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The Future Of The GOP?

March 4, 2009 7:24 AM

He's been called the Republican Obama and some think he may run for the presidency some day. But his national debut caused some to doubt Bobby Jindal. Morley Safer profiles the governor of Louisiana.

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by fridanck March 5, 2009 11:44 AM EST
Gov. Bobby Jindal is another quick trick candidate of the Republican party. A brown-skinned Indian, young male Sarah Palin. I think it incredulous that CBS even gave this man air time. Issues not personalities won the top job in Washington. The Republicans need to get that into their fat heads. The balance of power has shifted. Get over it. Too long have the poor and the middle class suffered under the Republican parties judgements and (bad) leadership.
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by psychrelic March 4, 2009 11:34 AM EST
As an independent I find it very sad that so many, especailly liberals of any party affilitaion, are so threatened by Gov Jindal that they must engage in the low arena of personal attacks.

From the moment of Gov Jindal's entrance on the camera for his response to Pres. Obama's speech (remember Chris Mathew's "Oh God!"), through all the NBC affiliates and the Sunday talk shows, up into last night with Rachel Maddow,all we heard was how bad he was. Of course, the more they talked the less we heard!

The personal attacks seemed to be based on he is young, he is Republican, he talked funny, he looked funny --- Gosh! Didn't they all sound so diverse, progressive, open-,omded -----NOT!

It cracks me up when they take this particular low road as they could just as well be talking about our President at age 42 or so. The big difference of course is that Gov Jindal actually has a load of experience running something, he has been active in questioning his own party, and he has actually cleaned something up (the graft in his state) while being instrumental in putting Looziana back in business after Katrina and in spite of the Orleans Mayor, the old Gov., and a tepid at best Federal response.

All in all, it is clear Gov, Jindal scares the beejeezus out of the Liberals in this country!
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by Reality101 March 4, 2009 1:15 AM EST
From the eyes of an independent, I find the fawning over Bobby Jindal nauseating. He claims that he wants to change how the government does business. Really? If that's the case, why did he join the Republican party? Why join any party at all? Towing any party line, by definition, strips away sincerity in one's claim to change politics. The fact that he's garnered support from Limbaugh and Gingrich should be enough evidence of that.
He believes in "Intelligent Design", is against stem cell research and opposes abortion rights. So once more we have someone who wants to impose the consequences of his own religious views on everyone else. Add this to the hypocrisy of his remarks about overspending Democrats, and I fail to see where any change is.
Sounds like the same old fundamentalist Republican crap to me. It's just been repackaged by another smiley politician who also saw fit to repackage his own name.
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by Louisianakid March 4, 2009 12:32 AM EST
CBS needs to send a real investigative reporter to give" the rest of the story" and a more balanced story to the nation and more importantly, the "gullible's of Louisiana. You can start with Clancy Dubos-political editor of The Gambit weekly magazine, who "tells it like it is" and serves as political consultant to CBS affliate WWL-TV, Chanel 4 in New Orleans. Areas like the phony ethics laws that are virtually unenforceable and Jindal has had top people on his staff in violation, while extending the time for compliance. Not to mention his own violation & fine for a campaign violation.
He's a nice guy, but marches to the drum beat of his GOP handlers i.e., Karl Rove & Limbaugh!;
and don't forget the "call girl' accomplice-Family Values, Hypocrite-junior Senator, David Vitter,
who tries to micromanage the Republicans in the Louisiana legislature through his mouthpiece,
House leader-Jim Tucker-which is a story in itself. By the way, nice guy, wish-y-wash-y, Gov. Jindal put on a big fund raiser for Vitter in Baton Rouge not long ago, who is also a proponent of strict ethics laws, while he, himself had to pay a federal campaign violation fine of $25,000 not too long ago. I almost forgot, after Jindal was last elected to the Congress, he immediately started campaigning for Governor, ignoring the voters of the first district of Louisiana and wound up with the second worst voting record-missing over 400+ votes and second only to Bill Jefferson, who was first, while fighting his legal battles. In the votes Jindal did cast, he voted strictly partisan GOP/Bush/Rove/Limbaugh and in many cases against the people of Louisiana. There is a lot more out there and even though some of the reporters for the Times Picayune do a good balanced job and don't let up, there is still another publication-The New Orleans Levee newspaper that has some deep shovels!
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by fmrnewzr March 2, 2009 5:50 PM EST
Ever since television began electing presidents from JFK to Obama, voters have incrementally shifted from common sense questions/knowledge/issues to the charm of aw shucks toothy grins. We got Castro, Vietnam, Watergate, a 21% prime rate, the Trickle Down Theory, Monica Lewinsky and Iraq. But Bobby Jindal and Barack Obama represent even more danger as the newest generation of wrecklessly ambitious political rock stars who've learned that passing the test without knowing the material is all that matters. They're dangerous because the next 911 will take the kind of deep experience neither have and there won't be time to ask for advice. Shame on you, Morley Safer, for dumbing us down a little more with your hackneyed Louisiana corruption stereotype while you let the big fish off the hook. Aw shucks.
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by rehmie March 2, 2009 3:19 PM EST
I thought the Republican's Slum Dog Millionaire, Gov. Jindal, did a nice job in responding to the President's address. He was candid, humourous and most delightfully lacking of the hot air and venom that the Dark Knight Rush Limbaugh exudes.
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by 99chris99 March 2, 2009 1:54 PM EST
It was glaringly obvious that Morley/CBS wanted to avoid identifying the name and party affiliation of the governor preceding Jindal. She was responsible (one of 3 key persons - we all know the other 2) for the incompetent handling of the Katrina mess, and narrowly beat Jindal in his first race for governor. She is Kathleen Blanco, wait for it ...democrat. Louisiana voters were painfully aware of her party affiliation - that's why Jindal won so handily.

