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Bobby Jindal - America's new Sarah Palin

In 2008, the nation was introduced to a new GOP "star" - Sarah Palin. Earlier this week, with the Republican response to The State of the Union Address, the nation was introduced to the next GOP "star" - Bobby Jindal.

During his speech, Obama spoke to his listeners as though he were speaking to adults. Jindal spoke to adults as though he were speaking to children of the 19th century. During Jindal's response to Obama, he also claimed that he worked in the trenches to combat Hurricane Katrina. He even made reference to a deceased sheriff with whom he supposedly worked. Jindal has now retracted this claim, because it is not true.

Regardless of Jindal's lie, it is evident that the GOP appears to believe that finding an "ordinary" person to lead is a priority for the future of its party. However, the fact is that the United States would have probably never been established had it been left to ordinary people like Palin and Jindal. It was visionaries like our current president that made this country into what it is.

Pop quiz... Which of the following people were average?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Henry Ford
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Ludwig van Beethoven
E. Albert Einstein
F. Benjamin Franklin
G. None of the above

Obviously the answer is "G". The most influential people in history have not been average, they have been extraordinary. Change any of the people listed above to "average" and our world would be a much different place and likely a much less desirable place to live.

By historical standards, the Democrats have an extraordinary person with Barack Obama. While the GOP is still convinced that it needs Mr. or Ms. Ordinary.

What are your thoughts?

Best regards,
Jay

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Posted by Jay Allen - MovieVoice on 02/28/2009 01:47 AM

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20 Comments on Bobby Jindal - America's new Sarah Palin

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I think there is something extraordinary about Barack Obama. I believe that he has a charisma about him that is just what the people of this country need. Even if he make some incorrect decisions, he will still have that "something" about him that will stand out in history. It seems similar to Kennedy who also seemed to have that special "something" though the two are very different.

There will be more Bobby Jindals and Sarah Palins on both sides though. After all, it IS politics and that seems to bring out some characters! :)

I think we are lucky to have Barack Obama in office at this time. It is downright scary to think that the Republicans would rally behind the pathetic representatives that they have supported in recent times.

As a total outsider, I believe Americans were so desperate for change that they would elected just about anyone who stood differently to the policies and ideologies of the past 8 years. I don't for a minute believe that Obama walks on water and believe that the economic 'stimulus' and money being spent in the past 60 days will do far more harm to the economy than it will help.

You want to bail out GM with $20 billion ( or whatever absurd number), give 20 billion to hard working people and let us bail out gm $20k dollars at a time. The money would still get there and thousands of hard working people would be driving new vehicles, better on fuel, and easier on the environment than their old vehicles.

Why is the solution to helping poor people, giving money to rich people and those who own companies that have been taking advantage of and making a living off the backs of poor people? There is not a less competent person to hand your money to than the government!

Oh I don't know. I could easily make arguments that Obama is quite the ordinary politician, albeit an experienced orator. Shucks, I stopped listening to him months ago when the rhetoric demonstrated a series of conclusory statements without any substance or facts. A statement that $787Billion will create or save 3.5 million jobs doesn't impress me when they don't show how or when and for whom.

If you say that 95% of the Americans will receive a tax cut often enough, folks are going to start to believe it even when simple arithmetic will tell you that the only way that can happen is to give them someone else's hard earned or borrowed money.

Sometimes when I hear them harp on "the last 8 years", I wonder if they believe that if they ignore 9/11 long enough, folks will forget that it even happened.

In Iran, we have "the Holocaust deniers". It appears that, in America, we have a number of "9/11 deniers". IMO, 9/11 shaped George Bush's policies every day following that attack.

I read the fine print and what I see coming from Obama is a momentous consolidation of power in the hands of one party that will affect our country for 20 years.

Jindal, on the other hand, is not only inarticulate, he and other spokesmen of that party have little to nothing to say but to criticize and harp "conservative", "conservative", without telling the listener how or what and when. Just more rhetoric in the other direction.

The difference is big government or small government. They won't say it but that's what it amounts to.

No matter who rises as a potential candidate for the Republican Party for 2012, the Democrats will generate a campaign of personal destruction. It's what they do. Republicans operate differently. They portray the opposition as less than patriotic Americans. I'm not sure which is worse but each is 100% predictable.

We're doomed.

Jay - there were certain other leaders in history that had charisma, needless to say, their reigns were devastating to the world. There were certain other leaders who were fantastic orators, needless to say, their reigns were devastating to the world.

So far, President Obama's actions have done nothing to raise the confidence of the American economy, American businesses, the American people, many of his loudest supporters, and, many of those foreign friends who were looking forward to "change".

He is attempting to consilidate more power into government, more control over the lives of American citizens.

Oh, and about that great orator thing, that is only with a teleprompter. He stumbles so much without one, sounding even more Bush-like than Bush, that the white house is even going to put a small video display into his podium and news conferences so that his staff can write the answers out for him.

Hi Jay ~ It's been such a huge and refreshing change to have an intelligent, forward-thinking leader as our President. After years of those in power sneering at smart people as "elites" (as though "elite" is a derogatory term!) I am delighted to my core to have real values back in the White House. Extraordinary? Absolutely!

Liz

Jay ~ I don't know how people see Obama as visionary or a great orator, but then again the nation is filled with people who can see nothing but messianic qualities of this most liberal fellow. Would to God he were a visionary, but he sees only a power grab and speaks great swelling words of transparency and bipartisanship without merit.

Wake up, get your wyes off of ideology and see him for what he really is.

You scare me sometimes, Jay. I thought you were more intelligent than that.

He even made reference to a deceased sheriff with whom he supposedly worked. Jindal has now retracted this claim, because it is not true.

Listening to his speech without knowing the sheriff story was a lie, I still thought it was a silly argument that only proved Republicans are incompetent when they are running the federal government.

Republicans had absolute power during Katrina. How ironic a Republican congressman during a Republican controlled house of representatives during a Republican administration trying to fight big bad Republican federal government bureaucratic red tape. How funny is that?

Wasn't George W Bush an ordinary person? Look where he got us.

Reading the comments is sometimes just plain painful. Looks like we need a god, or better say, fetish.

As when Obama was campaigning, there had never been any substance, but eloquent BS. Now in office he is spending (wasting) $39 Billion a day of your money, your children money, your grandchildren money on a most outrageous pretext that you need to spend to become wealthy.

When I read the advice for ordinary people to survive difficult times, it is to cut on going out, to cut on utilities, to be smart with the phone, etc.

When it is about the government, it is the opposite. They need to waste $30 Mil on a mouse, $600 Mil on sex education, and so on. Obama says that he would cut the deficit in so number of years in half. Yep, but do you understand that we do not have that deficit today in the amount that he would reduce it to? Do you understand that he wants to waste a lot more of our money and then cut the deficit to the level, which we have not even reached yet.

And yes, we had charismatic leaders and great orators, remember Germany of the 30s and 40s. And what these two have in common? Us, people who are willing to give someone the power, just because they are so fascinated by the preaching. And the preacher.

Jay, sorry for answering directly, just can't get over it. Mitchell, how what Jindal says makes Republicans incompetent. Can it make Jindal incompetent? Maybe, but how can you judge everyone by one speech? All you can actually say is that the speech was unimpressive, childish, and I may even agree with you on that. But it has nothing to do with incompetence. BTW, declaring the exact day to end the war does speak about the competency. Or is it American way to tell the enemy what, when and how we will be fighting? The absurdity of this does not bother you? BTW, Jindal is not running for the government, where do you take all that? Or you want to say that he is a bad governor?

As for Katrina, why not just be fair? There were hundreds of buses, and someone suggested to the mayor to evacuate people using these buses, and he did not. He did not believe that this would be needed. The buses were flooded, but this mayor was reelected. Why? Because what he did not do, he demanded for the Feds. He allowed himself act stupid, and not be ready, and then accused the Feds for being not ready and not responsive. He did everything wrong in preparation for the hurricane, and still he managed to BS people locally and nationally. I wonder why he did not go for the President, he has all the qualities for that.

When will we learn to see BS for BS, not for gold. If you hate republicans, just say it. No need to invent the reaon, as there is none.

And as for Jindal, maybe it is worth looking at how he runs the state and not how he talks about running it. At least he is not a waster. And when it comes to wasting our children money, heck with a poor orator, it is better than an eloquent madman, who already outspent Bush with his two wars. How can you not see it is beyond me.

Someone is in your wallet as we speak, and you are happy. What is wrong with us?

Jay, I keep trying to figure out what the president is capable of doing but speaking a bunch of rhetoric. He is a good speaker but he says one thing and does the opposite. If this is what's a great president then he will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever!

Jay,

Nice of yot to post this in the Silent Majority group. At least you know how to get points. Now, to answer your question...

If you feel that a President trying to turn our GREAT country into a disaster is extraodinary, then I agree.

If you feel that instigating more class warfare is extraordinary, than I agree.

If you feel that because he thinks the American people are that stupid to believe that adding TONS to the budget and then decreasing the deficit only to have it be more than what it was when he started is extraordinary, well than, there you have it! He is a great President.

OK, now back to your dreams!

We are watching the Democratic Machine destroy this economy daily. Each time they move their lips during the work week the stock market drops further. Each day they try come up with a new "plan" with no guts to it to just throw freshly printed currency in a fire breathing dragon's mouth. The president is nothing more than an "average politician" with extraordinary rhetoric. ..... Just words.

Get ready folks for some "Extraordinary Events." I tend to trust "average folks " way more.

MAR

Jon, My comment was in direct response to Jay's post about Bobby Jindal.

He even made reference to a deceased sheriff with whom he supposedly worked. Jindal has now retracted this claim, because it is not true.

Jindal's response to Obama was the same old conservative rhetoric. Cut taxes and government is bad. No plans no solutions. His story was supposed to be an example of ineffective government. You missed the point. The government during 2000-2006 was controlled by Republicans. George W Bush created the huge bureaucracy called Homeland Security. IMO it is an incompetent and corrupt agency. They were a day late and a dollar short over Katrina. Homeland Security's story that they didn't know about the levee breaks until the day after they happened was scarcely believable.

I don't hate Republicans I come from a prominent Republican family and i often vote Republican locally. However I am not happy that the Republican party has now become a regional southern far right Christian fundamentalist theocracy party.

Considering Jindall is governor of one of the poorest states in the country, a state that went through a big disaster that could have been prevented, I find it hard to believe that turning down federal money for his state will help his state but rather help his political career.

When Ronald Reagan said that government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem – he was partly right. The fact is: When government falls down on the job, it's the problem. Recessions get compounded, and recoveries get delayed. But when government does perform at a high level – when it makes decisions that are necessary to protect the greater good such as investing in infrastructure then recovery can be stronger than anyone expects.

Like real estate, all politics is local. In the end you get what you pay for. This year NYC celebrates the 400th anniversary that the Dutch discovered Manhattan island. Thank G-d NYC has expensive Dutch made levees that don't burst. The contrast between the New York City Bureau of Water Supply and the Orleans Levee Board could not be greater. Our local government works. We have the finest big-city water supply on the planet, one so clean that it doesn't need chlorination and regularly wins awards for its fine taste. We have great police and fire departments and the best hospitals in the world.

I do not think Obama is the messiah and I am opposed and disagree with him about several things. However, i will give him the benefit of the doubt as i did with George W. Bush. New Yorker's all gave Bush the beneifit of the doubt after 9/11 but he failed.

If Obama fails the pendulum will swing back. It swings to the right it swings to the left but the majority of Americans are in the center. Forget bipartisanship it doesn't seem possible with Rush linbaugh in charge of the GOP. We need non partisanship. Practical realistic ideas and solutions not based on right or left ideologies.

BTW: I don't just vote based on my wallet but what I think is the best direction for the country.

I for one would not feel good about elevating my mechanic or grocer to presidential status. The person that has the honor of being the leader of the free world needs to be exceptional, not average. I want a leader with the education and ethics and sensibility to lead our country. I am hopeful that this well educated and intelligent president can lead us out of the hole we are presently in.

Jay, Do you think the Dow will drop below 3000 this year or next year.

Jon, As far as telling our enemies our battle plans, it amazes me that there are still people who think PrezBO puts this nations security first.

MAR

I've oftern heard that Bobby Jindal was the wunderkind of the GOP but had never heard him. Now, I'm totally unimpressed. I think if he practices a little and doesn't let the GOP "handlers" screw around with him too much more, he may have a chane to make a name for himself, maybe eight years from now.

MAR

Jay: The republican spin machine is simply amazing. You start a conversation about Bobby "Brady" Jindal and off they go attacking President Obama. Good grief, the man has been in office what, 40 days? Bush and the republicans spent 8 years destroying this country. THE REPUBLICANS OWN THIS ECONOMY. It is going to take President Obama and the Democrats to repair it.

MAR

@ Nicholas: So... if Jay does not agree with you... you question his intelligence ? How pompous and self-impressed you are. So Jay "scares" you ? My dear man... you are pretty scary yourself.

AUG

Jay: The above comment, # 19, is a SPAM comment... and similar ones have been circulating for the past few weeks. I thought Active Rain had been able to stop them, but I guess they are breaking through again. I suggest you DELETE the comment above mine. I will "report" it to Active Rain, too. Take care... hope you are well. (8-4-09)

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