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India as a rising power good for the US: Obama

June 4, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, June 4 (ANI): In witty and often rousing remarks at a Thursday reception hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her Indian counterpart S M Krishna at the State Department, US President Barack Obama reiterated how central and important India was to the US.

“It””s rising power and a responsible global power. That””s why I firmly believe that the relationship between the United States and India will be a defining partnership in the 21st century,” Obama said.

Obama described the India-United States relationship as “fundamentally unique” because of their common interests and common values,

Washington, he said valued the partnership “not because of where India is on a map, but because of what we share and where we can go together.”

“India is indispensable to the future that we seek – a future of security and prosperity for all nations,” Obama said.

The President was in a particularly jocular vein with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, subtly challenging her hold on the India portfolio and trumping her Mark Twain quote rhapsodizing about India with a Max Mueller observation he dug up about the glory of India.

“So when it comes to the sphere of our work — building a future of greater prosperity, opportunity and security for our people, there is no doubt: I have to go to India. But even more, I am proud to go to India,” Obama said.

Obama, when he makes the trip, will be the sixth American President to visit India after Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George Bush (43). (ANI)

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Obamas enjoy “middle class” holiday in North Carolina

April 24, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, April 24 (ANI): US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are said to have flown off to North Carolina on what has been seen as a “middle class” vacation.

The Obamas had spent their holidays last year in Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts island frequented by millionaire businessmen and celebrities, the Telegraph reports.

The two left Washington on April 23 without their children for a long weekend in Asheville, nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west of the south-eastern state.

Asheville, a city of about 73,000 people, is home to the Vanderbilt family’s lavish Biltmore estate and also has dozens of art galleries and elegant restaurants.

The White House revealed the Obamas will be staying at Asheville’s most famous hotel, the Grove Park Inn, which claims that 10 presidents have stayed there.

On his last visit to Asheville, in October 2008, the final month of his presidential campaign, Obama complained that he did not have the time to play golf on the hotel’s private course, and vowed to return.

North Carolina may also have been chosen because Obama was the first Democratic presidential contender to win the state since Jimmy Carter in 1976.

The White House said the Obamas had no plans while in North Carolina, other than golf, although the president is scheduled to speak at a memorial service on April 25 for the victims of the recent coalmine disaster in Beckley, West Virginia. (ANI)

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Jimmy Carter ‘hopeful’ on Sudan elections

April 12, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Former United States president Jimmy Carter says he hopes today’s election in Sudan will be free and fair.

His organisation, the Carter Centre, is monitoring the poll.

The landmark poll – Sudan’s first multi-party election in 24 years – is being marred by opposition boycotts and Western criticism.

But speaking in Khartoum, Mr Carter said he hoped the elections would live up to international standards:

“I’ve talked with all the other party leaders about the election and preparations for it,” he said.

“I hope that it will be safe and free and fair, and that the decisions of individual voters will be expressed freely without intimidation as they cast their ballot, and that … the election be tabulated honestly and fairly.”

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Some Americans think opposition to Obama’s policies is based on racism

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep. 18 (ANI): Some Americans, including former President Jimmy Carter, believe that those who are opposing US President Barrack Obama’s policies have a racial element against him instead of simple disagreement.

According to a recent Fox News poll, 65 percent Americans think that opposition to Obama’s policies is based on honest disagreements, while 20 percent say it is mostly motivated by racism.

However, Black voters are twice as likely to say the opposition is motivated by race, with 63 percent citing racism as the reason for opposition and 27 percent say it is based on honest disagreements.

Most white voters (71 percent) say the opposition comes from honest disagreements.

Most Republicans (87 percent) and independents (69 percent) believe that opposition to Obama’s policies is based on honest disagreements, while 48 percent Democrats say honest disagreements and 34 percent say it is motivated by racism, the poll found.

Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters with a 3-point margin of error.

The poll also found that 54 percent of Americans think Obama is a “new kind” of politician, while a large 39 percent minority says he is a “typical” politician.

As for Obama’s handling of health care, 44 percent approved and 48 percent disapproved.

Obama received better ratings on his handling of the economy (55 percent approve) and on the war in Afghanistan (51 percent).

By a wide 60 percent to 27 percent margin, Americans think the country has become more divided rather than more united since Obama took office in January, the poll found. (ANI)

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Carter says Republican lawmaker’s outburst against Obama was racist in tone

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep.16 (ANI): Former US President Jimmy Carter has said Republican representative Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.

“I think it’s based on racism,” the Daily Express quoted Carter, as saying.

“There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president,” he added.

“Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national programme on health care. It’s deeper than that,” Carter said.

Wilson, from South Carolina, was formally rebuked on Tuesday in a House vote for shouting “You lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress last Wednesday.

The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson’s outburst.

The rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility.

Republicans characterized the measure as a witch-hunt, though Wilson had already apologised to Obama. The GOP is insisting that he owed the House no apology. (ANI)

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Bush’s court appointments emphasized ideology over diversity

July 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 12 (ANI): A new analysis has indicated that the judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggest that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity.

The analysis was done by Jennifer Segal Diascro, a professor of government at American University’s School of Public Affairs, and Rorie Spill Solberg, a professor of political science at Oregon State University.

The examination of all the federal judicial appointments during the two terms of his presidency shows that Bush did make a number of diverse appointments, especially Hispanics, but the overall number of minority judges in the federal courts did not increase during his tenure.

“Bush cared about diversity, but it was not his first priority,” Diascro said. “We suspect that he had many Hispanic conservatives from whom to choose when filling vacancies on the bench, yet he chose to appoint traditional candidates instead,” she added.
ccording to the analysis, when compared with all presidents since Jimmy Carter, Bush maintained the status quo in appointing nontraditional judges to the bench.

He appointed more men (78 percent overall) than women (22 percent) and more Caucasians (82 percent) than minorities (18 percent).

When comparing total appointments, the study found that Bush appointed more white females (50) than Carter (32), Ronald Reagan (27) or George H.W. Bush (31), but fewer than Bill Clinton (83).

He appointed more Hispanic females (12) than Clinton (5), but fewer African American females (8 compared to 15) than Clinton.

Like Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush often appointed minorities to seats for political gain or for ideological purposes, Spill Solberg explained.

“There is a tendency, and we see this across the political spectrum, to use bench appointments to gain clout with certain voters,” said Diascro.

“The Bush administration was actively courting the Hispanic vote, so it isn’t surprising that he made more appointments of Hispanic judges than African Americans, but it was often also based on judicial philosophy,” she added.

According to Diascro, “Not so for African Americans. By the time Bush left office, the proportion of seats on the court of appeals held by African Americans had increased by only half a percent.”

“Replacement patterns are key to understanding efforts to increase diversity on the bench,” she said.

“Presidents may appoint a number of nontraditional judges, as President Bush did, but if their appointments maintain the status quo and don’t add nontraditional judges, then their impact is less than it could be,” she added. (ANI)

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Obama more popular than his predecessors after first 100 days in office

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Washington, Apr.27 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has emerged more popular than any of his recent predecessors in his first 100 days in office, according to opinion polls./pp
Barack Obama currently has a 63 per cent job approval rating, reports The Telegraph./pp
Two major opinion polls showed on Sunday that Obama remains as popular as the day he came to office, with about two-thirds of Americans approving of the job the young Democratic leader is doing in the White House, despite war weariness, an enduring recession and a row over torture./pp
Obama’s 63 per cent job approval rating at this stage in his first term beats his predecessors George W Bush, at 56 per cent in 2001, Bill Clinton on 55 per cent in 1993 and George Bush Senior on 58 per cent in 1989, according to the US pollsters Pew./pp
But he comes in lower than Ronald Reagan’s 67 per cent in 1981 and equals Jimmy Carter’s figure from 1977, according to the survey, which had an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points./pp
A Washington Post poll found that 69 per cent approved – strongly or somewhat – of his performance so far, with 58 per cent approving of his handling of the economy and rising numbers feeling confident about the nation’s economic future./pp
The president’s first three months have been dominated by efforts to put the economy back on track. He has passed a 787 billion dollar stimulus bill and proposed a 3.6 trillion dollar budget, prompting Republicans to accuse him of socialism or bankrupting future generations by high government spending. /pp
So far those criticisms have not registered with the public, according to both polls./pp
Public opinion is however much more divided on the issue of torture and prosecution of US officials who may have approved it or engaged in it, the first issue that has unravelled beyond Mr Obama’s control./pp
Just over half of respondents supported the president’s decision to release Justice Department memos that provided legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques that critics claim are torture./pp
There was a similar split on the question of whether or not Bush officials should be investigated for breaking laws regarding torture, with 51 per cent in favour and 47 against in the Washington Post poll./pp
Obama appears to have met the public’s expectations, with 61 per cent saying he was done as well as they expected and 25 per cent saying he has done better, and nine percent saying he has done worse, said Pew. (ANI)/p

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SIDEBAR: Mexico City prepares for rare visit from US president

April 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mexico City prepares for rare visit from US presidentMexico City – Only five US presidents have visited Mexico City in the past 100 years, but one more name will be added to the list Thursday with the arrival of President Barack Obama.

