From The WSJ Opinion April 24, 2009

Here’s something “the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush” wrote for the Wall Street Journal. It would be good to hear some comments from you guys on it. One line that stuck out…

In London, he [President Obama] said that decisions about the world financial system were no longer made by “just Roosevelt and Churchill sitting in a room with a brandy” — as if that were a bad thing.

As if that were a bad thing…

I really wish the WSJ would stick to economics.

Manmohan vs Advani – II April 13, 2009

The pointless verbal battles of these octogenarians (give or take a few years) never cease to amuse me.

What right does Manmohan Singh have to talk about the Kandhar episode? Delhi, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Assam… And not to mention the ludicrous failure of administrative machinery Mumbai was… For five years, it seemed no city in India was safe. Dr. Singh should pick a better issue than National Security to attack the NDA on. He might also do better to brush up on some details of the international pressure India faced during the Kandhar episode.

What right does Advani have to talk about strength of will? Gathering troops of maniacs and demolishing a mosque seems to be his level of comprehension of strength of will and execution.

The Congress could do better than to harp on their diplomatic triumphs. Someone should remind them that Pakistan has not yielded an inch on Mumbai yet. Indo-Pak relations were a million times better with Vajpayee and Musharraf.  The animosity was open for all to see. But we still played cricket with each other. Now we don’t do that either.

At the end of it all, I think I preferred the old NDA to the current UPA. At least they kept us a little more safe. From the terrorists and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and the endless reservations that killed the aspirations of a small town student who is about as economically backward as the officially backward guy.

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Disclaimers:
1. I trust the allies of the BJP to keep it from getting too communal and the RSS type organizations to keep it from ever instituting religion based reservations.

2. Not too sure if the new set of allies are as trustworthy as the old. The two best ones – BJD in Orissa and TDP in Andhra – seem to be gone.

Election Time! April 11, 2009

Manmohan weak, has no authority – Advani

Sonia speaks for PM, says Advani talking rubbish

Wouldn’t it be better if Manmohan spoke up for himself once in a while?

Also, came across this about the Samajwadi Party’s agenda.

“The use of computers in offices is creating unemployment problems. Our party feels that if work can be done by a person using hands there is no need to deploy machines,” Mulayam Singh said at a press conference after unveiling the manifesto.

“Previous governments have promoted forward trading, share trading and mall culture. Any government formed with our support will either reduce or stop it completely,” he added.

What are we trying to do? Go back to the middle ages?