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2004-05-18 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Frank G 2004-05-18 10:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Whoa! That blew the needle right off my surprise meter!

Posted by Fred 2004-05-18 10:33:37 AM|| 2004-05-18 10:33:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Can you blame her? She strikes me as the subcontinent's very own Teresa Heinz Kerry. Despite having married into politics, she appeared to want nothing to do with the whole sordid business.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-05-18 10:43:37 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-05-18 10:43:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Mine, too, Fred; know where to get a good one?

There are governing families and then there are governing families. For every Kennedy or Saud, it looks like there's a Bush or a Ghandi . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-18 10:43:57 AM|| 2004-05-18 10:43:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Er, Gandhi.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-18 10:44:18 AM|| 2004-05-18 10:44:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 What I can't get is how it came down to this point. Everything I've ever seen about Sonja Gandhi suggests that she's uncomfortable with politics. Why was she coasting as the leader of the Congress Party? What the hell is wrong with these people, that they can't find someone who doesn't hate power politics to run things? It's not as if the leader of an opposition party doesn't have to play the game. Was she playing puppet for a eminence grise, so long as she didn't have to be responsible for policy decisions?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-05-18 10:55:24 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-05-18 10:55:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 this has a lot to do with her support by communist parties and the enormous drop in their stock market yesterday (I lost my ass on Janus overseas...crap). No confidence in her or her backers...

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-18 11:51:53 AM|| 2004-05-18 11:51:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Wise move - this will preserve the Gandhi mystique, and win new adherents from the other side. She can be the power behind the throne. In time, her children will grow old enough take up the reins of power.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-05-18 11:53:29 AM|| 2004-05-18 11:53:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Glad they nipped that whole prosperity trend in the bud. Could of put a lot of aid workers on the street with a few more years of that type of economic performance.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-18 12:06:00 PM|| 2004-05-18 12:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 You know, Zhang, I hadn't thought of that. Definitely possible, I suppose . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-18 6:14:26 PM|| 2004-05-18 6:14:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 SH... there's big money to be siphoned off in aid money. It's probably easier pickings than casinos. All you have to do is create a humanitarian crisis and the money is there for the taking.

Posted by B 2004-05-18 6:26:23 PM|| 2004-05-18 6:26:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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