So, where do they stand on issues that are crucial for India?
Apparently while McCain is conservative in his outlook, Obama seems to be more of a liberal. On one end we have Barack Obama, who is has had fundamental foreign exposure from the ground up, going back a long way into his youth, unlike his Republican John McCain. He even mentioned in one of his interviews that he had been in Karachi and Sind, Pakistan for about 3 weeks and has been closely associated with the sub-continent. He has a lot of Pakistani and Indian friends and so, unlike most of his predecessors, he is pretty aware of the culture and situation in these countries. The facts that he carries with him a small idol of Hanuman (after he came to know about Ramayana) and that he has a lot of Indian-American supporters in his campaign are good signs for India. His pronouncing Pakistan and Gandhi correctly also show that he because of his eclectic and unusual upbringing may be different from the other leaders. But this apart, Obama is against the military war against terrorism and has
