Monday, May 20, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Dinesh D’Souza to release new film, titled: AMERICA in 2016
…It’s at great moments of peril like this that we need to regroup and rediscover the first principles of what made America great.
“We are now living in the America that we warned our fellow citizens could come to pass if President Obama were re-elected,” said Dinesh D’Souza, best-selling author who will return as writer and host. “Like it or not America is now the nation that Barack Obama Junior and Senior dreamed of creating. Americans are right to be terrified as they see the transformation of America take place before their very eyes. But it’s at great moments of peril like this that we need to regroup and rediscover the first principles of what made America great.”
“We intend to bring the same level of excellence, integrity and honesty to this production and, if we’re successful, we’ll once again be embraced by the American filmgoing public and ignored by the Oscars,” quipped producer Gerald R. Molen, himself an Academy Award® winning filmmaker of such hits as Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park and Minority Report, who returns as producer.
Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar - Fast Growth Will Save Lives Not the Food Security Bill
Amartya Sen wants to estimate the number of deaths caused by the delay in passing the Food Security Bill. He thinks this may shame Opposition politicians into ceasing disruption of proceedings in the Lok Sabha. “To capture people’s attention, you have to have a number,” he says.
Fine, but let’s hope Sen will also estimate deaths caused by faulty policies that historically kept India’s GDP growth slow, and have once again slowed growth today. He loves to emphasise that for any given GDP growth, better social investment will improve outcomes. Why not equally emphasise that, for any given level of social investment, faster growth will also improve outcomes and reduce deaths?
Sen gained fame by estimating that 100 million women were “missing” because of gender discrimination that led to excess female mortality. He looked at the male-female ratio in China, South Asia, West Asia and North Africa, and asked what would have happened if these regions had the same sex ratio as in Western countries where women and men receive equally good care. He calculated that these countries would have had more than 100 million extra women.
Reihan Salam - The Global Garment Manufacturing Ecosystem
Indonesia, which has a GDP per capita (PPP) two-and-a-half times as high as that of Bangladesh and a government that has improved markedly in recent years, has been gaining momentum. Bradsher reports that many elite brands had harbored concerns about Bangladesh’s reliance on high-rise factories, a reflection of rising land values in prime manufacturing districts, which are in turn a reflection of transportation bottlenecks that threaten the reliability of shipments.
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/348634/global-garment-manufacturing-ecosystem-reihan-salam
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Top South Carolina Democrat Wants To Send Nikki Haley “Wherever The Hell She Came From”
A spokesman for South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Friday fired back at the latest in a long string of attacks that seem to invoke her status as an Indian-American woman presiding over her Southern state.
South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian, a trial lawyer, longtime Democratic leader, and legendary figure in local politics, reportedly told a South Carolina Democratic Party dinner that the Democratic challenger would send "Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from."
More here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/top-south-carolina-wants-to-send-nikki-haley-wherever-the-he
Saturday, April 27, 2013
SURVEY: Obama won every Asian American nationality
A report released Friday found that every segment of Asian Americans voted for Barack Obama in November, including the historically Republican Vietnamese and Filipino communities.
But the report found that almost half of Asian American and Pacific Islander registered voters do not identify with the Democratic or Republican parties, meaning that they may be open to switching their votes to other parties in the future. Democrat Obama received 68 percent of the Asian American and Pacific Islander vote, compared with 30 percent for Republican Mitt Romney.
Obama did best among Asian Indians, who gave the president 84 percent of their votes. More than 60 percent of Vietnamese and Filipino voters supported Obama.
READ MORE: http://blog.pe.com/multicultural-beat/2013/04/06/survey-obama-won-every-asian-american-nationality/
Indian Libertarians
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Manna from Heaven, or a New Recession?
This article appeared in The Times of India on April 21, 2013.
The price of gold, oil and many other commodities crashed last week. The stock markets zoomed and economists smiled, suddenly seeing positive consequences in three areas — inflation, the trade deficit and the fiscal deficit.
