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Didn't he cut it short to pay his respects to the God-King of Oil?

 

I assume there's bigger stories out there, but it's still significant. He's the first President I believe to go there twice; and with something like 3mil Indians living in America or Americans of Indian descent there's a great deal of importance in strong ties between the two nations. India, as you'll recall, was the champion of the non-aligned movement and had previously eschewed ties with the US or USSR in favour of an isolationlist, leftist way.

Between this and the Cuba thing, Mr Obama is making some excellent diplomatic inroads. Of course, the blockade of Cuba is a day away from total success, so no rush into normalising things...

It's just too bad Mr Obama refused to live up to his promise to recognise the Armenian genocide. Very cowardly of him.

 

I've seen two articles about it. One of them was about Michelle Obama's (quite lovely) India-inspired clothing and the other was about whether or not Obama made a diplomatic faux-pas by chewing gum when meeting some officials.

God, I love new media.

 

Republicans just can't stop making stupid comments: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sex-with-your-unconscious-spouse

 

Obama went to India? Oh yeah, gum smacking earned the scorn of some in the Indian media. Guess he did.

 

KW please don't waste time with redundant posts.

 

Since marital rape was treated more lightly than rape between two unmarried people until the 1990's (and is still treated differently in 13 states), I'm shocked-- SHOCKED-- that someone would advocate such a view.

 

Did anyone catch the story on Gov. Jindal's official portrait?

Look at this:



It immediately reminded me of this:

 

God, I hate this country. Just look at how self-hating that man is.

 

But racial debate aside, is it just me or is that a really bad portrait? That was really my point by comparing it to the Seinfeld pic. It's not that bad but it is terrible beyond his skin color.

So yeah, self-hating but also art-hating.

 

That portrait is abysmal on its own merits (or lack thereof), and of course it's also ludicrous for reasons we all know.

 

Yeah it's just a bad portrait. When I first saw it thought maybe W had painted it. Not kidding.

 

To everyone who thinks that picture is Jindal's **official** portrait, thank you for proving that fools are indeed born every minute. But congrats on believing everything you read on teh interwebz.

Now if you'll excuse me, the helicopter I'm riding in has come under an RPG attack and we are making an emergency landing.

 

I thought that was a ranked list of the most purely evil Secretaries of State in history. No contest with Kissinger of course, but I would have ranked Schultz a bit higher.

 

Kissinger certainly deserves top spot of sec. of state of last 50 years as far as impact and notoriety. Many people know who he is or at least his name and you can't say that about most SoS.

 

Shouldn't Clinton, for using US troops to fake an attack and kill an ambassador in Benghazi (as well as for creating ebola with Obama) get worst SoS?

 

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/04/thi..._track_of_his_kills_and_hates_that_i_ask_him/

 

So, Biden won't be attending Netanyahu's speech: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/biden-netanyahu-speech-traveling

I think that will give any number of Democrats cover to likewise not attend.

 

no way that bobby jandis portrait is real