January 29, 2008...8:49 pm
Outsourcing US Election Campaign
Barack Obama called Clinton a senator from Punjab.Thanks to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar she might soon be accused of being the senator from Bihar. When Nitish Kumar was asked to comment on reports that he and JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Digvijay Singh have been approached by Hillary’s campaign managers to campaign for Mrs Clinton, he said- “So far I have not received any invitation. If invited, Singh will go since he is well versed in foreign affairs. I am definitely in favour of Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton”.
There is a large number of Biharis in New York and New Jersey and their votes do play a role in the election. It might be seen as meddling in the ‘internal affairs’ of another country but who cares. Indian politicians can smell vote banks from thousands of kilometers. Nitish Kumar has suddenly discovered a huge potential vote bank for his favorite presdential candidate- Americans of Indian origin. Why has it never been proposed before? It is no secret that Indians are emotionally connected to the country of their origin, the proof of this visible during cricket matches all over the world. Indian leaders can make some difference in the US elections at least this is what Hillary’s campaign managers are hoping. In a closely fought election every vote counts.
When Laksmi Mittal was called by French President Sarkozy to talk about french unemployment issues, I felt proud as an Indian. When Gordon Brown and Sarkozy talked about supporting India as a permanent member of UNSC it felt good. Outsourcing IT services and education makes me happy but outsourcing election campaigns is going too far.
9 Comments
January 29, 2008 at 11:21 pm
That Digvijay Singh is an expert in foreign affairs will be news of great interest to his wife.
January 30, 2008 at 12:43 pm
hhheheeee doc good point !
dont nri biharis have brains ??
January 30, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Thus spoke a married man!
Prax I agree with you
January 30, 2008 at 4:45 pm
If the US elections are really ‘outsourced’ , can Indians take part in the voting process ? !!
hehe just kidding !
Aftab
http://www.indiademocracy.org
January 31, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Welcome and thanks Aftab.
February 1, 2008 at 9:13 am
Are you sure he wasnt talking about our Punjab
February 1, 2008 at 2:52 pm
For a change give some credit to our Bihari brothers Ammar
February 2, 2008 at 11:43 am
I wonder how the media might have reacted if something similar had been said about Obama e.g. “Senator from Kenya’s goatherd community” or some such…
Rough and ready bibliometric studies demonstrate HRC getting more negative headlines and monikers than BHO does. It does not take a rocket scientist to see why.
PS: The Democrat ticket is shaping up nicely; it WILL be the biggest test of Americans’ values and predilections and prejudices.
February 2, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I was thinking on the same lines Shefaly. Hillary is indeed getting more negative headlines than everybody else.It may be a simplistic view but initially I thought that women in America would favour her.Indira Gandhi had lots of female following as far as I remember.
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