These three factors had earlier dragged down the economy to its lowest growth rate for a decade, just 4.7 per cent in the last quarter. But the global commodity crash should reduce inflation in India too, cheaper imports should shrink the trade deficit, and the fiscal deficit should shrink because oil and fertiliser subsidies will reduce. This is a triple helping of manna from above. Does it mean that the worst is over, and that the flagging Indian economy will now take off?
Read more: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/manna-heaven-or-new-recession
Speaking with Harmeet K. Dhillon, Vice Chair of California Republicans
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 ― Harmeet K. Dhillon is a name you will come to know. Recently, Harmeet made history by becoming the first woman ever elected to the position of Vice Chairman of the California Republican Party. Born in India, Dhillon and family arrived in the United States when she was two years old. From the Bronx, New York to rural North Carolina, where her father worked as an orthopedic surgeon, her family adopted and lived by traditional, conservative values.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/richard-ivory-gives-voice/2013/apr/16/speaking-harmeet-k-dhillon-vice-chair-california-r/#ixzz2ReCgIaq5 Follow us: @wtcommunities on Twitter
growth vs. GROWTH
We need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They’re loading on more and more regulation on the private without respect to how the economy functions. - Dick Cheney
What has happened since October 9, 2007? Oh, not that much…
The stock market absorbed a 57% decline, the U.S. elected then re-elected Barack Obama, dubious amounts of political partisanship has become the norm, Obamacare became reality, Dodd-Frank was passed and slowly enacted, the U.S. has seen its credit rating downgraded, the Fed has implemented QE1-Infinity, unemployment peaked above 10% and now sits at 7.7%, the markets have experienced a 4-year bull market since bottoming out resulting in a return to all-time highs, the economy has experienced 4 years of tepid economic expansion …you get the point, a lot has happened.
Historically, the economic bounce-back from severe recessions has been staggeringly forceful, as was the case with the most recent recovery initially; however it has gone through periods of regression and improvement along the way. Much of the relative impotence along the way has been the result of ill-conceived policies that have blunted the economy.
The financial crisis was an abhorrent event to have to recover from; it rocked investors, businesses and the general public to the core. It made us question how we do things in the U.S. Yet memory is short-lived and most recovered from this event relatively quickly, but then Washington did everything it could to limit expectations and cause new volatility.
This has manifested itself presently in the form of weak 2013 GDP growth projections that range anywhere from 1.7-2.3%. This begs the question, “Where could the U.S. growth be without Washington’s wrangling and regulations?”
UK Conservative Friends of India - launch film
The launch film of Conservative Friends of India, a new member-led organisation that will help to develop links and a meaningful relationship between the Conservative Party, the British Indian community and India.
Conservative Friends of India statement on the death of Baroness Thatcher
Conservative Friends of India is sad to learn of the death of former Prime Minister, the Baroness Thatcher. Commenting on behalf of CF India its co-Chairmen, Shailesh Vara MP and Ranjit Baxi, said:
“Baroness Thatcher will go down in history as one of the greatest ever British Prime Ministers. It is no exaggeration to say that she saved the country from terminal economic decline and, in doing so, helped us rediscover a pride in our nation. Her refusal to bow down to Argentine aggression and her staunch, absolute and ultimately successful rejection of communism rightly earned her the sobriquet ‘the Iron Lady.’
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Reihan Salam :The Next Same-Sex Marriage Debate
From The National Review:
Reihan Salam's latest column for Reuters Opinion is on how the same-sex civil marriage debate is likely to unfold as opponents find themselves outnumbered. I also recommend reading Ramesh Ponnuru’s 2003 essay on the debate, which did an excellent job of anticipating how support for same-sex civil marriage would grow.
Yes, Health Care is a Right -- An Individual Right
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| Avik Roy is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of the Forbes blog The Apothecary. He has stated he is an "outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues |
Many moons ago, I served a term as chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, a parliamentary debating society. On March 26, the Union invited me back to keynote a debate on the topic, “Resolved, That Health Care is a Right.” What follows is an edited excerpt of my remarks, in which I argue that health care is indeed a right—but not in the way that most progressives think.
Thank you, Madame President.
The reason I’m here is to explain to the members of this House why health care is, indeed, a right. Let me start by telling the story of Deamonte Driver.
Deamonte lived on the wrong side of the tracks, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. He was raised by a single mother. He spent his childhood in and out of homeless shelters. He was a black kid on welfare.
Deamonte died at age twelve. But Deamonte died, not in a drive-by shooting, or in a drug deal gone bad. Deamonte died of a toothache.
Monday, March 25, 2013
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Obama: The Marketer-in-Chief
“Obama was the better marketer and if the Grand Old Party wants to have a chance of resetting the electoral map they need to respect marketing” (Tantillo, 2012). This statement is especially true when we look at two if the most decisive issues: Healthcare and Reproductive/Women’s Rights.
Healthcare
Almost immediately after it was passed in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had its detractors and some pretty prominent ones at that. Fast forward nearly two years and “repeal Obamacare” became a rallying cry for the Republican Party. This was intimated by numerous candidates during the primaries and by Mitt Romney as the eventual nominee.
Outside of trying to appeal to those who are against big-government and rational thinkers who are aware of the bureaucratic nightmare this may become, Mitt Romney’s message was largely ineffective. This was because a majority of Americans, although not necessarily in favor of the ACA were not willing to simply repeal it (Jones, 2012). Barack Obama’s camp kept close watch on polling data that allowed them to tailor their message effectively to the trends currently impacting the public, thus they were easily able to appeal to those who the ACA was intended to benefit (lower income, pre-existing conditions, unemployed recent college graduates) and come off looking compassionate and keeping the public’s best interest in mind.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Harmeet K. Dhillon: California Republicans at a Crossroads
California Republicans are at a crossroads. We need to take
a good look in the mirror and be honest with ourselves. We have many values and
traits as Republicans that make us attractive to voters. From being seen as
strong leaders on job creation and fiscal responsibility to understanding the
importance of protecting bedrock constitutional, individual and natural rights,
we have a value set and message to voters that can win in California again. But
first, we need a California Republican Party that is committed to giving our
candidates the tools and resources to engage in hand-to-hand “political combat”
and win against our increasingly leftist Democrat adversaries.
I’m seeking the support of California Republican Party delegates to represent the party as its next Vice Chair, from the northern region of our great state.
Many in the media are pushing a narrative that our values are the problem in the hope that our party will abandon those very core principles that we know are critical to California’s future and our electoral success. Many on the left and in the media attack our values as the culprit for losing campaigns when our candidates are outspent sometimes by ridiculous amounts and rely on a campaign infrastructure that is obsolete and in need of renovation and innovation.
The next leadership of the California Republican Party needs to get back to the fundamentals of helping qualified candidates win elections. That means emphasizing what can be controlled and doing it well including:
1.Raising resources to help our candidates take their message to the voters and compete more effectively with their Democrat opponents who are funded heavily by government labor unions and special interests.
2.Reaching into new communities that are “growth markets” for new GOP candidates, voters, donors and volunteers. We aren’t going to win over voters in new, growing communities if we aren’t willing to invest the time to build deeper, personal bonds. We must communicate at the grassroots level to build credibility, not just create a new “outreach” plan that makes everybody feel good but accomplishes little. Our communications efforts need to emphasize new, cost-effective technologies to help our candidates better reach voters in those “growth markets.”
3.Recruit and equip a new generation of candidates who reflect the communities they seek to represent and share our Republican values. We must strengthen our candidate campaign schools and get those candidates ready to face the Democrat attack machine. Every community in California contains conservative leaders; our job is to find them and nurture them.
