# Obama's visit to India **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 4, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473 "2010-11-04T15:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/81 "2010-11-07T03:20:30Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Stop this and say you’re sari. I gather from you and your pun challenged compatriots ooohh so clever yuckfest, that you have nothing of note to add to the debate, I mean this being Great Debates and all. ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/82 "2010-11-07T13:27:24Z")
The President laying out his plan for the future economic growth of the United States, recognizing the key role of India and other Asian countries. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/opinion/06obama.html?\_r=2&ref=opinion](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/opinion/06obama.html?_r=2&ref=opinion) ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/83 "2010-11-07T14:02:14Z")
> [@Apollo](#): > > I gather from you and your pun challenged compatriots ooohh so clever yuckfest, that you have nothing of note to add to the debate, I mean this being Great Debates and all. What debate? If there is one, it sure ain’t great. A factually incorrect statement got spread around, at times purposefully by people who wished to make political hay out of nothing. That has been exposed and dismissed as nonsense. I’d say we’re done. Meanwhile, I’m having trouble thinking of a pun that includes the word ‘mulligatawny’. ---
**Author:** ![Gestalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/90ced4/32.png) [@Gestalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gestalt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/84 "2010-11-07T22:17:37Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > What debate? If there is one, it sure ain’t great. > > A factually incorrect statement got spread around, at times purposefully by people who wished to make political hay out of nothing. That has been exposed and dismissed as nonsense. I’d say we’re done. > > Meanwhile, I’m having trouble thinking of a pun that includes the word ‘mulligatawny’. As a Person of Indian Origin, I’m able to speak for the entire subcontinent. As such 1. **Apollo** ’s statements about the prevalence of food-based puns in this thread being evidence of Americans dismissive attitude to India are baseless 2. No one knows how mulligatawny soup ended up on all Indian restaurant menus in America ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/85 "2010-11-08T14:08:56Z")
I’ll ask David Coverdale’s ex-wife. I’m sure she knows. And just to make sure she takes it seriously, I will ask her to “mull it good, Tawny.” … best I could do … ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/86 "2010-11-08T14:41:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Lastly, why would the anonymous Indian official who supposedly broke this bogus story… For what it’s worth the source may himself be just fictional or been some correspondent’s brother-in-law’s cousin’s drinking buddy who’s dating the sister of an assistant under-vice-secretary. As I mentioned once way back (on another international issue) in many parts of this world the USA is fair game for any wildly exaggerated claim of profiglacy (or even be EXPECTED to meet some outrageous standard). When for most of the world’s population ten thousand dollars may as well be ten million, you may feel that fabricating a story that the USA is spending $200 million a day on visiting your country can be a way of saying “hey, look how important they think we are”. Or conversely, “hey, look how wasteful those Westerners are”. ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/87 "2010-11-08T15:56:01Z")
Alright, so just days into the presidents visit he has already announced a multibillion dollar trade deal potentially worth tens of thousands American jobs and endorsed India to get a permanent seat at the UN security council. Which if implemented would alter a balance of power unchanged since the Second World War. I wonder what else will come out of this visit. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/88 "2010-11-08T17:16:35Z")
A few more Puns and some Jabs at Obama? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/89 "2010-11-08T17:24:45Z")
If Bachmann a respected right winger and high powered politician and Fox New the great American news force says what it costs, it must be so. Why would Bachmann stretch the truth? She would risk her credibility. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/90 "2010-11-08T19:22:55Z")
GE and Westinghouse have gone along with Obama to try and get the build of nuclear plants in India. India insists of some serious insurance. They have not forgotten Bho Pal. General Dynamics and Dow, cut back on the quality of the building, skimped on safety, did not have a warning system in place and did not have a system in place to tell the people breathing through a wet cloth could have saved them as they escaped the area of the gas cloud. It was 1984 but they still remember. GE is hoping to get Obama to advocate for them and negotiate a lot of the regulations away. I was listening to some Indian spokesmen today. ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/91 "2010-11-08T20:01:06Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > GE is hoping to get Obama to advocate for them and negotiate a lot of the regulations away. > I was listening to some Indian spokesmen today. Perhaps lax safety and environmental regulations might be good enough for the Americans, but I would wager that India today require higher standards for its people. They simple might not be good enough, oh well maybe the Germans would be interested? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/92 "2010-11-08T20:51:44Z")
Did someone turn on the English \> Pidgen English translator in this thread? Reading the last few posts is making my hair hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Apollo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@Apollo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473/93 "2010-11-08T21:25:53Z")
Maybe you’re having a stroke? Seems legible enough to everyone else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-visit-to-india/559473.md?page=4)