Posted on 07/30/2010 2:16:08 AM PDT by Scanian
"We don't have time for meetings. We don't have time for red tape and bureaucracy. We're literally in a war to save our coast. Every hour matters. Every day matters."—Gov. Bobby Jindal (R.-La.)
Since Bobby Jindal came on the scene as a U.S. congressman from Louisiana, he’s shaken the status quo. He is an unabashed conservative within the Republican Party—a unique blend of the political and business world.
He also gave the party some color. Republicans are sensitive about their perceived “color problem,” and Bobby Jindal added a religious fervor and true conservative credentials along with his Indian heritage and he skyrocketed to the top of every conservative list.
When he moved to the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion in 2008, he completed the perfect combination of a social and fiscal conservative with both Washington and executive experience. People were talking about a presidential run in 2012. While it was only “15 minutes” after President Obama had been elected and Jindal became a governor, battered Republicans were already thinking about 2012.
Jindal was tapped to give the Republican response to President Obama’s first address to Congress and the expectations were high for the new governor of Louisiana. The message was on target but the delivery left much to be desired. He seemed nervous and stilted and many people said, “He’s done.”
However, Jindal’s term as governor has been successful. With the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as a region, Louisiana has lower than average unemployment. There are jobs in Louisiana and increased energy costs had helped the important oil industry.
The BP oil spill thrust Bobby Jindal back into the spotlight. Since then, Gov. Jindal is everywhere as a hands-on man of the people and a no-nonsense governor.
There are two major areas that are resonating with his constituents and the American people.
First, Jindal presented an early plan to dredge around the barrier islands and create sand berms to keep the oil from getting to shore. This plan was the right way to go but, as if they were the keystone cops, the Obama White House, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency stood in the way of keeping oil away from Louisiana.
It took 31 days to get an answer to this proposal. Citing environmental concerns, the government finally said Jindal can proceed in a limited manner. Precious time was lost, time that can never be recovered. The federal government was inept on every level and when presented with common-sense solutions from Jindal, they didn’t know what to do. Second, when the Obama Administration banned all offshore drilling, Jindal went to bat for the workers of his state and fought the government in court and won. When the Obama Administration said they way would find another way to ban drilling and kill jobs in the Gulf region, Jindal gathered the people.
In what was called a “Rally for Economic Survival” to protest the moratorium, 11,000 people showed up outside the Cajundome in Lafayette, La.
Jindal wants to “send a clear message to Washington, D. C.” The governor said, “Our people don’t want a BP check, our people don’t want an unemployment check, our people want this arbitrary moratorium to end so they can go back to work.”
Eleven thousand people gathered to talk about lost drilling jobs as well as lost small businesses up and down the Gulf Coast. Distributors and suppliers who provide services to offshore drillers are standing empty and are laying off workers.
There weren’t any passes to get into this event. These people were not screened with a special ticket to hear their governor speak. These were the people of Louisiana but they could have been the people of any state. These were the real people that were destroyed by an arbitrary decision by an arbitrary administration.
Bobby Jindal is a man of the people but more than that he understands the free market. He may be a long shot for President in 2012, but if he keeps leading like this, people will forget the Republican response in 2009.
What’s great about Jindal is that he isn’t thinking about the next political job, he’s doing the one he’s in now to the best of his ability. That is what makes a leader; a commodity that is in short supply. Bobby Jindal is a leader and his future is ahead of him not mired in the past.
Governor Jindahl has the same problem Mr. Obama has: His parents were not American citizens at the time of his birth, therefore his is not a Natural Born Citizen, as required by the Constitution for the presidency.
Although I had high hopes for Governor Jindal he really had a chance for major change in Louisiana but has decided on baby steps instead. He hasn’t been bad but he hasn’t done enough to turn the state around. His economic stimulus has amounted to handing out checks to selected businesses to come to Louisiana.
The only thing that really matters in our Twilight Zone world of today.
Well, it worked for Obama.
Just what I was thinking. Seems like they can’t talk about anyone as a person. They always have to bring up color. And I am so sick and tired of us being called racists.
I’ve said this before and I will say this again. Jindal is not a fiscal conservative and he will be a disappointment if he becomes POTUS.
I also question whether Bobby is an unabashed conservative. He is certainly no Chris Christie. I cannot escape the sense that Bobby is an extremely ambitious and aspiring career politician who will do whatever he thinks he needs to do to advance himself.
I really want to like Bobby and, at times, he is very good, but I think I speak for many in Louisiana when I say that I still have some concerns about him and I definitely do not feel he is ready for the national stage until he has done much more to prove himself here.
There are rumours here that he will resign before serving out his term because he feels he cannot come out looking good if he completes his term. If he does resign, I think it would be a big red flag that my suspicions about him are true.
The Republican’s “Color Problem” is that people of color have been brain washed by the Leftist Democrats.
Dude! Gov. Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1971. He is as eligible to be President as anyone.
Isn’t Romney also in this category?
I’m not questioning his birthplace, but his parents must be American citizens at the time of his birth for him to be a Natural Born Citizen. We’ve been over and over this with the Obama situation. It’s not his possible Kenyan birth that disqualifies him, as much as it’s his purported father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, who was never an American.
If his father is actually a Mexican citizen as I’ve read somewhere.
I was thinking Canada
It’s risky, but Jindal or some support group for him should start a court case about his own eligibility. It would get a USSC decision about the definition of NBC and if Jindal lost the case, it would knock Obama out of the box. Maybe worth the risk.
Nope.
A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...
What "problem" would that be? As far as I can tell, Obama is currently the President of the United States.
His parents were not American citizens at the time of his birth, therefore his is not a Natural Born Citizen, as required by the Constitution for the presidency.
This birther nonsense has gone nowhere and will continue to go nowhere. Nobody is buying it. Nobody. Birthers have had zero success selling this definition of Natural Born Citizen to anyone outside of the Obama eligibility circus. None. Nada. Zip. Only a trail of dismissed lawsuits to show for their failed efforts.
Bobby Jindal is eligible for the U.S. Presidency.
Ciktizen and Natural Born Citizen are not the same thing.
There are rumours here that he will resign before serving out his term because he feels he cannot come out looking good if he completes his term. If he does resign, I think it would be a big red flag that my suspicions about him are true.
Jindals history indicates he doesn’t stay in one position very long. They come in change and shake things up then move to the next opportunity. The problem I have with that approach is one never gets to see how that person will handle the results of all his changes a few years down the road.
True. However, the relevant jurisprudence, helpfully quoted and linked for you above, shows that Bobby Jindal is a natural born citizen.
The 14th Amendment says only "born" or "naturalized." There is no mystical grey area. If one is a citizen at birth, one is Natural Born.
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