RamaY Ji,RamaY wrote:SwamyG garu,
Generally a person is called idiot/stupid when that person 'demonstrates' a level of intelligence much below the average intelligence of the surrounding society.
So far has Rahul demonstrated below average (i mean very poor indian) intelligence for the level of access he has compared to other Indians. Imagine the scenario if Rahul were to be born in to a normal poor family.
On top of it Rahul tries to make fool of his audience by 'being' double smart. This makes me believe that his IQ must be half of what he really "projects" (imagine him without all those doggy advisers, Sanjay Jha boot lickers and favourable salivating media)
So I think we can safely conclude that Rahul's IQ is half of the IQ of a 12 day old kid.
I heard Rahul's CII speech.
Overall feeling that one gets sitting there was that he believes that NO one in that audience understands India better than him.
It was as if all other's in audience don't know better and that RG operates at a higher plane intellectually by connecting directly with India the CII audience don't know or don't care about. It was a fair argument but intellectual smugness of his speech writers and his advisers was on full display.
When you have a message (true or false) delivered with the kind of arrogance as he did then a lot of stuff bounces off the head as people develop instinctive dislike for such people.
As for his argument. It was in defense of MMS. He was justifying as to why MMS and his Govt was not able to get things done. His premise was that consultation and agreement of all stake holders is necessary to make decisions in country like India and that mechanism was broken. And at this point he somehow tried to make the audience believe that it was MMS's problem and he knows how to fix it.
Problem is that his advisers and speech writers somehow believe that India is Congress. Anything that is against INC is automatically against India. Basically what Rahul said was (this was said by PM too) that it is NOT in country's interest to have a NON congress Government hence to save the country they are forced to make all these deals with all kind of stakeholders specially coalition partner. We need to look at BIG picture you see...
On the other hand NM is pitching something entirely different. He and the BJP guys feel that there will always be vested interests on way or other. We just have to bite the bullet and the ends will justify the means. That within itself is a dangerous idea. Bush administration is a prime example of the same.
One -ve that ABV had was he lacked statecraft and the killer instinct to maintain power. He didn't go for the kill and became very sensitive to criticism that is usually hurled at Govt and party in power. May be because he spent too many years in opposition and like an ideal govt he dreamed of an ideal opposition that he didn't get. He thought his popularity will override everything and that was mistake. For this reason LK and SS do not qualify in my mind to lead the BJP.
NM has years of experience in power and his critics have conditioned him handle any kind for criticism or challenge. But once in power will have the killer instinct for not only delivering Good Governance and also have a statecraft which ensures his primacy remains intact is to be seen.
All in all, RG will be more effective than MMS and that is given because of the hold he has on INC political machinery. But just being better than MMS is no longer going to cut it now.
jai congress jai sickularism
(I looked at those buildings from the road so I contributed to his project)....