Obama is set to visit the city, which was once ancient Tenochtitlan – the former capital of the Aztec civilization, on Thursday, 12 years after the last visit of then-president Bill Clinton. The city is today the second-largest in the world in terms of population, with 19 million people in its metropolitan area.

The only residents of the White House to have visited the Mexican capital so far are Harry Truman in 1947, John F Kennedy in 1962, Lyndon Johnson in 1966, Jimmy Carter in 1979 and Bill Clinton in 1997.

William H Taft attended the first official meeting between the presidents of Mexico and the United States in 1909 in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, and other US presidents have also preferred other Mexican cities, like Monterrey, Presa Falcon, Acapulco, Ciudad Acuna, Merida, San Francisco del Rincon, Los Cabos or Cancun. (dpa)

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The Obamas become 11th US First Family to meet the Queen

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 4 (ANI): President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have become the 11th US First Family to meet with the Queen.

The Royal meeting is said to have been the most touchy-feely gathering that anyone could ever remember, especially after the Queen and Michelle Obama hugged one another, doing away with the Palace protocol, reports the Mirror.

The Obamas gave the Queen an iPod loaded with hits from musicals, while Her Majesty presented them with a framed photograph of herself.

The meeting between them is said to have gone off without a hitch, and for the Queen meeting with a US President is no longer a new thing as she has met with 11 of them during her 57-year reign.

The first US President that the Queen met was President Harry S. Truman in 1951, two years before her coronation, followed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959.

The Queen then met John F. Kennedy in 1961, Richard Nixon in 1970, Jimmy carter in 1977, Ronald Reagan in 1982, George Bush Snr in 1991, Gerald Ford in 1976, Bill Clinton in 2000, and George W. Bush in 2003. (ANI)

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Rich Bush and Clinton declared `fat cats’in new book

February 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, Feb.9 (ANI): THE heat is on George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to give up their precious perks.

In “Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents,” out this week, Leonard Bernardo and Jennifer Weiss claim that while early commanders-in-chief lived their later years on modest incomes, today’s ex-presidents are fat cats.

“Cashing in on the presidency has become routine,” the New York Post quotes both, as saying.

“Following the examples of wealthy individuals like Lee Iacocca, Michael Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who at times have taken a salary of a dollar a year or less, would it not behoove our former presidents who earn millions, tens of millions, even, to decline their taxpayer-funded pensions?”

They note that Jimmy Carter didn’t accept money for his staff’s benefits and Ronald Reagan refused his health-insurance policy.

In recent years, Clinton has cleaned up on the lecture circuit and as a rainmaker for billionaire Ron Burkle. (ANI)

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Former U.S Presidents’ presence makes Obama’s swearing-in extra special

January 21, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Washington, Jan.20 (ANI): Barak Obama’s swearing-in ceremony would be rememberd for many easons in the Untied States’ history

The ceremony, which believed to have cost America over seven billion rupees making it the costliest wearing in ceremony to be held at Capitol, was attended by the foreign dignitaries and celebrities rom around the world.

But one of the special attractions for everyone was the presence of all the living former U.S residents, who graced Obama’s swearing-in with their presence.

The list included America included Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Senior George H.W.Bush and his ife, Jimmy Carter and the former first lady Rosalynn, and outgoing President George W. Bush long with Dick Cheney. (ANI)

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Obama’s autographed pictures with former US presidents may go for 6000 dollars

January 20, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Washington, Jan 20 (ANI): Barack Obama’s autographed pictures with former US Presidents, which will bw an collector’s item, may go for 6000 dollars.

Obama, along with presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, agreed to sign 250 prints of a staff photograph.

Each president will eventually receive 50 copies that have been signed by all five of them, according to a White House official and an Obama transition aide, Politico.com reported.

Early estimates value the signed pictures at more than 6,000 dollars apiece, based on the rarity of such a meeting and how few copies of the photograph will be circulated. That value could push higher when collectors factor in Obama’s popularity and historical significance as the first African-American president.

