From her pictures it looks like she and her kids have a similar complexion/hair to me (i.e. olive toned, dark hair) and her daughter actually has blue eyes (she actually uses her Indian name here too which is interesting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32938591@N04/3163539286) so I could see why people could just assume she is white. But I think she is also on the borderline and could be just as easily construed to be of Indian Ancestry… People generally assume I am white (which I am) but if they hear my fiance is Indian and/or that I studied Indian culture the first question is always “Oh, are you from India?” or “Are you part Indian?” and I don’t think I look Indian at all personally, but that is how people’s minds work I guess… ethnicity= looks + context.

Right. Because ‘Nikki’ translates as ‘little one’ (female) in Punjabi. (Did people note how Nikki Haley spells that phonetically, not privileging the anglicized ‘Nicky’).

Nicky is also a very common Punjabi nickname. I have a cousin whose real name is Harpreet, her nickname is pronounced Nik-ay, and she writes her name down as Nicky. I have a brother called Bobby.

The first two are essentially one post, but the three column format makes it hard for people to read a single long post. This should have gone up weeks ago but I was busy. The Raghead-in-Chief was written from the early report of Knott’s comments, and was earnest political analysis. The MSM is still working off of this version of remarks. The Manchurian Gobi Candidate was written after a longer purported version of his comments became available, and was humor.

It’s the Andrew Sullivan model of blogging, more shorter posts on a running topic rather than a single omnibus post. I don’t know if it’s a good or a bad idea, but I thought I would try it. I wont usually have the time for this though.

BTW, did anyone notice that the one film personality Nikki Haley looks most like, is the most googled person in the world – Katrina Kaif (i.e., not so much the other KK – Kareena Kapoor whose name came up). What’s most interesting is that Katrina Kaif has recently starred in a movie by Prakash Jha, which is, of all things, about politics, called Raajneeti (‘politics’ in Hindi).

Raajneeti is an out and out political film, at last, and the only love in this story is love for power and yet more power.To attain that kursi, anything goes. Fathers are killed, sex is used as blackmail, daughters are deployed as bargaining chips and entire families destroyed, all in the name of raajneeti.

Also, Nikki Haley and Knotts have a history – here they go at each other in the SC Legislature. (The clip is posted today by her campaign, but it is from earlier.)