WHAT MORE COULD AN AMERICAN ASK...:

The Best American President India's Ever Had: That's George W. Bush. (Ashok Malik, 11.03.09, Forbes)

On Oct. 30 and 31, George W. Bush visited New Delhi and Bombay for meetings with India's political, strategic and business establishment. In the Indian capital, he addressed an audience of federal government officials, parliamentarians, business executives and foreign policy wonks that comprised the most receptive gathering the former American president had encountered in a long, long time.

As Bush left the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit--a high-profile conference organized by a leading Indian newspaper--the ambassador of a major country, a NATO ally, could be seen shaking his head, recovering from the standing ovation the 43rd president had received on his way out (a repeat of the effusive applause on his way in): "Can't think of too many countries where he'd get such a reception ... India and Israel maybe ..." "And Poland ..." his interlocutor added. "And Poland ..." the ambassador repeated, still a little dazed.

...than to be loved in India and Poland?

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 3, 2009 1:28 PM