Obama´s trip to India - what will it cost?

Yes, it was sarcasm.
But based on facts.
There were many people on here after 9/11 that charged that Bush was out of communication when he was on AF-1, and when he was at his ranch.

If you admire the Taliban so much go visit them on their home turf and don't forget your olive branch, when they cut off your arm it will make a nice decorative touch.

Really, what is it that would prevent a "pretty big liberal tree worshiping never votes Republican kind of girl" from wanting to review the facts? That doesn't sound all that liberal to me.

You're about as factual as The Tea Party, that's why I have no interest in your facts.

You've shown me nothing but the rantings of a political nutjob desperate for attention. Good-bye, JTT.

And according to you the US has done nothing good for the world.
You seem to think that all of the worlds problems, back to the dawn of time, are the fault of the US.

I am finding those posts now, because I knew it would be challenged by you and others.
After I find 3 for you, will you be man enough to admit I was right and they were wrong?

Economics to override politics during Obama's visit to India
Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN,
Oct 28, 2010, 08.28pm IST
WASHINGTON: Number of times US officials referred to the economic agenda in a preview on Wednesday of President Obama's upcoming visit to India: 26. Mention of jobs for Americans and promoting US exports: 17 times. References to strategic ties with India: Three times.

Officials who briefed the media on the three-day trip left little doubt that, at least for now, against the backdrop of a bleak domestic political scenario and unsparing electoral compulsions, President Obama would pursue an agenda aimed at furthering US economic interests (and jobs), sidelining the strategic quotient.

There will be no far reaching endorsement of India's push for a permanent UNSC seat, although officials re-asserted the Bush-era mantra that "India's rise and its strength and progress on the global stage is deeply in the strategic interest of the United States."

But furthering that strategic agenda might have to wait pending domestic US compulsions and India's own internal deliberations on handling American overtures. For now, the major focus "will be his message on economics, on increasing exports, supporting jobs back here, including highlighting some commercial deals that we hope to have consummated by that time," US Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Mike Froman, said.

Officials declined to provide details and figures about the commercial deals, preferring to leave it for a triumphant announcement during the President's visit, but they indicated it would be in the billions, much of it aimed at generating jobs in America. In return, there is also likely to be an announcement regarding New Delhi's demand for lifting of embargo on hi-tech exports to India, which will also help the US economy.

In fact, Obama will be spending almost two days in India's financial and commercial entrepot Mumbai, against just a full day in New Delhi, as he aggressively pursues the US economic agenda.

"With 1.2 billion people and an economy expected to grow at 8 percent a year for the next several years, we really see India as a potentially very important market for US. exports," Froman said, candidly adding, "that's the reason why the President will be there, focusing, on the first day, on the economic and commercial relationship."

Questions at the White House briefing for the domestic media -- there was a separate one for Indian journalists -- expectedly centered on outsourcing, call centers, and the flight of jobs to India. Froman and other US officials sought to provide some perspective, pointing out that India's own growth also generated jobs in the US and that Indian companies are the second largest fastest growing investors in the US, supporting about 57,000 jobs.

"So it's a fast-growing economic relationship. And it's a two-way street as well," Froman explained.

Beyond the incessant talking up of the American economic agenda, officials rejected the idea that the US-India ties had stalled, and pointed to various engagements, including military exercises, and atmospherics, to maintain that it is on song. The President's visit, they said, affords the opportunity "to lift this relationship up to a new level where India is really a strategic partner for the United States in the region and in the world."

How they hope to accomplish this without a decisive, big-ticket item like the nuclear deal – such as an endorsement for a UNSC permanent seat – was not clear.

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 27, 2010
Press Gaggle on the President's Upcoming Trip to India
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

PRESS GAGGLE
BY PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS;
UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS
WILLIAM BURNS;
DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS MIKE FROMAN;
AND DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION BEN RHODES

** The audio from this portion of the transcript may be used for broadcast.

1:06 P.M. EDT

MR. GIBBS: Let’s go ahead and get started. Just to remind you, this is -- we're going to walk through the India portion of the upcoming foreign trip. We will do, likely tomorrow, the non-India, non -- sort of G20-APEC stuff tomorrow. And we'll probably do the economic stuff the beginning part of next week, probably on Monday.

Q What time tomorrow?

MR. GIBBS: I do not know the exact time tomorrow, but we'll get that around.


There’s no embargo on this and obviously we are on the record. We are going to hear from three people today: Ben Rhodes, who you know -- the Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications; Mike Froman, the Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs; and Bill Burns, our Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

So, with that, let me turn it over to Ben.