When I asked an American friend recently if they thought there was any way Obama would miss his bid for reelection, she quipped, "No way. There`s no one that can get him. And besides, we gave Bush 8 days to crash the land the least we can do is give Obama a 2nd condition to keep to fix it."
My country, India, may be the world`s largest democracy (with a hella lot more than 2 political parties that gain seats in government - even a democratically elected communist state government! but we are not without our problems. There`s been a reasonable number of intelligence in India lately about corruption issues, so often so that a politician named Anna Hazare recently became a wedge for "pulling a Gandhi" and publicly fasting until anti-corruption legislation got fast-tracked. Millions of people stood behind him and his efforts got results.
Russell Simmons, my friend otherwise known as the "CEO of Hip-Hop" and a political activist, best-selling author, philanthropist and practicing yogi, has likewise been supporting my upcoming (and first all-American) film, Politics of Love (formerly Love, Barack), I think mainly because of it`s even-handed but hard-hitting political message wrapped up in a fun rom-com. Even our film`s logo is all about working together for the usual good: an elephant holding hands with a donkey!
Besides an amazing cast that includes the great Loretta Devine, the legendary Ruby Dee, hottie Brian White, profane Gerry Bednob and yours truly, I`m told it`s the first film where a Republican falls in bed with a Democrat, and likewise the first movie with a black Republican lead character.
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I may have been the envy of a billion Indians when I met President Obama recently in Los Angeles, even more so when I met him a bit time at the White House Correspondents Dinner - but who am I to gloat?
No matter how the approval polls waver in the U.S. the American president continues to be a rock-star in the balance of the world. I try my best to read the opponent to him here stateside as good as of those people who

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