Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:13:07 -0400 From: "Bosco D" <bos...@canada.com>
Bush conveniently dodged the last two Diwali events at the White House by sending his 'wishes'. They are both answerable to their constituents. Do more expat Indians support the Democrats or Republicans? Financially too - who had a longer list of ethnic Indians in their donor lists - Bush or Obama?? Even our resident Republican pleader can enlighten the audience on this one. Mario observes: I can't be sure but from their comments Gilbert, Victor, George, Santosh and Marlon all sound like maha-Obama supporters. I am not a Republican either, so, perhaps Bosco should tell us who is the "resident Republican pleader" he is referring to and looking to for insights about whether Americans of Indian descent preferred Bush or Obama. Could he be referring to Rajan Parrikar, assuming Rajan is an American citizen? As an American libertarian-conservative I frankly have no idea why any American of Indian descent would support Obama after ostensibly leaving India due primarily to the constrictions of the same socialist-like domestic policies that Obama would like to implement in the USA, and the same feckless and self-centered foreign policies that India tends to follow. Other than in his personal family values and his brown complexion, Americans of Indian descent have nothing in common philosophically with Obama that I can see. Indians in America, as the highest earners among all American ethnic groups when ranked by family income, will pay through the nose if Obama prevails in implementing most of his preferred far left wing policies while getting a stagnant European-style economy with high taxes, high inflation and high unemployment rates and nothing else in return. Both Bush and Obama had Indians working in the White House. The youngest Governor in the USA is an American of Indian descent who is considered a prodigy in solving social problems from a government leadership position, using free market principles, an anti-Obama if you will. He also happens to be a staunch conservative Republican and is considered a major influence in the future of the Republican party and a potential future US President. The fact remains that Bush made his decisions more on principle and was known for saying what he meant and meaning what he said. For example, he did not attend Diwali celebrations at the White House because he did not want to make it a presidential precedent given the hundreds of ethnic groups represented among the US population. On the other hand he actually stood up against the world and almost single-handedly fought to provide India with an epic nuclear agreement. Obama on the other hand, has a reputation for saying whatever the audience of the moment wants to hear, then brazenly pretending he never said it if it turns out to be inconvenient. He attended the Diwali celebration, but had previously sent his first envoy as president to meet with Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization. Some observers in India consider him to be hostile to India's interests as a previous post on Goanet illustrated. Time will tell if this observer was right or wrong. One thing Indians can count on are teleprompted pro-Indian speeches when the situation merits it.