The California Republican Party is a home in need of renovation. There is no need to disturb the foundation of its core conservative values, but it’s time to add on a few new rooms for what can and should be a growing family.
A critical element of the party’s success will be for party activists and candidates to step outside their comfort zones in a number of ways. For one, we must adopt the best possible technology now. The party can learn from the successes of our opposition’s voter contact and outreach mechanics so we can spread our message more effectively. This element of our plan is particularly critical to reaching out and engaging Millenial-generation voters.
Republicans also need to increase their engagement in their communities beyond politics – such as volunteering in their communities in non-Republican settings, nonprofit groups, the arts, social service organizations, and neighborhood associations. It is in these time honored, grass roots, locally-based apolitical organizations where relationships are formed, leadership opportunities emerge, and volunteers get an opportunity to gain the trust of their neighbors. There is no better way for Republicans to expand their circles of influence than by leaving their computers, engaging with their neighbors in person and becoming a part of their community.
The California Republican Party has the basic tools it needs to excel. We have great volunteers and committed supporters ready to compete and win. We have an electorate yearning for better leadership than the failed tax-and-spend Democrat crew in Sacramento who are the epitome of what people despise in government but have only been hearing one side of the argument. We, as Republicans, need leadership that will put the party back on firm financial footing with an improved professional operation that is focused on changing those dynamics.
As I watched the many television documentaries on President’s Day about President Lincoln, I was reminded of his belief that even in the toughest times you must stand and fight for what is right. We must look to our first Republican President and our nation’s greatest leader for the inspiration to bring our state and nation forward behind the conservative policies and values that we know will make life better for our fellow citizens. Our party must once again provide support and tools for our elected leaders and candidates who will be attacked by the Democrats for doing what is right.
Can we regain that once bright promise for California? Pulling together, I know that we can. I ask for your support at the California Republican Party Convention and hope you will go to my website to get to know more about me and to get involved with my campaign. Thank you.
A short video regarding some of Harmeet’s goals as CRP Vice Chair
About the Author: Harmeet K. Dhillon is the Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party and candidate for California Republican Party Vice Chairman. If you would like to support her campiagn please go to http://www.dhillonforcrp.com/index.html. On March 2nd (tommorow) she is holding an event in Sacramento for supporters of her campaign.
Campaign site: http://www.dhillonforcrp.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhillonforcrp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HKD4CRPVC
Monday, February 25, 2013
Obama’s Minimum Wage Gambit
The President’s proposal to raise the minimum wage is as politically clever as it is economically meaningless. The proposal is pointless in practical terms since it can’t become law and wouldn’t help the economy if it did. It is only significant because of what it says about President Obama.
The President is clearly learning how to use Republican dysfunction to his advantage. This gambit invites Republicans to put their most serious weaknesses on display. So far we are giving him what he hoped for and more.
Any Republican response ought to begin by acknowledging the merits of the minimum wage. While it’s true that a wage floor eliminates some jobs, that’s what it is meant to accomplish. In extreme circumstances, people can find themselves without negotiating leverage in the wage market. A wage floor, along with the rest of the social safety net, legislates out of existence certain jobs which are inherently exploitative.
Along the way it incentivizes technological development, supporting careers in fields like computers and robotics which might not exist if the poorest in society could be starved into submission. Eliminating the wage floor entirely would do more than make the poor poorer. It would pull some of the momentum out of higher-paid industries, sucking wages downward for everyone.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
J.C. Watts Launches 'INSIGHT America'
From
BetNews:
J.C. "Buddy" Watts Sr., father of former Republican congressman J.C. Watts, in 1999 said, "A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders." Back then, his son was the only African-American Republican in Congress and there's still just one. It is in part why Watts is taking steps to diversify his party by starting an organization called Insight.
Set to launch on Feb. 27, Insight will recruit students of color to serve in Republican offices, host professional development and policy forums and provide networking opportunities, Politico reports. The policy forums will kick off in March and focus on issues that affect ethnic minorities.
