Posted on 10/24/2009 4:42:44 AM PDT by Proud23yroldConservative
Edited on 10/24/2009 6:23:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward. Bobby Jindal is one such man – the present governor of Louisiana is the youngest in the country and won with 88% votes. Bobby Jindal was touted to be John McCain’s running mate, before the position was taken by Sarah Palin (was it his dark skin? or did he turn down Mccain’s propsal?). Anyway, that has changed.
The republicans are now desperate to prove to the people of America that they hated Obama because of his radical ideas, not because they’re racist. What better way to do that than by nominating a successful, qualified and educated dark-skinned Indian governor for 2012?
Advantage Jindal: With all the heat around muslims and the cloud of “Who’s the real Barack Hussein Obama” all through this election campaign, Jindal, originally a Hindu who converted into Catholicism in school, will avoid that.
Who is Bobby Jindal? You can read the entire biography at wikipedia, I’ll jump to the interesting bits.
Piyush “Bobby” Jindal (pronounced “Jend All” in Louisiana) was born in the US to Indian parents, completed schooling at 17, was accepted by Harvard Medical School, but decided to go into politics and received a master’s degree in politics as a Rhodes scholar from New College, Oxford. Worked at Mckinsey and Company, advised fortune 500 companies. Got married in 1996 to present wife Supriya Jolly and has three children – Shaan Robert, Slade Ryan and Selia Elizabeth.
Will Bobby Jindal emerge with a ticket for 2012, or will he still be some governor vouching for a place in the senate?
Unless he firmly comes out against outsourcing NO WAY.
Bobby is a good possibility...
Bobby won’t be ready until 1216 at the earliest, he hasn’t been tested enough. He needs more experience and tempering.
He’s a weakling, and his high praise of Obama made me want to vomit.
No
No
Total rubbish!
What a stupid reason to chose a candidate for office.
“Hey, you have a dark skin, and since we don't want to be seen as racist, here is the presidential nomination for you”.
I like Jindal, but to suggest that Republicans nominate him as their candidate in 2012 because he is dark skinned, is an insult not just to Republicans, it's an insult to Bobby Jindal himself. Yes, he is very competent guy, but he is going to have to fight for the nomination just like anyone else. He is not getting any passes just because he has a dark hue. That's how we ended up with 0bozo in the first place.
Ugh. Jindal is a loser.
well, i did think his body language when he entered the room awkward. He entered the room, walked down the aisle then immediately started talking. He should take some time, take out a piece of paper, adjust his suit or something before launching straight into the speech
“With America’s first ever black president, there’s hope for ethnic minorities in the US to step forward.”
Nah, I think that America will vote a woman into the White House in 2012.
The pea-brained voters will feel like this: Okay, we felt good about voting for the black guy, but he turned out to be pretty much of a turd. But, color barrier’s out of the way. So let’s take care of the gender issue and feel good about electing a gal - break that old glass ceiling, don’t ya know.
Meantime, the country suffers for a lack of executive skill and leadership. Geesh.
Jindal lost me when he recently said we need to work WITH obozo on his healthcare. Appears lil’ bobby has thrown in with the Newt RINOs.
I have nothing against Gov. Jindal, but nominating someone just because of their ethnicity is bad policy.
Besides the Republican Party already nominated an American Indian for vice president (twice), how racially groundbreaking would it be to nominate an Indian American?
NO. Jindal should be proposing his own health care plan.
I agree.
Conservatives/Republicans fell into the trap of believing that we have to run a minority to prove we’re tolerant.
What we need is a strong conservative voice that can articulate our case convincingly.
When I watch Jindal speak, he comes across as weak as Bobby Brady, whose name he borrowed. And he also comes off as a bit weird. I wanted to believe he was the “One” from our side as so many conservative pundits tried to make of him, but it just isn’t working for me.
I was going back and forth on Palin, wondering if she could undo the damage the MSM did to her.
She has been kicking the ass of our opponents and doing so in a very subtle way.
Bachmann is also doing a good job, though I need to know more about her positions on the issues.
I don’t care that they are women/from a PC group. What I care about is that they are flipping the bird to the RINO establishment and standing up for conservatives.
Not a speaker of passion.
And Palin will be ready for 2012?
Those who claim that Obama is not a natural born citizen because his father was not a U.S. citizen will have to make the same claims about Jindal.
The author of this article needs to free himself/herself from the trap of identity politics.
It is a childish, ad hominem game, at this point. We’ve all proven we’ll support anyone who represents our ideology well.
We need to prove NOTHING.
And if the author of this article wrote this piece because he/she is an Indian and Jindal is Indian, then HE/SHE is the one that needs to prove something, because just about every Indian I know VOTED FOR OBAMA.
Perhaps minorities need to prove they aren’t simply looking to vote against whites.
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