VP Biden to Indian Prime Minister: “You’re the Hottest Ticket in Town”
EmailABC News’ Karen Travers reports: Vice President Biden, ever the gracious host, told Indian Prime Minister Singh that he is the most popular man in Washington today. “There’s a phrase Mr. Prime Minister here in this country: ‘You’re the hottest ticket in town,’” Biden said to laughter at a luncheon at the State Department hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Singh’s honor. "I want you to know that we could not find a room big enough in America to accommodate all the people who wanted to come to lunch with you,” the vice president said. “You think I’m joking. I am not.” Perhaps by limiting the guest list, the State Department in fact was able to find a room to accommodate the luncheon, holding it in the Benjamin Franklin room at Foggy Bottom. Singh is getting the red carpet treatment in Washington today, from the White House welcoming ceremony this morning to a state dinner in his honor tonight on the South Lawn. Over 300 guests are expected at the White House for the dinner, the first of the Obama Administration. “We've come here and you've come here to strengthen a relationship that's already strong, to build on our vibrant past and also to forge what…must be and will be an even greater future between India and the United States,” Biden said. Biden noted that this week is the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack in Mumbai that left more than 170 dead. “This is coming up on an anniversary of a very sad event in your country, the terrorist attack in Mumbai,” Biden said. “And no one need tell you, Indian population or India leadership, that we have a common concern about terrorism in the world.” Biden also acknowledged New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who was in the audience for the luncheon and who wrote “the book The World is Flat,” which focused on globalization and the importance of India to the global economy. ”As a famous American journalist wrote about, ‘The World is Flat.’ It is flat,” the vice president said. “[T]he truth of the matter is, the flatter it is, the more consequential it is, Mr. Prime Minister, that we work together, that we're on the same page.” Secretary Clinton spoke about the importance of a “strong and sustainable partnership” with India and said the two nations would work together on security, science and technology and increasing political, economic and social opportunities for women around the world. Biden quoted Gandhi in his toast: “‘As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.’ I would argue that, as we adapt to this new century, as we enter this new era of growth and prosperity, as we remake ourselves, that India and America and our partnership will help remake the world.” -Karen Travers
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Has Obama been asked about the leaked emails on climate change that reveal data manipulation and cover ups on global warming? Does the WH have any opinion on this, and whether or not it should impact the cap and trade legislation?
Are the people allowed to have any input into the decision of what the U.S. takes to Copenhagen next month? Do Americans have a say in what we will agree to abide by, or is all this being done by diktat from above? Do we get to vote on this?
Where’s the truth? Where’s the democracy?
Posted by: mr | November 24, 2009, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Well, at least he knows how to suck up.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 24, 2009, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm
Where’s the truth? Where’s the democracy?
mr | Nov 24, 2009 5:46:06 PM
Not in your post, and in November (respectively).
Posted by: jhw539 | November 24, 2009, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
“Have you jokers heard about Climate Gate and (yet) another Obama Czar involved in suppression of real data?”
Interesting that this latest right wing tempest in a teapot comes out right after Coal industry PR flacks had to appear before Congress for forging letters from Veterans organizations (among others) to Congressman falsely claiming those groups were against cap and trade.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.
Posted by: Ryan C | November 24, 2009, 6:43 pm 6:43 pm
Has Obama been asked about the leaked emails on climate change that reveal data manipulation and cover ups on global warming?
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It’s fairly apparent from the reporting of the legitimate news reporters who have actually worked their way through the email material that there is almost nothing in the emails that in any way damages the enormous body of scientific work supporting global warming.
Posted by: tierra | November 24, 2009, 6:54 pm 6:54 pm
“It’s fairly apparent from the reporting of the legitimate news reporters who have actually worked their way through the email material that there is almost nothing in the emails that in any way damages the enormous body of scientific work supporting global warming.”
BINGO!
Posted by: Ryan C | November 24, 2009, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm
Good grief….so much negativity. Gracious speech by Biden. He’s right, there’s much to be gained by both countries if they work together and hopefully it will serve as a counterbalance to China’s ever-growing power in the region and globally.
Posted by: Paige | November 24, 2009, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm
Nuthin like a suckup! They make good politicians actually, for obvious reasons.
Posted by: Kash | November 24, 2009, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
For those who have never done research,the appearence of fudged data(ie,attempts to hide the MWP in Dr. Jones data) invalidates the data and conclusions drawn thereof.The desperate attempts in some of the e-mails to explain why the predicted warming has not taken place reveal real fears about the validity of the hypothesis; attempts to suppress conflicting data are evidence that the authors have stopped being scientists and are instead advocates.Scientific truth can stand alone; it does not need suppression of data.
