Posted on 11/29/2008 8:14:06 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
That he was involved in exorcism and wrote a paper on it and it was incredibly descriptive - is it wrong of me to state that it will most likely come up and be a bit of a problem on the national scene?? Did we not see how scared people were because of Sarah Palin being religious?? If they find out that he performed an exorcism or more in college you think that will entice people to vote for him? I don’t think so!
Yeah, as an older non office holding guy that used to be an unknown congressman, he may double his vote total.
He is my congressman, I vote for him and would appoint him president if I were God, but he is not a national politician.
I think that as a Catholic and an intellectual that he will be able to handle it.
“Are you familiar with Louisiana politics?”
No, outside of the fact that they are said to be rather corrupt. Did he run against Blanco on the second try or someone else?
“...negative attacks on Jindal based on his skin color.”
Wouldn’t that backfire due to the black vote?
“Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”
Posters could learn to google a simple fact like that themselves rather than posting something as a rumor.
Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There is absolutely no question regarding his citizenship. He is as American as crawfish pie.
He may be able to handle it but I can guarantee that as a conservative and how people are scared of “religion” these days and are almost bigoted in regards to it - it will in fact be an issue. There really aren’t a lot of people that are willing to understand that. Maybe that’s just my opinion but from what I saw in my generation this election I have my doubts - the #1 response I got to Palin was that people in my age group were AFRAID of her because she was SUPER RELIGIOUS. She did not perform an actual exorcism - and they thought that. It’s unfortunate that so many people are intolerant of religion today and hopefully that will change and may change in these next 4 yrs. but if not I think my doubts are valid.
Well, if he was on a ticket with Jindal or Palin, things could change.
That should be a lever that would not require any nose holding to pull...
This is the part that needs translating into English; I think I can figure the rest out.
Dude. Bobby lost to Meemaw prior to Katrina. He was very young, not well known, had never even run for office before, and was a bit of an odd duck for Louisiana. Once Louisianians got to know Bobby better he pretty much swept the State on his second try.
People fear Palin’s religion because she is the traditional American protestant, and a true believer.
Jindal is a fine example of a true believing Catholic (I guess that means Roman Catholic?), but Catholicism does not scare the media and all of the rest of the mildly religious and non religious as much as a bible believing, gun toting, protestant, besides being the second Catholic is very Kennedyesque.
Who the hell is Meemaw? I thought he ran against Blanco?
From Wikipedia...
Blanco was elected on November 15, 2003, defeating her Republican opponent Bobby Jindal, in the general election, by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent.
LOL! If you say so - I think you are marked either way if you have an R next to your name!
Absolutely, but she will never be elected.
Well, this is good to know. He’s got my vote. I think he’s a good pick.
One reason that I like these two (Palin and Jindal) is that I think that they are both deeply religious and that they can both both defend and promote Christianity in the face of the media attacks that will come their way during their future campaigns.
What's going on is that the constitutionally clueless MSM has wrongly glorified the constitutional powers of the Oval Office and Congress as much as it has made Obama bigger than life in the last several years. The fact is that the states have more government power than the feds. This is evidenced by the following constitutional statutes.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution (emphasis added) in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Given that the Founders intended for the federal Constitution to limit (cripple) the powers of the federal government, the 10th A. actually reserves to the states the lion's share difference of government powers. So where issues like health care, retirement benefits, public schools and abortion, as examples, are concerned, given that the federal Constitution is silent about these issues, it is the states who have the power to regulate these issues.10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (emphasis added), nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In fact, consider Thomas Jefferson's words about the Founder's division of federal and state government powers.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom (emphasis added)." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jSo Governors Palin, Jindal and the other governors actually "own" the constitutional powers that the Oval Office and Congress want to have to regulate these issues and have wrongly stolen from the state governments with the help of corrupt, pro-big federal government majority justices.
Yes, it would have been a mistake to send Sarah to DC, in my opinion. This is because Governors Palin, Jindal, and all the other governors, can begin YESTERDAY to use their greater constitutional powers to restore constitutional limits on federal government powers; no need to wait until 2012 if you know about the Founder's division of federal and state government powers as evidenced by the statutes above.
We have the big federal government mess that we do today because constitutionally clueless FDR politically nuked 10th A. protected state powers in the 1930s so that he could establish his constitutionally unauthorized New Deal Federal spending programs.
The truth of the matter is that Governors Palin and Jindal, having more powers to serve the people than President Palin or President Jindal would, or president-elect Obama will have, need to brush up on the Constitution and its history and then lead the other states to do the following. They need to lead the states to reclaim state powers from the state-power usurping federal gorilla (government) and put this gorilla back into its constitutional cage.
No wonder God kept Governor Palin in Alaska.
Never say never!! After Obambi, anything is possible.
Assuming you are referring to exorcism, yes he is a Catholic. Sorry that you think that this disqualifies him. Didn't seem to disqualify JFK.
I really hope you are right - I feel the same! These two would be a great team and I think really change the country and the people for the better - lead by example - That’s why I’m trying to get involved as much as possible w/ the young republicans so other youngin’s are enlightened and not so narrow minded when it comes to religion - all the attacks this year saddened me and made me a little weary :( Now it’s time to FIGHT :)
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