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Did President Obama Turn Full Circle in India? (ANDREW B. WILSON, 11/12/10, Weekly Standard)

Barack Obama traveled halfway around the world, traveling to Mumbai and New Delhi last week. He also executed a remarkable 179-degree turn in his political and economic thinking. In India, he declared himself to be a proponent of free trade, globalization and deregulation.

Now that is an amazing change for this president. Whether it is a cause for hope, however, is a different matter.

Seeking, as he said, to dismiss the “old stereotypes,” Obama laughed at the idea that “There still exists [in the U.S.] a caricature of India as a land of call centers and back offices” used by U.S. companies to “ship jobs and profits abroad.” Now that might seem a little strange, as he and his union friends have been promoting those very “stereotypes” ever since the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign.

But so it went.

Traveling to India made him act American.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 14, 2010 6:44 AM