Posted by: Nephron | November 24, 2009, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
I would never use “legitimate news reporters” as a basis for evaluating scientific fact.Most do not have a degree in any scientific field,some have no degree at all.I find it incoceivable that an individual who doesn’t understand Boyle’s Law could determine what is or what is not important in the hacked e-mails.
Posted by: Nephron | November 24, 2009, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
Maybe Biden can get him a 7-11 store . Joe said an Indian accent was a requirement .
Posted by: nat turner | November 24, 2009, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Posted by: Nephron | Nov 24, 2009 8:44:04 PM
Sure Nephron, I’d rather believe some right wing blogger’s interpretations of the emails than the scientific community. Sure thing . ..
Posted by: tierra | November 25, 2009, 12:28 am 12:28 am
“It’s fairly apparent from the reporting of the legitimate news reporters who have actually worked their way through the email material that there is almost nothing in the emails that in any way damages the enormous body of scientific work supporting global warming.”
BINGO!
Posted by: Ryan C | Nov 24, 2009 6:58:50 PM
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Try again. This time, CBS is reporting the fraudulent climate change now. Will ABC be next or last?
Posted by: Jenny | November 25, 2009, 8:58 am 8:58 am
CBS is reporting the fraudulent climate change now. Will ABC be next or last?
Posted by: Jenny | Nov 25, 2009 8:58:31 AM
Please tell us exactly what the CBS “report” said without the usual lack of comprehension exhibited by partisans with an anti-science agenda, though its unclear what you’re trying to say. What I saw at the CBS website was one blog titled “Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails” quoting the anti-science flake Inhofe about a possible Congressional probe of the leaked emails, noting that –
“complicating matters for congressional Republicans who’d like to hold hearings is that East Anglia, of course, is a U.K. university.”
Are you falsely trying to claim that CBS is reporting that climate change is fraudulent, despite the fact that global warming theory (and, btw, the theory of evolution) is supported by vast amounts of evidence. For scientists to give up the theory would require extraordinary disputing data – data that a few emails talking about massaging data to give the best possible conclusion simply cannot provide. And yet you claim CBS is too unsophisticated to understand that?
I hope not. I worry about our press. The larger story is the timing and illegality of the hack– and that the emails seemed to have been sent directly to deniers, many with financial reasons to be skeptical of positive for the rest of us throughout the world and our children when it comes to energy policy and changing our behavior.
Posted by: Cari A. | November 25, 2009, 11:28 am 11:28 am
In one e-mail, the center’s director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University’s Michael E. Mann and QUESTIONS WHETHER THE WORK OF ACADEMICS THAT QUESTION THE LINK BETWEEN HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND GLOBAL WARMING DESERVE TO MAKE IT INTO THE PRESTIGIOUS IPCC REPORT, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — EVEN IF WE HAVE TO REDEFINE WHAT THE PEER-REVIEW LITERATURE IS!”
In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can PRESSURE AN ACADEMIC JOURNAL NOT TO ACCEPT THE WORK OF CLIMATE SKEPTICS WITH WHOM THEY DISAGREE. “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal,” Mann writes.
Posted by: ClimateGate | November 25, 2009, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
“there is almost nothing in the emails that in any way damages the enormous body of scientific work supporting global warming.”
loo. That’s like saying there was “almost nothing” to support the claim that Bill Clinton had sex with “that woman”, Monica lewinsky. lol
Posted by: Sigmonde | November 25, 2009, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
loo. That’s like saying there was “almost nothing” to support the claim that Bill Clinton had sex with “that woman”, Monica lewinsky. lol
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Actually, no it isn’t. We’re talking scientific research confirmed over many years, not the word of one man.
And it isn’t like saying ‘there are weapons of mass destruction and we know exactly where they are’ . .
Posted by: tierra | November 25, 2009, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
The desperate attempts in some of the e-mails to explain why the predicted warming has not taken place reveal real fears about the validity of the hypothesis; attempts to suppress conflicting data are evidence that the authors have stopped being scientists and are instead advocates.Scientific truth can stand alone; it does not need suppression of data.
Posted by: direct quotes | November 26, 2009, 6:17 am 6:17 am
Bident says that the Indian Prime Misister is the ‘hottest ticket in town’
Washington is full of people hell bent on selling out American workers
Could it be a coincidence?
Posted by: John | November 27, 2009, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm