I recently met a desi Louisianan who insisted that Bobby Jindal’s accent is of recent vintage. ‘We knew him growing up,’ she said, ‘and like me, he had no Southern drawl. It appeared all of a sudden when he ran for governor.’ Another friend who went to college with Jindal confirms he had a neutral […]
A story in Details, of all places, goes further than any other MSM piece I’ve seen in probing Jindal’s desiness. It paints him to be a hard-driving morph whose religious conversion was inspired by a girl he had the hots for:
“I considered myself anti-Christian,” he wrote in another piece; elsewhere, he confided that he thought […]
A Boston Globe warhorse drew an interesting analogy today between a possible McCain-Jindal ticket and Eisenhower-Nixon. Jindal is 36, Richard Nixon was 39:
For a running mate Ike chose the young senator from California, Richard Nixon, who, at 39, provided a generational counterweight and also a salve to conservatives. George H.W. Bush was 64 when he […]
I rarely read Bill Kristol, a reliable reciter of GOP talking points. He’s what in radio terms one would dismiss as a repeater, someone who retransmits a signal handed down from party mandarins.
But his position as a propaganda tool is precisely what makes his latest trial balloon intriguing:
… if we run a traditional campaign; our […]
Conservative James Lucier wrote an op/ed reprinted in the WSJ about how Bobby Jindal would be a good running mate for John McCain. Some of his points make sense: Jindal would balance the ticket with unquestioned conservative bona fides, youth and health care experience, and he’s been able to ram through some key conservative priorities […]
Update: Here’s the CNN interview.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer ran an interview with Bobby Jindal today keying off conservative douchebag Rush Limbaugh’s claim that Jindal should be McCain’s preferred veep, and is potentially yet another Ronald Reagan. I had somehow escaped actually hearing Jindal speak until today. Despite being diametrically opposed to his social conservatism, hard line […]
Harlem for Obama
Barack Obama won the Democratic caucus in lily-white Iowa in part because he comes across as a postracial candidate. An Obama presidency might let average people absolve residual guilt for America’s history of slavery:
All the Obama volunteers told me how hard it was, even in Harlem, to convince folks that an Obama presidency […]
See if you can spot the subtle differences between these two Bobby Jindal photos. Concession speech, 2003:
Victory speech, 2007: