Obama transition creates India briefing team

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: CNN

The Obama transition team has set up a special team to interact with the State Department’s Operations Center as well as the office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to an Obama aide. That information is then being filtered to President-elect Obama, who is getting regular updates at his residence here in Chicago. He was scheduled to be home all day Thursday celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends.

An Obama spokesman told reporters the president-elect had spoken by phone with both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen.

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[Poll_Blind]

1. Holy shit this guy is on the ball. 8 years of an incurious dolt have...

...almost caused me to forget how impressive a president...a real president is supposed to be!

PB

[DeepModem Mom]

2. I had the exact same thought! As you say, a REAL President. I think...

maybe a great one.

[dkf]

3. Obama is scary good.

He is on it.

[varun]

4. I have high hopes from Obama.

I think he will finally call Pakistan what it is - a breeding ground for terrorism.

[babylonsister]

5. And don't forget Joe Biden...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7932526&mesg_id=7932526

snip//

Biden, by the way, is a pretty good advisor on the region himself: Among other things he was the Senate steward of the controversial US-India nuclear cooperation bill earlier this year, which meant quite a lot to New Delhi. And with his usual hyperbole, he also told an online Indian outlet two years ago: "My dream is that in 2020 the two closest nations in the world will be India and the United States."

[ohio2007]

7. They better not keep Pakistan "out of the loop"

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C11%5C09%5Cstory_9-11-2008_pg1_5

cuz thats the way diplomacy works over there.

[Muttocracy]

6. one more reason I wish Obama was in office already. nt