Election time Tamaasha

One report in a popular daily said Varun Gandhi topped the popularity list after his hate speech ahead of his senior colleagues in the party who dream and strive for the similar kinda fame.. no matter if its in the negative side..as long as it will be helping them for their political mileage. Varun is now a well known BJP leader nationwide and it shouldn't be forgotten that he has just debuted into his political career. For the Hindu fanatics he's a hero and he's getting pats from all sorts of Hindu fundamentalists groups. During all these ugly polity tactics in the name of caste and creed which is nothing but just sheer communalism I was expecting a just and a responsible statement from his mother Maneka Gandhi, also a BJP leader and a staunch animal rights activist.

Courtesy : Jose cartoons

She's the one who raised voice against the ill treatment towards the animals and asked for an equality for those guileless creatures. Especially the circus guys and film makers who involved animals bore the brunt of hers and had to pay heavily legally and financially. She had an image that if you trouble an innocent animal there are fair chances that likewise you too would get troubled by Maneka Gandhi for that. I would jokingly ask my younger kins not to harass the pet or Maneka gandhi would put them behind similar kind of cages where animals are confined !
And after this Varun Gandhi episode she has strongly come out in his support blindly backing her son for whatever he said was correct and there was nothing he should be sorry of. She should surely support her son but not acknowledging the fact that those remarks were quite inflammatory for a minority community it was disappointing. He clearly violated the model code of conduct but they didn't, according to them..their excuse was it had been doctored. !!

Where's the morality of Maneka Gandhi now..? She has always asked for a fair treatment towards the animals but when it comes to humans' fair and equal treatment irrespective of their communities her integrity gets lost in the shuffle just because here her son is involved ?

Every election year we get to see moral standards touching new lows. The so-called leaders giving provocative and irresponsible remarks and surprisingly getting substantial benefits out of it. The Britons left long back but they sadly didn't take the "Divide & Rule" policy along with them.

Lowly politicians getting undeserved publicity by making believe their respective communities that its solely them who's safeguarding their interests by abusing and dishonoring the other communities and thus successfully able to grow seeds of communalism in their people without them having any inkling that its all politics.
It has been happening every now and then but we are just silent spectators.

At the end of it all the question is ..who is really responsible : The politicians or we the public ???

Pro Palin..but not a Pro McCain-Palin

I was so eager to watch Palin-Biden debate & was expecting to see Sarah Palin going great guns in one of the world's most highly anticipated vice-presidential debate..though sadly I wasn't able to watch it, I managed to get a transcript of the whole proceedings together with some experts' feedbacks and what I could make out from it was she was unquestionably able to live up to the expectations encompassing her. I'm quite happy about it for I'm pro Palin and this endorsement is there cuz I've high regards for this woman and there are a flurry of reasons and explanations for this reverence.

Having said that this backing is limited till her encounter with senator Joseph Biden Jr. as I have no sympathies with the Republicans. Its strange that though I strongly abhor the Republicans' policies n ideologies (especially talking of its imperious foreign policies) I am exhibiting favoritism towards Sarah Palin but for the reason you got to read "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment on Its Ear," by kaylene johnson & the chances are even you'll become an admirer of the governor of Alaska. Anybody having an interest in world politics must be aware of Palin's executive experience..prowess with a gun in the woods or the lakeside fishing but the book speaks of those minute details cuz of which what she is now today & what made McCain choose her as a vice-presidential candidate for the Republicans.

Back to the debate of yesterday which I was talking about Sarah Palin must have made McCain feel good this time after her series of not so good interviews. Her adversary Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. Was not going to be a piece of cake anyways but she managed to survive it. McCain is already a man in distress & there were some talks about her basic qualifications for the VP Office which was surely adding up to his woes but after this highly anticipated debate which certainly gave him a sigh of relief & would help him to concentrate on his other troubles shading his campaign. Her feisty performance must have raised the spirits of the conservative Republicans who were so dejected since she was nominated & I heard that some of them from the conservative block are coming forward to acknowledge that “her performance will re-energize the conservative base,”.

Palin and Biden's debate was pivoted to the economy and diplomacy.
"You're darn right it was the predator lenders,..there was greed and corruption on Wall Street."...She was putting the Wallstreet responsible for the United State's one of the worst economic crisis which has eventually led to a global economic slowdown...on the other hand Senator Biden blamed few of the crisis on deregulation policies that Republican presidential candidate John McCain believes in. "McCain voted for deregulation and that is why we are in the crisis that we are in," he said. (Even I feel the same, that its all a good lesson for the Republicans who believe and keep banging the drum for a market that would administer and regulate itself with minimal government interference ).

Shifting to international issues Palin was quick to accuse Obama of voting against funding for U.S. troops in combat & chastised Biden for defending the move, "especially with your son in the National Guard headed for Iraq..!!"
Biden was even quicker to counter-attack.."John McCain voted against funding for the troops, as well.." adding that the Republican presidential candidate had been "dead wrong on the fundamental issues relating to the conduct of the war." He didn't reply to Palin's mention of his son, the attorney general who's scheduled to fly to Iraq with his national Guard unit on Friday..

Due to the growing public interest on Palin's performance, cuz of the governor's largely unknown political skills & her mistakes made during recent interviews the debate had been expected to be a TV hit..& as a matter of fact it turned out to be one, becoming the most watched vice presidential debate in the U.S. history..The debate set a new record for a VP debate beating the previous high set by the VP debate between Democratic Geraldine Ferraro and then-vice president George H.W. Bush; in addition to that it also very easily succeeded in beating their running companions' debate (the debate between Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain a week back) by a large margin.
There are talks like who did the better job at the end..who was more likable..and so on.. but to me what matters is that both the candidates crossed everybody's expectations with their performances, especially Palin who I feel will make her critics do a rethinking who hold a wrong opinion about her. I'm eagerly looking forward to get the recorded version of this televised debate.