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Obama's Disasterous Visit to India--multiple gaffes/America is a nation in decline?

Obama's Disasterous Visit to India--multiple gaffes

Source:
Big Government
URL Source: http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2 ... us-visit-to-india/#more-193425
Published: Nov 9, 2010
Author: Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama’s now concluding
trip to India seems to have turned out to be a failed or at the very
least unhelpful effort. His false starts, unhelpful comments and bad
policy moves mark this visit as a bit of a mess.

Obama made multiple gaffes not only for India but for his own party back home not to mention his nation. As his political party was
delivered a severe blow and his agenda was cut off at the knees on
election day he was seen dancing happily all across the continent with a
lavish visit paid for at the taxpayer’s expense even as those same
taxpayers were enraged at wild government spending sprees. As the
Indians worried over Obama’s foreign policy he refused to call the those
that attacked them in Mumbai terrorists and finally on his exit from
the country he delivered yet another one of his digs at his own country
saying that America is a nation in decline.

Things began going wrong for The One even as he first arrived in one of the most vibrant nations on earth. For one thing he arrived a lesser president than when
he originally set up the trip. His party was delivered a stunning and
historic blow as the GOP picked up over 60 seats in the federal seat of
power and hundreds more in the state legislatures in the Nov. 2
election, a feat that hasn’t been repeated since WWII. So Obama arrived
with his mandate splintered and his power diminished. He is a president
with less power to help his Indian hosts do anything.

Obama started by losing style points. Before he even arrived India’s political class was stunned to find out that this man that supposedly has a well
known reputation for being an eloquent speaker was going to use
teleprompters in his speeches in their country. This was quixotic and
hard for the Indians to understand as their tradition of oratory is
based on memorized speeches delivered with panache and the sort of
apparent extemporaneous qualities that a canned speech from a
teleprompter lacks. Right off the top this fact made Obama seem a
smaller man to the Indians.

His party’s losses back home and the suspicion over his capabilities at oratory in India should have been a cue for a serious and subdued visit to India. But Obama and his
high-flying wife seemed to have no clue that they should have adopted a
more careful demeanor on the visit. They were seen dancing across the
continent as if they didn’t have a care in the world and Mrs. Obama went
on another one of her epic spending shopping sprees to boot. The
frivolity, though, was the least of the problems with this visit.

Another, more damaging gaffe occurred as the president visited the city of Mumbai. His address there was...

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