{"id":6109,"date":"2008-06-30T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/06\/obama-and-hanuman\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:03:37","slug":"obama-and-hanuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/06\/obama-and-hanuman\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Hanuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In the last few years, Indian-Americans have become great fund raisers for the Presidential elections.  For example the NY <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/hanuman.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">Resturanteur Sant Singh Chatwal has raised millions for Hillary Clinton.  So, a lot of smart politicians in the US want to do business with the Indian-Americans and have them on their side.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is not unaware of that.  So what does he do?  The guy who has been swearing in every way he can about the infallibility of Christ as the only savior.. has been carrying a small idol of Hanuman, a Hindu God.  So, that helps him connect with the Hindus\/Indians and makes him a topic of conversation in every Indian family living room engaged in the political process.<\/p>\n<p>Actually Obama seems one who believes in a lot of charms:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 bracelet belonging to an American soldier deployed in Iraq,<br>\n\u2013 a gambler\u2019s lucky chit,<br>\n\u2013 a tiny Hanuman and<br>\n\u2013 tiny Madonna and child<\/p>\n<p>Politicians are by nature superstitious and prone to lucky charms so in that sense its not so astonishing.. but it is nevertheless fairly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if all these Gods and lucky charms will get him his goal?<br>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few years, Indian-Americans have become great fund raisers for the Presidential elections.  For example the NY <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/hanuman.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\">Resturanteur Sant Singh Chatwal has raised millions for Hillary Clinton.  So, a lot of smart politicians in the US want to do business with the Indian-Americans and have them on their side.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is not unaware of that.  So what does he do?  The guy who has been swearing in every way he can about the infallibility of Christ as the only savior.. has been carrying a small idol of Hanuman, a Hindu God.  So, that helps him connect with the Hindus\/Indians and makes him a topic of conversation in every Indian family living room engaged in the political process.<\/p>\n<p>Actually Obama seems one who believes in a lot of charms:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bracelet belonging to an American soldier deployed in Iraq,<br \/>\n&#8211; a gambler&#8217;s lucky chit,<br \/>\n&#8211; a tiny Hanuman and<br \/>\n&#8211; tiny Madonna and child<\/p>\n<p>Politicians are by nature superstitious and prone to lucky charms so in that sense its not so astonishing.. but it is nevertheless fairly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if all these Gods and lucky charms will get him his goal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama and Hanuman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the last few years, Indian-Americans have become great fund raisers for the Presidential elections. 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