"The young, charismatic rising star, Bobby Jindal..."

[jenmito]

REALLY? If he's the best they got, I say, "bring it on!" I don't see him being any of those things except "young."

[Clio the Leo]

1. well his name IS Bobby Jindal....

.... so that part was true too. :)

[jenmito]

3. Well...

I said I don't see him as being those things. I don't SEE him as a "Bobby Jindal." :D

[seemunkee]

14. No that isn't even true

It's Piyush Jindal.

From Wiki
According to family lore, Jindal chose to re-name himself "Bobby" inspired by the sitcom character Bobby Brady after watching The Brady Bunch television series at age four. He has been known by his adopted nickname ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.<4>

[Hepburn]

29. OMFG..........

PISSY JINDAL FOR POTUS!!!! :rofl:

[mecherosegarden]

2. He doesn't look very honest.. N/T

[JI7]

Jindal does not have charisma and he is not attractive either

[jenmito]

5. I agree.

[Clio the Leo]

7. And he would NOT inspire our darling Jackeens to make photo threads.

And that's all you need to know right there! :)

[Jennicut]

25. ROFL....that is for sure

:rofl:

[endersdragon34]

43. Can I just ask

Is that reason not to like the guy? Would we not rather have a smart President then a charasmatic/good looking President. Not saying we can't have both, but ugly dull President can be good too, heck I am an aspie who wants to get into politics, so thats basically my only hope! lol

[jenmito]

44. The point of my OP is that the "liberal media" is painting Jindal as something

he is NOT according to most people I've spoken to/posted with. Why is the media pushing him as something he's not? Why can't they just call him a smart politician (if he is) instead of hyping him up to be so much more?

[treestar]

45. Typcial of Republics: they think they can make him into an Obama

by simply declaring it to be so.

Dubya was similarly lionized. Just printing it and saying it over and over didn't make it true.

[jenmito]

47. Yup. They obviously didn't learn from Palin...

or Steele (whom they chose just to counter our Dem. Black president). Let them keep pushing him. I doubt the voters will buy what Jindal is selling.

[elleng]

4. ISN'T

.

[Captain Lance Bass]

6. Repugs won't vote for him

he's to much of a "darkee" and looks kinda "muslim"

Now Sarah Palin...theres a good lookin white woman who can shoot a gun in the name of Jebus.

[Clio the Leo]

8. They just selected Steele........

..... I think they're all about tokenism at the moment. They all think, on a subconscious level, that we all voted for Barack because he's black. So they go out like Bear Bryant and get them "one" too.

And heck, if you're an average conservative White American, what's the difference between an Indian American or an African American anyway? (except of course for the fact that one of them was present at the first Thanksgiving and all ha ha.)

These people raised that Palin woman to near-Reagan plateaus of admiration. I wouldn't put anything past them.

[loyalsister]

13. He's even got that funny name thing going for him

All the right stuff

[BuelahWitch]

23. But that was the Repug leaders

Your average redneck racist won't come out to vote for him.

[Clio the Leo]

62. Your average rednack racist tells me 14 times a day how much they like Steele.

They say it with this tone of "we got a black guy too!" in their voices. When I tell him that "we" do to ..... meaning me and you and everyone else too .... well, they never know what to say to that. :)

Obviously we dont like him for the same reasons though. lol

[grytpype]

9. Isn't he a Hindoo?

[Baikonour]

17. Roman Catholic, actually, according to his Wikipedia entry. eom

[Blue_In_AK]

10. The male Sarah Palin?

Isn't that what they were saying about her a little while ago?

[snowbear]

11. He flew up here last week to congratulate Miss Palin on getting her G.E.D...

.
.




.................

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Oh, that's too funny, Larissa...

I mean, Snowbear. You're cracking me up here. :rofl: :rofl:

[Vinca]

15. I see zero charisma about Bobby Jindal. Nada. None.

As soon as he opens his mouth, one word comes to mind: WEASEL. Loved him pimping the "Disneyland to Vegas" train.

[old mark]

16. Hey, if the GOPs say he has chrisma, then he has it!

After all, they are still saying Palin's not stupid....

