Monday, November 20, 2006

Next, they'll accuse him of charming water moccasins

Here is a press release from the Louisiana Democratic Party. Read it, and then I'll explain a few things:

PRESS RELEASE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.......................................
CONTACT: Julie Vezinot
Nov. 16, 2006.......................................225-336-4155

THOU SHALT GO FORTH AND SEEK CONTRIBUTIONS

Jindal Claims Divine Intervention Has Directed Him to Raise Money
But Not Commit to Governor’s Race

BATON ROUGE – Piyush (Bobby) Jindal has finally admitted to a partial divine revelation that he wants to be governor. This revelation has told him to seek out his most valued supporters, ask of them large amounts of money while he continues to pray for an answer to his most burning question – Should I be Governor?

Someone would have to been living under a rock not to notice that Jindal has been criss-crossing the state over the last several months during his “supposed” re-election campaign. Funny, I didn’t think the voters in DeRidder or Monroe could vote in the 1st District? Never the less, Jindal kept at it as he so smugly rested on the assurances his re-election was in the bag.

And now, to his loyal voters who put him back in Washington, he’s telling them – Wait a Minute – I changed my mind – I want to be governor. For someone who is supposedly intelligent and claims not to play politics, Jindal’s actions are insulting and should be called to question.

“How dare he ridicule Gov. Blanco for raising funds for her re-election campaign,” said Louisiana Democratic Party Chairman Chris Whittington. “Gov. Blanco has never hid her intentions to run again and had enough respect for the people of this state to tell them so.”

Gov. Blanco took the reigns of this great state with a mission – improve the economy, health care and education standards for Louisiana. Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita threw a wrench into her timeline, but our governor is not one to give up and she has stated she will work hard to see those goals achieved.

Instead of Piyush praying for a decision to run for governor which everyone knows he’s made; he ought to pray for humility and maybe even a conscience.

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First, we're talking about the Deep South. There are people in the South who go by nicknames so entrenched that friends of 50 years would never dream of calling them by their given names.

In more than a few cases, friends of 50 years MAY NOT KNOW their given names. That is why in the newspaper obituaries, the deceased's nickname is a must item.

Honest to God, when my wife (an Omaha native . . . and I ain't talking Omaha, Ark.) and I were first married and living in the Gret Stet, she was completely taken aback by the obit for "Crap Ear." As in John "Crap Ear" Doe. But if you want all "Crap Ear's" cronies to show up at the funeral home, you gotta do it.

So now we come to U.S. Rep. Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, R-Kenner. Only in public, he doesn't go by "Piyush."

His congressional website says "Bobby." Every Louisiana newspaper and TV newscast says "Bobby." Hell, for all I know, everybody in Louisiana says "Bobby."

And without the quotation marks. That is, except for the Louisiana Democratic Party.

What's next, Democratic Party TV ads with clips of Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu Nahasapeemapetilon from The Simpsons? Claims that the furriner -- "Kinda looks like a nigra, don'tcha think Bubba?" -- is out to take the governor's job from a red-blooded American, Kathleen Blanco?

Forget that Bobby Jindal was born and raised in Baton Rouge. Forget that he's Catholic, too. AND, FOR GOD'S SAKE, FORGET THAT HE'S WELL-EDUCATED, COMPETENT AND ACCOMPLISHED!

Just remember that he's one a them dark-skinned furriner Indians. And vote for whatever incompetent or crooked -- or both -- candidate the Louisiana Democrats put up for governor. Like incompetent, er, incumbent Blanco.

This kind of behavior was inexcusable 50 years ago, and it's execrable today. But dat's Louisiana for 'ya!

Then again, it does not surprise me that Louisiana Democrat pols would be A) so brazen, B) so idiotic or C) both as to try race-baiting Bobby Jindal a mere three weeks after Democrats nationwide screamed bloody murder about the GOP's race-baiting of Harold Ford in the Tennessee U.S. Senate election.

And you have to -- in a warped sort of way -- admire the Louisiana Democrats' ability to smear a man on account of both his race AND his religion, mocking him for praying about big decisions. Not an easy feat, and the mark of a determined cabal of slimebags.

Obviously, Louisiana -- a.k.a. "The Poor Man of America" -- has a high tolerance for dungheaps of every sort.

After all, here's a picture taken at Bobby Jindal's alma mater, Baton Rouge Magnet High School.

BRMHS is one of the state's very best schools, yet you have to wonder whether it would be in a lot better physical condition if more of its students were Regular White Americans (TM), instead of blacks, Asians and Indians like Piyush Jindal.

And you thought I couldn't work an ongoing Louisiana outrage into a post about the latest Louisiana outrage.

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