While Mr. Obama was dancing around questions — figuratively speaking — on Sunday, he also participated in some literal dancing, showing off some moves that, to the delight of photographers traveling with him, are likely to provide iconic images of his trip. Mr. Obama’s short performance came after student dancers doing a show for him implored him to join in.More here. The Nobel peace laureate is using his power to clear restrictions on military trade, setting up multi-billion dollar arms contracts on behalf of military corporations and supporting India's rogue nuclear program.
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“We call him the world king, king of the world,” said Chetman Rawal, 20, who studies commerce at the college. “I think he will change the world.”
In interviews, students and faculty members here uniformly spoke kindly of Mr. Obama, praising everything from “his cuteness,” as one female student said, to his basketball skills, to his respect for “Gandhian principles.” On the question of how he applies those principles, Mr. Obama sounded a note of humility.
“I’m often frustrated by how far I fall short of their example,” he said, referring to Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln, all of whom he said he was studying.
New York Times
President Obama is traveling to India this weekend to make a $5 billion sale for 10 of Boeing's C-17 cargo planes. If India signs the contract, this would be the sixth biggest arms deal in U.S. history.
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Monday, November 08, 2010
A King's peace
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First Black POTUS for the WIN!
Notice the stereotypes of Articulate Blacks: cute, good dancer, good at basketball.
I guess when your country is caste-bound, you are forced to see the world in stereotypes. Good thing India is a Preferred Partner, eh?
LOL. Mr. Oxtrot.
Justin: I'm not sure I understand one thing, though: Why INDIA'S nukes are uniquely "rogue" versus the nuclear arsenals kept by Teh Defenduhs uv Freedom (tm). Arent ALL nuclear arsenals 'rogue"?
(Rhetorical comment only! I just react to the iomplicaiton comment among the mainstream press that SOME nuclear arsenals are a-ok (cough, cough, Israel...Pakistan) while others are rogue disasters that must be battled via wars that destroy hundreds of thousands of people).
Rogue in the narrow sense that they are not signatories to the NPT and are operating outside any kind of legal framework. Whether that is a polite fiction or anything more substantive is an open question. I've followed this for awhile, noting the double standard for preferred states (Israel, India) and enemies (Iran).
The India and Nuclear tags give links to some older articles I wrote about this.
Thanks. I guess that is my problem...I am skeptical about this "legality" and the framework other states are supposedly operating within. Plus, when we talk about this "legality" we can play into the hands of those drum beating for war with Iran (not that you are doing that in any way shape or fashion, just that this language out floating around is being used to justify such war).
I've read and agree with your earlier posts...I'm just being a smartass.
I didn't take it as a smartass remark. I think it is a very valid question, I come at the same conclusion as you from a different direction. I can't expect everyone to remember everything I've ever written, so when I write something short and don't bother questioning assumptions I've taken up with greater fighting spirit in the past its helpful to link back.
I set it up so as to say here is the law as we have defined it, supposedly fair and applied equally. Here are the standards our government holds others too and here is where they violate those same standards in other circumstances.
There is a portion of India, mainly of the ruling class and the english-speaking ruling class in particular, which sees itself as a (maybe the most awesome) Vassal of the USA in it's glorious quest to spread its empire across the globe.
The children of St. Xaviers called him teh world-king, maybe, but most of the country couldn't give a shit though you couldnt tell that from watching the news channels having an obamagasm
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