Another example of the game the MSM plays: "name that party!".
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by gravity07 March 2, 2009 12:29 PM EST
BOBBY JINADAL WAS PURSUED BY HARVARD MEDICAL & YALE LAW SNUBBED HIS NOSE AT BOTH OF THEM(ATTENED OXFORD VIA RHODES SCHOLARSHIP!!). HE IS A VERY INTELLIGENT & MORAL MAN; HE MAY NOT YET BE THE SPEAKER OBAMBI IS, BUT HE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT AND WOULD CRUSH OBAMBI IN A DEBATE. OBAMBI DID NOT PERORM TO WELL IN COLLEGE UNTIL HIS FINAL TWO YEARS AT HARVARD(THAT POT SMOKING CAN DO SO MUCH DAMAGE). OBAMBI IS OUT IN FOUR
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by SteveF50 March 2, 2009 12:13 PM EST
magenta0947 is obviously one of the many liberals in Louisiana that is receiving govt entitlements. Bobby Jindals record as head of health and hospitals is above reproach. magenta also comments on the poor education record that Louisiana has and is very correct on this point but once again fails to recognize that Jindal has only been in office a year. How do you expect him to turn around 150 yrs of neglect in one year. Personally I think the system is to far gone and cant be corrected by anyone. magenta then mentions the inherited state surplus that we had but as most with their head in the sand convienently forgets that we were hit with a massive hurricane that devestated the state once again. While the state has weathered the economic downturn that the rest of the country has felt it is still not bringing in the dollars that it did before the Democrats let Wall street collapse. I am also a native Louisianian with a good education from the state and the sense to see that this man is the strongest, honest and most moral governor we have had in our sordid history. During Gustav he recited facts and figures on every parish from memory, he didnt have notes or a teleprompter. Did Kathleen Bumblo do that during Katrina? No she froze. Jindal was on the television frequently reassuring the citizens and providing information. He is a born leader. His response the other night after Obama's speech was out of character for him. His staff convinced him to change his speaking style and it was subpar. That staff member should be fired. Jindal is a good and intellegent man and will be on the national scene for quite some time If I was Mary Landrieu I would be worried about my job.
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by magenta0947 March 2, 2009 10:32 AM EST
It seems you have been totally snowed by Bobby Jindal. What a puff piece about a governor who makes a lot of noise about not taking the desperately needed Federal Stimulus Package. Louisiana has a terrible record on taking care of it's poor, of breaking promises on (guess what, Bobby's specialty) health care and most importantly, EDUCATION. I wonder why you didn't have Morley Safer ask him some real questions on why he WON'T take these funds. As a native Louisianian, I so very frustrated by this man's failed Republican attitudes. Mr. Jindal, in his "conservative" wisdom, has turned the inherited state surplus into a deficit in record time. Obama, really?
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