You could be right. You certainly have a good track record predicting these things.

But I still think it will be Hillary on the ticket come the election campaign. It just makes too much sense to disregard that likelihood. Biden will be 70 years old in 2012. Thats too old, and Hillary brings so much more to the table. She will be younger in 2016, when she will have the opportunity to follow Obama into the White House as the first female President, than Biden will be in the next election.

“It does not take Fareed Zakaria to point out the obvious. OF COURSE this is about race. It always has been.”

I think it goes beyond race, it is really about culture according to some white friends that live near the Southwest. There are large sections of the country near the border that really do not resemble America according to them, they have basically have become Mexico filled with Mexicans as opposed to Mexican Americans. Being desi I never really had issues with being a minority. But I am sure for the white majority, becoming a minority is your own neighborhood is likely and unusual and uncomfortable experience.

But as for Jindal, there is a bill pending in Congress right now sponsored by Rep. Vitter (R-LA) that would essentially declare Jindal an “anchor baby,” unless it can be shown that Jindal’s parents received their LPR status prior to his birth, 6 months after their arrival in the US.

And if a short form birth certificate could have been faked, couldnt Obama fake the long form just as easily? Or when the republican governor(at the time of Obama’s run) looked into the birth certificate, wouldnt he discover a fraud if the long form differed from the short form?

And if a short form Birth certificatre is not acceptable to some of these right wing kooks, why not have a bill outlawing such forms of Birth Certificate? Why not make every form the long form?

I see the standards change when it is not their guy at the top. What a waste of time.

You’re right! Also, since WWII, a Texan Democrat (Rep. Charlie Wilson) escalated the shipment of arms and money to Afghanistan/Pakistan to help turn the Soviets into kebab meat; Democrats won the War on the Deficit in ’98-’99-’00; and also, the bombing of Serbian camps under Clinton Saheb. That being said, the Republicans are definitely more pugnacious, and they should get credit for a lot of wars as well. For example, they were winning the War on Rationality and the War on American Unity.

Obama had a Pakistani roommate and friend in college. He visited Pakistan at his friends invitation. I think he just has a more realistic understanding of the Pakistani/Desi mentality.

You’re so right about this. Also, Obama lived in an Islamic country for a while, and his dad’s side of the family were all Muslims. He has a feel for Islamic cultures, but most importantly to me, he has a curiosity about all cultures in general, and Islamic culture in particular, perhaps. Past presidents, perhaps a reflection of their monochromatic upbringing, were more fixated on the Country Club Culture (the CCC), and if they were progressive, Working White Women (the WWW). Also, they had the luxury of not thinking of other cultures and its nuances, I suppose, since the USA was an arrogant hyper-power. Obama is a more humble citizen-of-the-world type-of-guy. Who’s got b*lls the size of Monsoonal Mumbai Mangoes (the MMM).

By the way if you go back to the time of the election campaign, you will see that Abhi predicted in this forum that Obama would focus on Pakistan, unlike Bush. Turned out to be prescient.

Way to go Abhi!!!! Many folks on SP make great points.

Here are my predictions going forwards: 1. Pakistan will be a client-state for China, in much the same way that Hungary/Poland were client-states of the Soviets. 2. India will be closer to the USA and the Western nations. The close ties with Russia will be maintained. 3. India maybe a pawn somehow. 4. Pakistan will have more instabilities. How? I’m not sure yet, but eventually, the country will be partitioned again. Baluchistan and/or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may their own autonomty. Most of the people of Quetta are Pashtuns anyways, so those two entities maybe part of a Greater Pashtunistan, which many of them want anyways. 5. A huge war between India and Pakistan? Since Pakistan has less and less to lose, more terrorist attacks against India will certainly happen that are more audacious and spectacular than anything 11/26 ever was.
6. Some states within India are lagging behind economically. There will be instability there as well.