Watts, who runs a consulting firm, said he was inspired to create Insight in part by his time as a youth pastor. He hopes the group will help young people of color build the kinds of networks that build careers.
Read more: http://www.bet.com/news/politics/2013/02/19/j-c-watts-launches-group-to-groom-minority-republicans.html
J.C. "Buddy" Watts Sr., father of former Republican congressman J.C. Watts, in 1999 said, "A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders." Back then, his son was the only African-American Republican in Congress and there's still just one. It is in part why Watts is taking steps to diversify his party by starting an organization called Insight.
Set to launch on Feb. 27, Insight will recruit students of color to serve in Republican offices, host professional development and policy forums and provide networking opportunities, Politico reports. The policy forums will kick off in March and focus on issues that affect ethnic minorities.
Watts, who runs a consulting firm, said he was inspired to create Insight in part by his time as a youth pastor. He hopes the group will help young people of color build the kinds of networks that build careers.
Read more: http://www.bet.com/news/politics/2013/02/19/j-c-watts-launches-group-to-groom-minority-republicans.html
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
How Indian Immigrants Could Save the Republican Party
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks to supporters at an election party this summer in Columbia, S.C. The child of immigrant parents, Haley's real name is Nimrata Randhawa.
That’s a good idea, but it’s going to take some time. It also doesn’t tackle the problem head on: The Republicans need to actually start looking more like America; they need real immigrant politicians behind real immigrant-friendly policies. It’s the only way to get over the party’s “angry white guy problem.”
Yet how to explain this: Two of the fastest-rising stars of the Republican Party are the children of Indian immigrants—Piyush Jindal and Nimrata Randhawa.
Never heard of them? That’s because most people know them better as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Both were elected in states that are more than 60% white. How did they cross the racial barrier? Fundamentally, they represent the parallel narratives of the Republican Party and immigrant life—family values, patriotism, hardscrabble work ethic, among them. But Jindal and Haley also reflect just what must be lost in order to make it as an immigrant Republican.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/politics/how-indian-immigrants-could-save-the-republican-party-20121113
Yet how to explain this: Two of the fastest-rising stars of the Republican Party are the children of Indian immigrants—Piyush Jindal and Nimrata Randhawa.
Never heard of them? That’s because most people know them better as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Both were elected in states that are more than 60% white. How did they cross the racial barrier? Fundamentally, they represent the parallel narratives of the Republican Party and immigrant life—family values, patriotism, hardscrabble work ethic, among them. But Jindal and Haley also reflect just what must be lost in order to make it as an immigrant Republican.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/politics/how-indian-immigrants-could-save-the-republican-party-20121113
Interview w/ Harmeet Dhillon, Chairwoman of the Republican Party
WomenNow recently sat down with Harmeet Dhillon, an accomplished attorney and chairwoman of the Republican Party in San Francisco. Harmeet shares her insights on politics, community involvement and how to engage in policy and policy making.
NAIRA Ashcroft Interview: US-India Relations
John Ashcroft, former Attorney General of the United States, speaks with with Nalini Raja from TV ASIA previous to the National Asian Indian Republican Association's 8th Annual Dinner on August 9th, 2009. In this clip, Mr. Ashcroft discusses the relationship between the United States and India. 6/6
Republicans and Sikh voters
Sikhs are a fairly small group of voters in America, so I’m always intrigued when a candidate reaches out to us.
I expected the Obama campaign to issue Diwali greetings and figured he’d direct it to Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. But I was quite surprised when the Obama campaign also sent a letter to the American Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee to wish everybody a happy Tercentenary Celebration of the Guruship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. It is a big holiday for Sikhs, but not one I expected any national politician to notice. (There were no official greetings from the McCain camp for either holiday)
As I’ve written before, these sorts of emails to the community are fairly cheap in terms of effort, and are a nice way to build good will, even if they tell you little about a candidate.
