Posted on 06/17/2011 5:05:43 PM PDT by Nachum
NEW ORLEANS Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal diverged from the red meat attacks on President Obama that have characterized the Republican Leadership Conference to caution conservative activists that they ought not demonize the president in the fashion some liberals did President Bush.
Jindal recalled what he said were the "shrill, absurd and negative rhetoric" employed by the left during the eight years Bush was in office.
"We must not mimic their shallow approach," he said to modest applause in a Friday afternoon speech here.
Jindal, who just turned 40, is up for re-election this fall and is widely assumed by the state's political class to have national ambitions.
So even while tut-tutting the more sharp-edged attacks on Obama, he mixed in reassurance that he wasn't sympathizing with the president's policies.
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LOL
To both your posts.
I’m with you on that. There isn’t profanity adequate to describe what I think of the spawn of Satan.
Bobby Jindal’s OK. He has more brains in his pinky than Bambi
has in his whole empty head.
Bobby Jindal’s OK. He has more brains in his pinky than Bambi
has in his whole empty head.
Yeah, I just see this differently. Most people are going to keep personally liking Hussein because they WANT to like him. They count him as the first black President, he's been turned into a media icon, he's slick and seems friendly and likable and disturbing numbers of people are emotionally invested in him.
I think we get a lot more mileage out of being the happy, optimistic warriors. I just don't think we can make people personally hate Obama. I do think we can make people think Obama is a nice guy who just isn't up to the job. Hussein has failed miserably as President, particularly where the economy is concerned, and I think focusing on that and how our candidate will turn things around is how we win.
Yup. Too late for me too because I’VE HATED OBAMA AND THE HATE IS STILL GROWING..
Right you are. Playing nice gets you Obama, it gets you Trumka, it gets your ass handed to you in a fight. We are in a battle for the very soul of this nation and our enemy is truly loathsome. But they understand far better than the Republicans do what's at stake and they play the game accordingly. I make no bones about it, I hate Obama and every communist SOB on the face of this planet. I do not wish them well. Quite the contrary.
I completely agree. Unfortunately, the hate is already there, it was there before him and it will continue.
BUT, as hateful as we may sound, we are miles above the democrats... we LOVE our country, or constitution and God.
I respect your opinion on that, but we do disagree around the edges. As for “the happy warrior” himself? He slammed liberals hard. He did not back off. He could pull it off while showing himself optimistic about the American people and America’s place in the world.
Bottom line, you have to be true to yourself. Cain and Palin and Bachmann will be feisty for example if they are themselves. T Paw not so much.
What makes Jindal’s argument so upsetting is that he has shown himself almost - but not quite - up to the big moment. It’s in that context, and the context of McCain, that I dislike his comments.
If she's out of shouting distance.
I hate being lectured to by politicians.
Ubama is a sick communist p.o.s. who is determined to destroy traditional America and turn it into a fully unionized, European-style socialist welfare state, and I loathe him. How's that, Bobby? Is "loathe" okay?
Evil in all it’s myriad forms SHOULD be hated, and there is no distinction between evil and those who willingly choose to advance the cause of evil.
“Hate and violence is a tool for leftists. “
Allow me to arrange a few of your words.
Leftists are a tool for the devil who deals in hate and violence.
Semper Fi, Friend.
I like Bobby, but this smacks of the campaign tanking quote of John McLame when he said we shouldn’t be “skeered” of an Obama presidency. Puke! Use the hate for good purpose - get this ass-clown out of the White Crib.
Proverbs could only be referring to “my” enemies and “your” enemies and “do not rejoice”, etc.......In other words personal enemies.
Nowhere does proverbs refer to enemies of the Lord and his Kingship here on earth. I just happen to think it is absolutely okay to be happy with enemies of God who fall in trouble.
Just my take.
From what I have read, you are right about his mother too.
I despise Obama and I think he’s trying to destroy us.
Jindal falls into the GWB “gentlemanly” category. I think it’s perfectly fine for a politician not to say foul things about his opponent, even if the opponent deserves them. But sometimes people like Jindal and Bush go so far in trying to be gentlemanly that they end up appearing weak, naive and unprincipled.
And they are then accordingly savaged by said opponent. But they still never learn.
Oh, I am all for that. I just think it can be done without the kind of venom that turns off voters. Human nature is what it is, people make judgments about whether they like someone personally, become emotionally wedded to that decision, and tend to react badly if you go after that person in a hateful manner. Folks tend to be loathe to admit to themselves or anyone else that they were wrong in their personal evaluation of another person. I think you can persuade some of them Hussein's ideas are wrong because the independent voters we are targeting tend not to be knowledgeable about policy anyway, you can persuade even more that he just isn't quite up to the job as the economy is clearly not better, but I don't think you can convince most people that Obama is a bad person - and attempts to do so are likely to result in sympathy for him.
Bottom line, you have to be true to yourself. Cain and Palin and Bachmann will be feisty for example if they are themselves. T Paw not so much.
I certainly agree with this. Palin is a particularly wonderful example of it. If she runs I seriously doubt she will go after Obama personally. She will attack his ideas, she will attack the ideology he adheres to, but she is not going to try to make voters hate him. Bachmann I think will have the same approach, but while I like Bachmann I am not quite as confident in her as I am Palin.
What makes Jindals argument so upsetting is that he has shown himself almost - but not quite - up to the big moment. Its in that context, and the context of McCain, that I dislike his comments.
Okay, gotcha. I think I see where your coming from. We may agree here more than we disagree.
> Okay, gotcha. I think I see where your coming from. We may agree here more than we disagree.<
We do. We disagree only around the edges. Mainly you are taking Jindal at his literal word — and I am reading “code” in light of his history and the history of others who have spoken in this same “code.” As another poster said earlier, it’s eerily reminiscent of McCain’s “we have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency” speech.
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