Bobby Jindal Rising as Romney’s VP Choice

Newsmax ^ | 06/07/2012 | By Ronald Kessler

[rogue yam]

Can’t see it, Jindal brings nothing too the table.

Bobby Jindal is brilliant, honest, hard-working, educated, experienced, and deeply conservative.

That's not nothing.

[rogue yam]

Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina, and the more recent tornadoes, is overrated.

Are you being sarcastic?

I think Gov. Jindal's leadership during Katrina and the numerous subsequent storms, as well as during the oil spill, have been exemplary.

[rogue yam]

Besides, during the Gulf oil disaster, he just stood there on the tarmac and took a dressing down from Zippy instead of telling Zippy to go F himself, I’m building the dikes anyway.

This is nonsense.

[Vendome]

If they want Jindal then I say bring it.

And like you, let the NBC debates begin....

[Puppage]

Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina, and the more recent tornadoes, is overrated.

Are you being sarcastic?

Take another look.....I didn't say that. The poster to whom I provided your Jindal opinion did. We're of the same mind on this one.

[Johnny B.]

Not necessarily; it's been pretty well established Obama has never made all the information on his BC public

OK, but none of the things you mentioned have any relevance to his eligibility.

And, it's not the Birth Certificate itself that's important. Many (most?) people born in this country prior to the 20th Century didn't even have birth certificates.

[texteacher]

“Yeah, that whole leadership role he perfected during Katrina...”

Jindal was not the La. governor during Katrina. It was Kathleen Blanco and was a “fail” in leadership.

[Puppage]

See post 28

[In Maryland]

If it were to be proved that Eldridge Cleaver was Obama's father (by birth certificate, DNA or whatever) there would be no doubt he was a natural born citizen - he would be the child of two U.S. citizens and born in the US. (That is unlikely to happen; but in trying to think of why Obama went to such expense to hide his birth certificate, I was trying to think of what could have been so embarrassing to be worth all the trouble, and yet leave the jus sanguinis question open?)

There are, of course, other possibilities. He could be listed on his birth certificate as "White", which would have probably sunk his chances of election.

My point is not to rehash the NBC thing again - my point if that if the republicans nominate someone who is not the child of citizens, Obama may prove he is the child of 2 citizens and the press and democratic position that NBC means born in the country would INSTANTLY change to one requiring being the child of citizens.

P.S. The last U.S. President born before the 20th century was Eisenhower.

[Gumdrop]

That airhead, Kathleen Blanco, was the Governor of LA during the Katrina hurricane. She was joined in incompetence with that super mayor of NO/LA, Ray Nagin. With 2 do-nothing Democrats in command, the people of New Orleans were sitting ducks.

Blanco sat on her hands fretting while the school buses were stranded in a parking lot in NO. I’m sure you all remember the case of the young teenage boy who somehow got the keys or otherwise jerry-rigged the motor and then drove a bus full of people out of NO toward the great state of Texas.

[Johnny B.]

If it were to be proved that Eldridge Cleaver was Obama's father (by birth certificate, DNA or whatever) there would be no doubt he was a natural born citizen

OK, I see your point.

I agree that there is probably something on his birth certificate that would be embarrassing to him (quite possibly his real father), since otherwise why fight so hard to avoid revealing it.

P.S. The last U.S. President born before the 20th century was Eisenhower.

It would be interesting to know which Presidents (if any) did not have actual birth certificates.

[muffaletaman]

I’m afraid a Veep candidate needs to be a good presenter and debater.

That would explain Joe Biden's selection and success, right? :-)

[A'elian' nation]

How many people here actually watched that “Speech” by Jindal?
Or have you just heard how terrible it was from the media?

I watched it and was surprised at how the media cut Jindal down just as they do any minority candidate in the republican ranks. It was Jindal’s first introduction to a national audience, and he may have come off as a bit too energetic. So does Sarah Palin. Couldn’t fault the substance though, and I liked his fervor.

Bobby Jindal is brilliant and hard-working as you say. He is also the best extemporaneous speaker I’ve heard in a long time. He is incredibly informed and would put teleprompters out of business.

I don’t think Romney will select him. Where is the Asian vote decisive? Louisiana is a given for him. He might get a cabinet post,but his talents are wasted there. With his gung-ho executive experience he is best suited in some private enterprise initiative - like school reform.

Louisiana is the first state to be initiating a state wide school voucher system next Fall. Every time a student receives a voucher his local public school will lose a chunk of state funding. Public schools have to feel the pain to ever change their ways.

[NorthernCrunchyCon]

Obama’s birth certificate is already a moot issue with Romney as GOPe nominee. Remember that Mitt’s old man George was the first Mexican-born citizen to attempt a run for U.S. president.