More important than holiday greetings was the difference in response by campaigns to the Sikh Coalition‘s first ever Voter Guide for Sikh Americans
. The Sikh Coalition is non-profit and non-partisan. Their guide invited responses from all presidential candidates (not just the major ones) including the Green Party, Socialist Party, Libertarian Party and even such ultra-fringe parties as the Prohibition Party and the Boston Tea Party.They received extensive replies from Obama (Democratic Party) and Gloria Riva (Party of Socialism and Liberation) and shorter replies from Ralph Nader (Independent Party) and Gene Amondson (Prohibition Party). The GOP did not reply.
Read more: http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/11/02/reaching_out_to_1/
Why Republicans Can't Harness Indian-American Patel Power
Why Republicans Can't Harness Indian-American Patel Power
Shikha Dalmia|
Mitt Romney might not have baptized any dead people lately, but 10,000 miles away in India a Hindu priest recently concluded a yajna on his behalf. A yajna is a nine-day prayer ceremony that, in this case, involved 16 local participants who poured 16 kgs of pure ghee on a sacred bonfire while chanting Sanskrit mantras and offering 100 kgs of barley to the Tantaric deity Bagula Mukhi.Kannubhai Patel, an Indian émigré, who moved to the United States 20 years ago and quickly acquired (guess what?) a chain of motels, paid for the entire event because he is a die-hard Republican and wanted to do something to help swing the polls in poor Mitt’s direction. So he called his friend and priest in his native village and instructed him to conduct the yajna to enlist Goddess Mukhi on Mitt’s side. When queried about the neck-and-neck results after the latest debate between Obama and Romney, the priest confidently predicted:
“There is still time. The result will be favorable.” But Patel is clearly an outlier in the 2.85-million strong Indian community, 84% of whose members voted for Barack Obama in 2008 -- second only to the 95% support that Obama drew among blacks. Even without Obama’s star power, 65% of Indians generally vote Democratic.
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/31/why-republicans-cant-harness-indian-amer
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The GOP's Big Asian-American Problem
Still overlooked in the immigration discussion are Asian Americans, who are the fastest growing demographic group in the country—and one of the most diverse. The bulk of Asian American immigrants (83 percent) come from China, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. At present, they’re 5.8 percent of the total population, nearly half of whom live in the West, with a large concentration on the Pacific coast. Seventy-four percent of Asian American adults were born outside of the United States, and in 2009—according to the Pew Research Center—Asian American immigration outpaced Hispanic immigration for the first time in recent history:
Read more: http://prospect.org/article/gops-big-asian-american-problem
Read more: http://prospect.org/article/gops-big-asian-american-problem
Saturday, February 9, 2013
"It's About Winning"
Check Out San Francisco Chronicle's Recent Story Featuring SFGOP Chairwoman Harmeet Dhillon
Harmeet Dhillon has the loneliest job in politics: chairwoman of the Republican Party in San Francisco, a very liberal city that former California GOP leader Ron Nehring described as "just to the left" of the capital of communist North Korea.
Dhillon, a tall, dark-haired attorney, has long been comfortable being the loud voice at the front of unpopular battles. Smart, blunt and outspoken, she is determined to make the GOP brand, which has been moribund in San Francisco for decades, relevant in the city and statewide.
She's a different kind of Republican.
Harping on social issues, she said, isn't the way forward. "Bottom line: It's a political party. It's not a philosophy, it's not a way of life, it's not a religion. It's about winning," Dhillon, 42, said in the direct, prosecutorial tone that dominates her conversations. "I'd like to see our party win."
The daughter of conservative Sikhs, she was born in India and raised in a rural North Carolina town, where a sign at the city limits encouraged passers-by to "Join the Support" of the Ku Klux Klan…
Monday, February 4, 2013
RGA Chairman Bobby Jindal's speech at the 2013 RNC Winter Meeting
RGA Chairman Bobby Jindal's speech at the 2013 RNC Winter Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1/24/2013
Bobby Jindal to 2016 hopefuls: Get your heads examined
GOP Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said in an interview that aired Monday that any Republicans thinking about 2016 need to “get their head examined,” while cautioning against “nonstop” presidential campaigning.
