Louisiana has been so crooked for so long, it ought to take no time at all to turn Jindal from a good-natured do-gooder into a greasy politician. I hope he does do better - Lord knows that state needs the help.

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The whole Jena 6 event (including the thread that I started) turned ugly. After a few pages, I wished for the impossible - for everybody to get along (a la Rodney).
Which is exactly why I wish the new governor well - I hope he can keep everybody reminded that we live in the 21'st Century, and that we ought to act accordingly - no matter where we live.

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Think again, my fellow jew. Jindal marks the 60th Caucasian governor elected in Louisiana.

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Just a little clarification, North Indians up to east are Caucasians, south Indians aren't. India is truly multi racial in that sense, all races from Mongolian to Australoid are present but North is predominantly Caucasian in every sense, feature wise and in most cases as you go northward, color wise.

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It seems he may not have been elected because he was so good, but because the incumbent Governor he ran against was so bad.

That kind of thing happens a lot, unfortunately. In democracies all around the world. Seems the system itself all too often tempts and corrupts everyone who gets into it, and not just in Louisiana.

Let's hope it doesn't, this time. I wish him and all the people in Louisiana the best, it's sure been a rough ride for them the last couple of years.

It's a really unique state, unlike any other, and I sure would like to get down there one day. Not just for the sights and the people but the food and the music also.

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1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

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Point is he is not a good guy in any sense, on the contrary, he is the very definition of slick. He does have some talent as indicated by his work on the health issue in Louisiana but when it comes to character, there are lots of question marks on him.

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Wow. You know this because...?

Here's the thing about him that I find disturbing -- he wants "intelligent design" taught as an alternative theory to natural selection in public schools.

The rest of his stuff is typical conservative Republican platform -- no surprise.

B

Does it matter?

His past actions speak for itsef and I am sure his present will reveal many more.

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What past actions are you hinting about? Are they not mainstream conservative Republican actions?

B

http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=MLA55695

Representative Bobby Jindal HAS REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY RESPONSES TO CITIZENS ON ISSUES THROUGH THE 2007 NATIONAL POLITICAL AWARENESS TEST.

http://www.littleindia.com/december2004/JindalGoestoWashington.htm

“Yes, yes. "My parents were very supportive. They felt like it was important that I was embracing God.”

http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1107931119

“My parents have never truly accepted my conversion and still see my faith as a negative that overshadows my accomplishments. They were hurt and felt I was rejecting them by accepting Christianity.” and then “I long for the day when my parents understand, respect and possibly accept my faith. For now I am satisfied that they accept me.”

Slick..........

Questionable Campaign Contributions:

Bobby Jindal has collected campaign contributions from many questionable sources. During his first run for Congress he accepted funds from Halliburton’s PAC (Halliburton is a company that overcharged and double charged the U.S. for services). He has also accepted money from Tom Delay’s ARMPAC and people connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal. He has violated the spirit of campaign finance laws by accepting contributions from people and their varied corporations, a legal activity that basically allows the wealthy to circumvent campaign finance limitations. He accepts money from people seeking to put a landfill in our state. He criticizes other candidates for their involvement in video poker but accepts money from people involved in the video poker industry (including John Georges himself during his last campaign for Congress). How is he not a hypocrite?

Jindal has voted against the troops

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Politics/Louisiana_And_New_Orleans_Elections__Family_Fued__4887.asp

Jindal supports big oil, votes against ban on price gouging!

Voted against H.R. 1252 which would have prevented price gouging by big oil companies.

Political Cowardice

Those are the terms used by The Advocate in their recent article about Bobby Jindal and his failure to attend debates.

Other key quotes from the editorial include…

“Gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal is embarrassing himself and doing voters a disservice by repeatedly ducking candidate forums.”

“A man who would be governor should be willing to test himself and his ideas in the arena of public debate and discussion.”

Bobby Jindal skipped a critical vote that would have established an independent probe to investigate the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina

Bobby Jindal opposed Emergency Appropriations for Louisiana hurricane recovery

Bobby Jindal believes in teaching creationism and/or “intelligent design” in the classroom.

Bobby Jindal has attempted to take credit for Mary Landrieu’s bill that opened up 8 million square miles for exploration, giving Louisiana 37.5% of the tax revenue, despite the fact that Jindal had actually worked to defeat this bill.

Bobby Jindal voted against appropriating $14 billion for the research and development of alternative energy

Bobby Jindal voted in favor of cutting $14 billion in student aid

Bobby Jindal’s multi-pointed “health care plan” fails to address the elderly or the physically disabled. Despite the fact that the elderly and the disabled account for the bulk of Louisiana Medicaid spending, Jindal supports Medicaid privatization (without any consideration for those most in need).

Bobby Jindal is slick with capital S.......good for Louisiana......NOT.

Now let me ask you, why are you so concerned about Bobby Jindal?

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I don't really care about republican or democrat, to me they are either sides of coin to start with. If you see, he has voted against other republicans on certain issues. Its about his ethics, nothing else and whether he is good for Louisiana, so far as per his acts, doesn't seem to be a good idea.

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Assuming that you list is perfectly accurate and completely unbiased in it's presentation of the facts and perfectly devoid of biased presentation, is any of that NOT mainstream conservative Republican?

The point being that anybody who votes for a conservative Republican should have a fair idea who they are voting for. Just as with a mainstream Democrat.

"Now let me ask you, why are you so concerned about Bobby Jindal?"

Two reasons -- #1 I'm in Louisiana and he's just been elected gov. That alone makes him interesting to me. #2 is that some dickheaded jerks believe that people in Louisiana are all a bunch of bigots, in contrast to whatever virtual paradise they live in. Jindal gaining 58% of the vote puts the lie to those dickheads. 32% of the population claims to be of that race. Lets assume the worst-case, that every spanking one of them voted against Jindal. That leaves 10% of the non-black vote must have gone to one or more of Jindal's opponents. That explains the 42% NOT voting for Jindal.

Now in the remaining 58% who voted for Jindal, who might they be? Perhaps the pool of racists and bigots? No wait, couldn't be them because the last time he ran for gov, the pundits said all the racists and bigots voted for Blanco. So the racists and bigots, being consistent racists and bigots (as they all must be) must make-up some of that 42% of people who voted for the other (all Democrat) candidates.

So now we know that bigots comprise about 10% of the population.

OR

Let's say that 50% of the black voters voted for Jindal. That's 16% of the population. So the bigots make-up a maximum of 26% of the population. Is that reasonable -- that bigots voted only for Democrats?

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PS I'll just bet that somebody could pull-up an equally factual and unbiased assessment of the record of a Democrat.

PPS I like this link: http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=MLA55695 That one will be useful.

Don't think racists and bigots ever vote in Louisiana, if that were to be the case, David Duke would have won handsomely.

You are most welcome to the link.

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Duke came pretty close.

There were bumper stickers in that race, between Edwards (now in fed prison) and Duke that said things like, "Vote for the crook, it's important" and "Vote for the lizard, not the wizard". So how to reconcile the closeness of the Edwards vs Duke vote (which many people assume is a pro-white-supremacist vote) and the current Jindal vote? Well, not a small number of people hated Edwards more than they feared Duke, IMO.

I didn't live in LA at the time so I viewed LA politics as a recreational sport.