You made some good points. But let me tell you, I was not that impressed with his story about Obama coming off of AF-1 and instead of discussing with Jindal about the spill, Obama dressed him down about Food Stamps.
Jindal stood there with a deer in the headlights look.
He should have told Obama right there on the tarmac—”Hey, pal, we have millions of gallons of oil spilling while you’re here for a photo op. I don’t a sh%t about Food Stamps right now. Call that idiot Salazar right now and tell him I want permission for those berms right now.I am done asking. If you can’t do that, get back up those stairs and take off, and those berms will be there by Friday.”
See, that’s a leader. None of this “respect for the office” crap for this Marxist.
Jindal was being punished because he was a Republican. Surely he must have known that with Obama. Obama and Salazar have almost ruined Louisiana’s economy.
Jindal wringing his hands and waiting and waiting for permission made him look weak.
Had he just acted decisively on behalf of his state he would have been a national hero. This could have been Obama’s Katrina and should have been.
All I am saying is when you have an emergency on your hands, you can;t wait for others to act. And I feel Jindal was too deferential to the Feds. His deference has been repaid—now all new drilling is verboten on the Gulf, and Louisiana will suffer the loss of many good jobs. Even now, Jindal should be pounding someone’s desk to get this ban overturned.
As much as folks like him, we both know he is not Constitutionally qualified to be President, just like Obama.
After two years of an illegal President we have to make sure 1) Obama is given the bum’s rush out of the White House and 2) We never allow this to happen again.
Mega-dittos on that.
“He should have told Obama right there on the tarmac—”Hey, pal, we have millions of gallons of oil spilling while you’re here for a photo op. I don’t a sh%t about Food Stamps right now.”
Agreed, he should’ve taken a page from James Carville’s playbook, i.e., “Man, we’re dyin’ down heya!”.
You make many good points also. I remember a fellow Freeper relating meeting BJ, that his handshake was rather weak and he was a very slight, softspoken guy (I’m paraphrasing, sorry). I like BJ, think he’s righteous and sincere, but for many reasons (besides the birth thing), isn’t the right one for what we need anyway. It’s gonna take a very exceptional person in all aspects to beat this SOB in Chief and his extremely powerful machine.