“Anybody on the Republican side even thinking or talking about running for president in 2016, I’ve said needs to get their head examined and the reason I say that is we’ve lost two presidential elections in a row. We need to be winning the debate of ideas — then we’ll win elections,” Jindal said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bobby-jindal-head-checks-for-2016-hopefuls-87132.html#ixzz2JydpRzft
Donald Trump: Bobby Jindal 'Stupid' For Calling GOP 'Stupid' (VIDEO)
"I think he was stupid for using that term, because that term is so obnoxious, and so good for the other side," Trump told the Fox News hosts. "He should not have used that term. That term is going to be living now with the Republican Party for a long time, and they're going to have his face on television saying it for the next four years."
Speaking at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting last month, Jindal urged his colleagues to talk "like adults" and cut out the type of "offensive and bizarre" rhetoric that had damaged the party's chances in a number of Senate contests last cycle. Missouri Rep. Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock of Indiana both took nationwide heat for their controversial comments about rape and subsequently lost their races in November.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/donald-trump-bobby-jindal_n_2615151.html
Friday, February 1, 2013
Why Do Indian-Americans Love Barack Obama And The Democrats?
BY Palash R. Ghosh |
Numbering some 3 million, Indian-Americans are becoming an increasingly important voting bloc in the United States – and if a recent survey is accurate, they will overwhelmingly support Democrat Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential election.
A poll last month by professors Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee and the National Asian American Survey (NAAS) revealed that a whopping 68 percent -- higher than any other Asian ethnic group – of Indian-Americans will vote for Obama, while Romney will attract only 5 percent support (25 percent were undecided).
Overall, 81 percent of Indian-Americans gave Obama high job approval ratings, despite the fragile U.S. economy and the president's attacks on outsourcing.
The dramatically strong support for Obama among Indian-Americans flies in the face of some contradictory realities -- Indian-Americans are among the best-educated and highest-earning ethnic groups in the country (a demography that typically favors the Republicans); and the two most prominent Indian-American politicians, Gov. Nikki Haley (South Carolina) and Gov. Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), are members of the GOP and stridently opposed to Obama. Jindal and Haley are regarded as potential GOP presidential or vice presidential candidates themselves.
So, why do Indian-Americans love Obama so much?
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/why-do-indian-americans-love-barack-obama-democrats-859890
A poll last month by professors Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee and the National Asian American Survey (NAAS) revealed that a whopping 68 percent -- higher than any other Asian ethnic group – of Indian-Americans will vote for Obama, while Romney will attract only 5 percent support (25 percent were undecided).
Overall, 81 percent of Indian-Americans gave Obama high job approval ratings, despite the fragile U.S. economy and the president's attacks on outsourcing.
The dramatically strong support for Obama among Indian-Americans flies in the face of some contradictory realities -- Indian-Americans are among the best-educated and highest-earning ethnic groups in the country (a demography that typically favors the Republicans); and the two most prominent Indian-American politicians, Gov. Nikki Haley (South Carolina) and Gov. Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), are members of the GOP and stridently opposed to Obama. Jindal and Haley are regarded as potential GOP presidential or vice presidential candidates themselves.
So, why do Indian-Americans love Obama so much?
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/why-do-indian-americans-love-barack-obama-democrats-859890
Indian American Republicans Blast Obama at RNC
The immense hope that brought President Barack Obama to office in 2008 has been dashed by his lackluster job performance over the past three-and-a-half years, said several Indian Americans who attended the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 27-30.
“We expected a lot but nothing has changed. America has become a third world country,” physician Sampat Shivangi, a three-time delegate to the convention from Mississippi, told India-West. “Obama has had four years already to change it and I doubt he can do it in the next four years,” said Shivangi, president of the Indian American Forum for Political Education, one of the oldest organizations of Indian American activists.
