he got what he wanted and now it is time for the real Obama to stand up. I am very disappointed in him. I had expected a lot from Obama. Certainly not this kind of royal snub.
posted November 10, 2008 at 12:02 pm
“In the way of the ever open-minded left, complain and try to give Michelle the Fairness Doctrine treatment.”
No…simply asking that she play by the rules she agreed to when she started her blog here, that’s all. I also have contacted Beliefnet and forwarded examples of clear violations of their policy.
And Dale…I would expect a conservative to understand that the First Amendment does not apply here. Read the wording of it. It only restricts Congress, not private organizations. Beliefnet sets the rules, and we all agree to play by them.
I would have thought that a conservative would understand that.
posted November 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Obama barely won this election. What was it, 53 to 46 in the popular vote? Almost nobody voted for him that didn’t vote for Kerry in ’04. This despite what everybody is calling a brilliant campaign. He merely got a slightly higher percentage of the “idiot vote”, who essentially voted for him out of boredom.
Now he’s basking in the light of approval from stylish yet irrelevant European countries, rather than engaging in hard diplomacy in Asia. Childish in the extreme. When the planes start raining down on our cities again, the electorate will realize its’ folly.
posted November 14, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Getting back to the post rather than comments, gee, Michelle, with everything going on in this country, is a social call to the Prime Minister of India all that high on anybody’s list of priorities?