NATO announces that they have confirmed that 20 of their member countries will send more troops to Afghanistan. So this is the answer to all those critics who questioned that why Obama’s popularity is not translating in anything tangible. I am not saying this as a support for the Obama but just that a smart move can give some benefits at the end of the day.

He removed the cage rattling Missile Defense Shield with Eastern Europe and got some edge off of Russia. That gave some leverage in other negotiations like Iran and troop levels in Afghanistan. I think his moves are good comparison to a chess player. If he gets his way in few of the moves then i think US will be much better off and we can shrug off the losses we made under Bush.

NATO is also understanding that this war in Afghanistan is a shared global responsibility. Obama did a good job of make this war a true global responsibility then what we had under “Coalition of willing”.

Let’s see what comes out of this whole effort.

CNN is making a right decision to give Lou Dobbs a much needed break from all his crazy talk.  I was a big fan of CNN but since the Immigration debate under the Bush Administration got heated up. I also liked Lou Dobbs when he was doing good commentary on economy. Both CNN and Dobbs fell off my radar when Dobbs started getting “Foxinated” ( I know it is a good term that i just coined !).

Dobbs increasingly got narrower in his opposition and before he knew it was too late. I am sure that the general public may not know about this but there are some deep scares he left within the Immigrant Communities. I have seen posts on the internet about how Dobbs’ efforts have ruined lives etc. I know it is not true but in a quest to get good ratings he took CNN to the journey where the network was on a slippery slope.

Thank god  there is a media president who wants to stick to pure news. It was a good decision for Jon Klein and may be CNN will get back viewers like me who care about straight news but the perceived anti-immigrant tone turned them away.

Best Luck CNN !

It seems clear that not listening to Obama on the Healthcare timetable is going to be a big miss that Dems will pay a big price. It started from yesterday in the off year election and I hope that they realize it the hard way. Obama made a very good calculation (it had all the good political calculations backed in) when he wanted to have the August deadline for the health care bills. It would have been perfect for the party to show some proof. But guess what happens when Dems are in charge. They do not know how to get their priorities through. Max Baucus wasted a lot of time in getting some support from Republicans and they played a nice hand. They gave him some mirage to chase for few months and at the end they walked away.

If the HealthCare bill would have passed the mood will be totally different for the voters. They would have something to jump on. The core alliance that supported Obama would have seen “the change they can believe in”. But the congress failed Obama and it only takes one slip in this kind of political environment to derail the whole Agenda. Now they are talking about the Healthcare will be done in January 2010. Do you really believe that any conservative Dems will have balls to vote for it after what they have seen in this election ? Does anyone believe that now Republicans will even think of showing any “support” for any legislation ?

It is going to be harder for Dems going forward and i hope that they get defeated in the 2010. If they cannot govern with super tight majority, they are better off without one.

Google is at it again. The same way they did with the internet search technology they are doing with the mobile OS (and i was waiting for that). I always thought that the GPS Navigation was overrated in this era where Google Maps is everywhere. It is so easy to develop upon and share with your custom maps. Long behold and Google does it. That’s what i like about Google is that they TAKE BOLD STEPS. Microsoft always try to play it safe and that is their main issue. Google has baked its Android 2.0 with so many features inside it, we will be getting surprised for next few months with what it can do.

With its voice activated search capabilities it is taking the whole GPS market down and coming up with brand new technology that will spawn the virtualization of the Billboards that we see on the roads. Guess what Google can do with its voice activated search capability ? It can get advertising revenues from all those restaurants, hotels and everything that you would advertise on billboards.

That is not it. The Droid has the high-end features expected from a top-tier smartphone including Wi-Fi, 3G on Verizon’s EV-DO Rev. A network, assisted-GPS, Bluetooth, and a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus and video-recording capabilities. The Droid will come with a 16GB memory card, and users will be able to download new programs from the Android Market, as well as download music tracks over the air from Amazon’s MP3 store.

It is just a start. Buckle up your seat, Google is driving !!

It seems that there is a political timing at work here when it comes to job creation. I clearly see that the Obama Administration is gearing up to make sure that the jobs activity gets picked up at the right time. If history is any guide the Obama team did the same with their main rival campaign. It may be too late or the size of the US economy will give some challenges to them.

I am bit concerned with them on this front as they may have hard time with the jobs creation.

I jus saw www.Recovery.Gov with some new data. It is really slick website especially coming from our government. I have seen some pale websites from govt. before, but this time around i see a totally new twist where the government is really showing that they can also do some cool stuff.

I feel that it will take some time for the people to get used to the government that actually works. Lots of [old] people in congress are talking about the government cannot do this and that, but if they keep the bar this up very soon it will apparent.

What all the people including Democrats are missing is that this guy is truly transformative and he means the business. Unfortunately, it will take some time to change the reputation of the government. Till then, we shall wait…

So slowly the numbers starts to add up. Last week it was 30,000 construction jobs and this week it is 250,000 education jobs. It will be very hard for Republicans next year because they are still hoping to have the unempoyment around 10%. If the numbers keep getting better by week what it will look like in few months ?

Still the Republicans will try to spin this as failure for the Obama Team when i really think they should get behind the efforts to get some credits. They keep saying NO to everything and the results are improving everyday. It will be hard before we get full recovery but if you see the way this whole stimulus is crafted, by the early next year it will be in full swing and it will outshine all the arguments Republicans are planning right now to take back the congress.

Best Luck to them !!

Let’s face it. The GOP is in some deep trouble. They would like to think that 2010 is in their bags but that what they thought when Obama was nominated. They found out the hard way how polished his internet machine was on the election day. So for Republicans, they should start with some basic building blocks just like the Dems did with an internet revolution. It all started with MoveOn.ORG and its supported chipping away public opinion from the Bush Administration and formulated a mass movement on the internet that Obama tapped in.

The Republicans have done some tinkering with having a some bloggers. There is a good energy out there but what they lack is genuine activists who feel about getting the party back to the power through some sound ideas rather than Obama bashing. If you recall Obama did not win the election just by bashing Bush (although i can say that for the Nobel Peace Prize !). If Republicans really want to win, they should gather people who want to beat Obama by proposing better ideas to the issues.

I started this blog to see if i can start something out of the box. I will start my twitter account and will blog about a chosen topic that people suggest me on the twitter. Please start giving me some exciting topics that i can work on.