OMG! I didn't know that! Thanks! I'm gonna put that in my email too. Hopefully giddyup can help us get to the bottom of it.
Yeah I do. I am curious what in your mind constitutes the 'extreme right'. If it's anything other than Christian-bashing, I would really like to know. Seriously, I have never studied Jindal, I wouldn't want an extremist on the Right any more than one on the Left. Who are these 'extreme right' that Jindal panders to? What is their agenda? And why is it so bad? ..unless you were just throwing around baseless buzzword-allegations.. in which case, never mind.
I don't live in Louisiana, but I worked there for 3 years, and now support a plant there and spend about 20% of my work time in Louisiana. The answer to this question is an resounding yes. Kathleen Blanco was, by far, the most incompetent governor in the country. She's an idiot who was in over her head and didn't have a chance of doing a good job. Jindal may not be in long, but he is a wonderkid who was President of LSU at 26, and has been very aggressive about cleaning up Baton Rouge politics.
Shhhh... don't interrupt their bashing of the man.. at least he has them all talking about how young and inexperienced Obama is... LOL
I live in Texas and know enough to understand what a disaster Blanco was. I think one reason she beat Jindal in the 2003 runoff was last minute jitters about his race. He finished 1st in the initial vote, 33% to 18%, and looked good for the runoff, but the extra time for LA voters to think about it worked against him. In last year's election, her sorry performance paved the way for brand new direction. When I ask my LA customers about him, they don't want to comment. It's as if they dislike him but don't want to admit it. When I go to Kenner next month, I'm going to pull some real answers.
Looks like the talk of a McCain veep this week is theater only. McCain's handlers are sorry. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/07/mccain_veep_pick_feint_or_for.html?hpid=topnews McCain Veep Pick: Feint or For Real? Conservative columnist Bob Novak's piece in which he suggested John McCain might well pick his vice president this week set off a firestorm around political Washington late yesterday afternoon as reporters and operatives scampered to follow the Prince of Darkness's reporting. Subsequent reporting -- by The Fix, Jmart and others -- suggests that while McCain is in the final stages of making up his mind on who to pick, that no decision is imminent. And, moments ago in an interview with Fox News Channel -- first reported by The Page -- Novak said that a senior McCain aide had passed along the information to him and suggested he put it up on the Web. "I have since been told that this was something to get a bit of publicity, to rain on Obama's campaign," Novak said, according to a transcript from ShadowTV. "That is reprehensible, if true. We will find out if what I was suggesting was true or a scam." So, was the story -- which The Fix helped to push by reporting that McCain was slated to huddle with Gov. Bobby Jindal (La.) tomorrow -- simply a feint -- and a well executed one at that -- by the McCain campaign or the genuine window into a far more accelerated decision-making process for the Arizona senator that was previously believed. Our strong sense is that the feint option is the more plausible. McCain's campaign knows full well that it was going to be tough to tear the media away from their coverage of Obama in the Middle East. But, what better way to do that than offer a bit of what looked like genuine news on the vice presidential front? The pull of vice presidential news is among the most powerful in political reporting; journalists see it as the big "get" of the presidential cycle and always remember who broke the identities of the vice presidential picks in each election. By giving cable news and the blogosphere something else to talk about, the McCain campaign effectively changed the conversation -- albeit it for only 12 hours or so. (Obama's press conference this morning re-established his trip as the top political story of the day.) And, in conversations with several neutral Republican operatives there was widespread dismay about the possible strategy of McCain naming his vice president this week in order to take some of the air out of the Obama balloon. Doing so would, in the minds of many party strategists, reinforce the operating dynamic of the race in which Obama acts and McCain reacts. The goal for the Arizona senator has to be setting the agenda, the sources agreed, rather than counter-punching in a fight that McCain may not be able to win. "The vice presidential choice and the nominating speech are the only two major events under their control and they must be done correctly, not in a reactive fashion," said John Weaver, a former senior aide to McCain's campaign. "If [Novak's report] is for real and they are about to name a vice president, it's campaign malpractice." By Chris Cillizza | July 22, 2008; 4:49 PM ET
I don't know. I should think that if McCain were to pick a mom-beating, sister-beating Brit as his running mate, it would be newsworthy.
I have never beaten my mom or sister and I am certainly not a Brit. Regardless, I would never run with McCain. I have standards. Like Bob Dylan said, "I'm liberal but to a degree; I want everybody to be free. But if you think I'd let Barry Goldwater move in next door and marry my daughter, you must think I'm crazy! I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba!"
Oh, okay... thanks for clearing that up. weslinder: It's an easy mistake to make but Christian Bale is an actor. He was just "playing" Batman. I understand your confusion though; he was very convincing.
Do you have any idea how many children I've pulled out of burning buildings or rescued from nutjobs on leave from Arkham, rimrocker? I'm only one man. I don't have time to galavant around the country campaigning on a feed-the-rich-eat-the-poor/reinstate the draft so everybody's kids get a chance to fight everybody else's kids platform! Get Superman to do it.
Sigh. While I have your attention, since you're the one that brought Jindal's controversial education to light, is it true or not true that "Brown" University only admits people with brown skin? I think George will be very interested in the answer to this question.