“You’re going to see these valued and collected and sought after in a similar fashion as the previous ones, and when you’re talking about a president that’s very popular at the moment, that has to help,” said Steven Hoskin, president of the Professional Autograph Dealers Association.

This curious practice dates back to 1981 when all four living presidents gathered at the White House before Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat’s funeral and later autographed copies of the photo.

But it turned into a more coordinated effort, with a pre-set limit on the number of copies, when the presidential club gathered in 1991 for the dedication of Ronald Reagan’s library in Simi Valley, California, the website said.

Obama will be the last of the five presidents to sign the photographs. His aides expect him to receive them some time over the next few weeks. (ANI)

|China to modernize military while pursuing peaceful development|World[Beijing{Beijing, Jan.20 (ANI): China on Tuesday issued a White Paper on national defense, pledging to be committed to the peaceful development and advance its military modernization.

The paper for the first time unveiled China’s ambition to “basically accomplishing mechanization (of the military) and making major progress in informationization by 2020″ and “realizing modernization by the mid-21st century.”

The white paper on “China’s National Defense in 2008″ was issued by the Information Office of the State Council, Xinhua reported.

Vowing to strengthen the military by means of science and technology, the paper said China was working to “develop new and high-tech weaponry and equipment, conduct military training in conditions of informationization and build a modern logistics system in an all-round way.”

On China’s military strategic guideline of active defense, the paper said this guideline “aimed at winning local wars in conditions of informationization.”

On the current effort to streamline the armed forces, the paper said China is aimed at developing a complete set of “scientific modes” of organization, institutions and ways of operation by 2020.

The paper for the first time specified in detail China’s long-standing policy of “no first use of nuclear weapons.”

“In peacetime, the nuclear missile weapons of the Second Artillery Force are not aimed at any country,” the paper said while reaffirming the country’s will to implement “a self-defensive nuclear strategy.” (ANI)

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Bush leaves presidency with ‘lowest in history’ 22 percent approval ratings

January 17, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

New York, Jan 17 (ANI): Only 22 percent of Americans have said they approved President George W Bush’s performance over the last eight years, as he prepares to leave office, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

The public opinion toward him shows no softening in stance with 73 percent respondents disapproved of his performance over the course of his two terms.

Disapproval cut across party lines, with Democrats, independents and even 34 percent of Republicans critical of Bush’s performance, The NYT reported.

In contrast, Bush’s most recent predecessors left office with approval ratings ranging from 68 percent, for both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, to 44 percent, for Jimmy Carter. Bush’s father left with 54 percent approval ratings.

When asked to assess Bush’s presidency more precisely, just 17 percent of those surveyed rated it very good or good, while 83 percent said it had been average or poor.

Fifty-nine percent of Americans regarded Clinton’s presidency as very good or good when he left office, and 40 percent viewed the presidency of the elder Mr. Bush the same way.

The public’s assessment of the president’s handling of both the economy and the war in Iraq was markedly negative. Seventy-seven percent disapproved of Bush’s management of the economy, and 71 percent faulted his handling of the war.

In surveys that began with Gallup polling in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bush has the distinction of being the president with both the highest and lowest approval ratings. The highest, 90 percent, was recorded shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

The campaign against terrorism is one area in which he continues to win a measure of support from the public, with 47 percent approving of his handling of the issue and 48 percent disapproving.

Republicans were particularly supportive of him on the subject of terrorism: 87 percent approved of his administration’s actions to fight it. (ANI)

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Bush’s office leaving approval ratings worst after Nixon’s and Truman’s

January 15, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

Washington, Jan.15 (ANI): Outgoing US President George W. Bush’s approval rating now stands at 34 percent, but according to the latest Gallup poll, his overall rating is the third worst in US history.

Going back to the 1950s, only Richard Nixon and Harry Truman have had lower ratings when they left office, CBS reports.

Jimmy Carter’s approval rating was also 34 percent. Every other president’s approval stood at 49 percent or better. Bill Clinton had a 66 percent approval rating.

And, as Gallup notes, ” In one sense, Bush’s final rating is worse than either Carter’s or Truman’s, because his disapproval score is significantly higher. Whereas Bush and Carter share identical 34 percent final job approval ratings, 61 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Bush is doing, compared with 55% who said they disapproved of Carter in December 1980.” (ANI)

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