Saturday, November 15, 2008

Obama doesn't phone India or the Philippines

This is from the asiatimes.
They should be happy that they have not received calls. Obama may want help with more troops for Afghanistan or perhaps funding to help the US bailout. If they are really Obama fans they could always phone as Medvedev did. Of course no one might answer.


India reels over Obama's silence
By M K Bhadrakumar
Diplomatic predicaments can at times be almost laughable. Indian officials were scurrying around like headless chickens because 120 anxious hours had passed and United States president-elect Barack Obama had not yet put a phone call through to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - as he has done to at least nine other heads of state. The Indians could learn a thing or two from the Kremlin. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev found himself exactly in Manmohan's predicament when by November 8 his Kremlin telephone still had not rung. But 43-year-old Medvedev did a smart thing. He put a call through to Chicago
to the 47-year old president-elect. The Kremlin thereupon went ahead and publicized the
call.

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