A couple of months back, PolitiFact found that Obama has kept around 91 of his promises out of 500! This should not be surprising, as breaking promises has been a trend associated with all the American presidents.

Take for instance Woodrow Wilson who promised to keep the US out of World War I and ended up pushing the US into the same war. Then came Herbert Hoover in 1928, who pledged to end poverty but eventually gifted the US 'The Great Depression'.

On similar lines, Franklin D Roosevelt graciously failed to fulfil his 1932 pledge to keep the US out of World War II when he bombed Japan. Richard Nixon promised resolutely in 1968 to 'quickly' resolve the Vietnam War, but he didn't!

The approval rating of Obama in India has dropped from 31 per cent in 2008 to 18 per cent in 2010, thanks to his policies

Let me now come to Obama's much-hyped visit to India. If numbers speak volumes, then Obama's recent approval ratings in India are not encouraging. As per the latest Gallup Poll, they have dropped from 31 per cent in 2008 to 18 per cent in 2010, thanks to the policies he has come up with recently.

He made his stand clear on India's outsourcing business and announced that tax breaks will go to companies that create jobs in the US and not overseas. On October 22, 2010 he announced a whopping $2.29 billion in military aid to Pakistan to bolster its army's anti-terror capabilities, thus ignoring India's concerns about how Pakistan diverts such assistance for anti-India plans.