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan have both the vision and business acumen to turn the faltering U.S. economy around, stated Shivangi.
In an unprecedented move, four Indian Americans took prime-time spotlights at this year’s RNC. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley — earlier hinted as a possible running mate for Romney — took center stage on the evening of Aug. 28 and bashed the president for “fighting American ingenuity.”
California congressional challenger Ricky Gill – widely considered a rising Republican Party star – was delayed by a day from delivering his speech at the convention by the expected onslaught of Hurricane Isaac, which partially set back the RNC’s planned agenda. In his brief address on the afternoon of Aug. 28, Gill characterized California’s Central Valley – from where he is running — as “a cautionary tale of false policies” (I-W, Aug. 31).
Also in the limelight at the RNC were Milwaukee, Wisc., businessman Yash Wadhwa, who spoke on the convention floor Aug. 29. Wadhwa, who helmed an engineering consultancy firm for 22 years and is now running for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly, said Obama’s failed economic policies had turned the nation into a “tent city.” (See separate story.) And Ishwar Singh, president of the Sikh Society of Central Florida, made history as he delivered an invocation on the final night of the RNC, becoming the first-ever Sikh American to address a national convention from either party. (See separate story.)
Haley was born into a Sikh family but identifies as Christian.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was also scheduled to speak at the RNC, but stayed home as Hurricane Isaac prepared to blast into his state. This is the second convention Jindal has missed due to inclement weather; Hurricane Gustav kept Jindal from attending the RNC in 2008.
Republican political strategist Rina Shah, who attended the RNC, told India-West the convention “really enlightened a great many people,” including the crucial undecided Asian American bloc.
Read More: http://indiawest.com/news/6453-indian-american-republicans-blast-obama-at-rnc.html
“We expected a lot but nothing has changed. America has become a third world country,” physician Sampat Shivangi, a three-time delegate to the convention from Mississippi, told India-West. “Obama has had four years already to change it and I doubt he can do it in the next four years,” said Shivangi, president of the Indian American Forum for Political Education, one of the oldest organizations of Indian American activists. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan have both the vision and business acumen to turn the faltering U.S. economy around, stated Shivangi.
In an unprecedented move, four Indian Americans took prime-time spotlights at this year’s RNC. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley — earlier hinted as a possible running mate for Romney — took center stage on the evening of Aug. 28 and bashed the president for “fighting American ingenuity.”
California congressional challenger Ricky Gill – widely considered a rising Republican Party star – was delayed by a day from delivering his speech at the convention by the expected onslaught of Hurricane Isaac, which partially set back the RNC’s planned agenda. In his brief address on the afternoon of Aug. 28, Gill characterized California’s Central Valley – from where he is running — as “a cautionary tale of false policies” (I-W, Aug. 31).
Also in the limelight at the RNC were Milwaukee, Wisc., businessman Yash Wadhwa, who spoke on the convention floor Aug. 29. Wadhwa, who helmed an engineering consultancy firm for 22 years and is now running for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly, said Obama’s failed economic policies had turned the nation into a “tent city.” (See separate story.) And Ishwar Singh, president of the Sikh Society of Central Florida, made history as he delivered an invocation on the final night of the RNC, becoming the first-ever Sikh American to address a national convention from either party. (See separate story.)
Haley was born into a Sikh family but identifies as Christian.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was also scheduled to speak at the RNC, but stayed home as Hurricane Isaac prepared to blast into his state. This is the second convention Jindal has missed due to inclement weather; Hurricane Gustav kept Jindal from attending the RNC in 2008.
Republican political strategist Rina Shah, who attended the RNC, told India-West the convention “really enlightened a great many people,” including the crucial undecided Asian American bloc.
Read More: http://indiawest.com/news/6453-indian-american-republicans-blast-obama-at-rnc.html
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