While his five-star stay continues to drive the headlines in New Delhi, Union external affairs minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna poses with US President Barack Hussein Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly, in New York City on Wednesday.
Photograph: Lawrence Jackson/ The White House
Superb photo! Great header!
SMK rubbing shoulder with the tall and the mighty…great pic..
However, Michelle Obama appears to rubbing something else on SMKs shoulder ;)
I agree with DPS (just this once!)
Lilliputian Krishna needs a strong speechwriter — and urgent lessons in public speaking — if he is to succeed as India’s top diplomat. I heard charming Obama at the United Nations, and then I heard logical Netanyahu, and I heard passionate Chavez… and I heard boring Krishna.
mp saar,
with due respect, i am getting tired and bored and am “like, whatever” with all of obama’s speeches. his speeches are fine prose, but way too politician-esque or should i say hollywood-esque for my taste. my fault, bcoz it was i who got carried away by all the pamphlet peddling and advertising by the media and assumed something else from him. no, i am not giving you talking points from faux news.
SMK cannot be a forceful speaker ever, for he has this constant fear of his false dentures falling out of the mouth and creating a scene.
Remember, the photo posted by Churmuri, some time back showing him how he was hanging on to his wig, when somebody was trying to put a Mysore Petha on his head :)
SMK is not the right candidate for Foreign minister. He is not forceful, aggressive. His measured and softish replies are not effective either, his goof ups with the Taliban not withstanding
Dear tsubba,
As for a brief list of Obama’s achievements see this:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977801671
And you are bored by fine prose?
For eight years, the previous incumbent in the White House not only devastated Iraq but also the English language.
I suppose with Obama in charge, you miss such gems as these:
“Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.” —George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000
“I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.” —George W. Bush, Dec. 20, 2000
“They misunderestimated me.” —George W. Bush, Nov. 6, 2000
“That’s a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. ” —George W. Bush, on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” —George W. Bush, LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
“Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is — I’m not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I’m the president.” —George W. Bush, during the third presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000
“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.” —George W. Bush, Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000
“The woman who knew that I had dyslexia — I never interviewed her.” —George W. Bush, responding to a magazine article claiming he suffered from dyslexia, Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000
“We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.” —George W. Bush, Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2000
“Actually, I — this may sound a little West Texas to you, but I like it. When I’m talking about — when I’m talking about myself, and when he’s talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.” —George W. Bush, Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” —George W. Bush, Reuters, May 5, 2000
“The fact that he relies on facts — says things that are not factual — are going to undermine his campaign.” —George W. Bush on Al Gore, New York Times, March 4, 2000
“I don’t have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university.” —George W. Bush, Today, Feb. 23, 2000 (He meant tenets).
“I understand small business growth. I was one.” —George W. Bush, New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
“If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.” —George W. Bush, Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” —George W. Bush, Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
“What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don’t know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that’s my position.” —George W. Bush, as quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —George W. Bush, Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
“If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.” —George W. Bush, Jan. 2000
“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.” —George W. Bush
“I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
“We are fully committed to working with both sides to bring the level of terror down to an acceptable level for both.” —George W. Bush, after a meeting with congressional leaders, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 2001
“One of the interesting initiatives we’ve taken in Washington, D.C., is we’ve got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire is a — a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone.” —George W. Bush, Denver, Aug. 14, 2001
“There’s a lot of people in the Middle East who are desirous to get into the Mitchell process. And — but first things first. The — these terrorist acts and, you know, the responses have got to end in order for us to get the framework — the groundwork — not framework, the groundwork to discuss a framework for peace, to lay the—all right.” —George W. Bush, referring to former Sen. George Mitchell’s report on Middle East peace, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 13, 2001
“My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the — in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen.” —George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001
“It is white.” —George W. Bush, asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 2001
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.” —George W. Bush, May 14
“First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.” —George W. Bush, on the Kyoto accord, April 24, 2001
“This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We’re making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.” —George W. Bush, April 10, 2001
“But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the—that don’t let people in to take a look and see what they’re up to. They’re very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we’ll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.” —George W. Bush, in a media roundtable discussion, March 13, 2001
“My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.” —George W. Bush, in his budget address to Congress, Feb. 27, 2001
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” —George W. Bush, Feb. 21, 2001
“We’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House — make no mistake about it.” —George W. Bush, Feb. 7, 2001
“I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will.” —George W. Bush, speaking about Saddam Hussein, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 5, 2002
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
“There’s no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide.” —George W. Bush, Oklahoma City, Aug. 29, 2002
“I’m a patient man. And when I say I’m a patient man, I mean I’m a patient man. Nothing he [Saddam Hussein] has done has convinced me — I’m confident the Secretary of Defense — that he is the kind of fellow that is willing to forgo weapons of mass destruction, is willing to be a peaceful neighbor, that is — will honor the people — the Iraqi people of all stripes, will — values human life. He hasn’t convinced me, nor has he convinced my administration.” —George W. Bush, Crawford, Texas, Aug. 21, 2002
“The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.” —George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
“We’re working with Chancellor Schröder on what’s called 10-plus-10-over-10: $10 billion from the U.S.,$10 billion from other members of the G7 over a 10-year period, to help Russia securitize the dismantling — the dismantled nuclear warheads.” —George W. Bush, Berlin, Germany, May 23, 2002
“And so, in my State of the — my State of the Union — or state — my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation — I asked Americans to give 4,000 years — 4,000 hours over the next — the rest of your life — of service to America. That’s what I asked — 4,000 hours.” —George W. Bush, Bridgeport, Conn., April 9, 2002
hey
Krishna is not short, Obama and michelle are abnormally tall