I believe you are right - the GOPs believe deeply that Obama was the Democratic candidate because he is black, and was guaranteed a certain number of "ethnic" votes.

They are extremely cynical, shallow, evil stupid people, and that is just the "best" of them.

I could see a Palin/Jindalticket in '12, losing by even more than 9 mil votes.

mark

[Clio the Leo]

18. Check out Freetopia after his rebuttal tonight...

.... that should be interesting.

[Hepburn]

19. He looks like a typical RW dork to me....

...

:rofl:

Just the kind of guy that always interrupted everyone cuz he thought he was soooooo freaking cool...and he was ANYTHING but cool.

[jenmito]

27. Yuck...

I REALLY hope they run him against Obama in '12. I can't imagine 200,00 people going to see HIM speak in Germany! I can't imagine him even WANTING to reach out to the rest of the world. When will the Repubs. realize it's NOT about someone's race or gender, but the MESSAGE of the person?

[Hepburn]

28. Heya, Jen....

....:hi: Good to see ya!

[jenmito]

30. Hey, Hep...

Good to see you, too! :hi: I can't wait for Obama's address to congress tonight! And how 'bout him taking questions from members of congress yesterday, huh?! Wasn't that terrific? Even the "liberal" MSM was calling it "incredible" and "remarkable"!

[Hepburn]

31. I am gonna have to wait for a re-run....working on legal bullshit....

...and had my nose buried in my computer screen and forgot....:cry:

Will turn on tube now and see what is what...thanks for the reminder! :hi:

[jenmito]

33. You missed yesterday's Fiscal Responsiblity Summit Closing?

That's the title of it in case you want to find it online...or I could try to find it for you. All I could find was a transcript: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-in-question-and-answer-session-at-the-closing-of-the-Fiscal-Responsibility-Summit/

But the video is much better. Yeah-tonight at 9pm ET. :hi:

[Dinger]

20. This Morning On NPR, I Heard Someone Say It's Way Too Early

I can't remember who it was, but I think it was a repug, or referred to something a repug said.

[SuperTrouper]

21. Yep, Bobby Jindal will not even be in the running, the Grand Old Party of the Grand Wizards

will select John Thune (if Thune gets re-elected in South Dakota). I expect a John Thune-Jeb Bush ticket in 2012 to go against Obama-Hillary (yes, Biden will chose not to run again).

[Ishoutandscream2]

22. Hey, I have seen no real evidence he was born in the US

Same goes for Richard Shelby.

[WinkyDink]

24. Charisma?? THIS GUY?

[jenmito]

32. I TRULY believe they're doing nothing more than looking at the color of his skin...

and therefore concluding he's the equivalent of Obama. Sad, really, but I wish they WOULD choose him to run against OUR guy!

[WinkyDink]

41. I think it's due to a trend: India is "in" right now. He might even drop the "Bobby".

[Rashel]

26. He reminds me of a cartoon villain. Maybe from Frosty the Snowman....

[Kalyke]

54. Jack Frost

It's from one of the Santa Claus puppet movies.

[vaberella]

34. He's an Exorcist. I don't know how much more charisma he needs than that.

:sarcasm:

[Thrill]

35. Its clear MSM is going to try to create someone for the GOP

When you see and hear Jindal, the last thing you come up with is charismatic

[jenmito]

37. I can't wait to see what the talking heads say about Jindal's rebuttal tonight...

Today they've been playing bits of what OBAMA said in HIS rebuttal to Bush last year, so I'm sure they'll compare Jindal's to his.

[KansDem]

36. Yeah, NPR was whoring for this guy big time this morning...

..along with Sarah Palin, and someone else who's name escapes me. Guess Jindal, Palin, and the other guy are the ones to watch this presidential election season...:eyes:

[jenmito]

39. I thought NPR was liberal!

Have they changed?

[KansDem]

46. You bet they have!

I noticed it during Campaign2000 when Cokie Roberts "reported" on the Bush Charm Offensive. "Charm offensive?" I thought to myself. Yeah, "Charm Offensive." She came on one morning on "Morning Edition" to tell us about how "charming, oh so charming" Bush was. And that he liked to give out nicknames.

Cokie claimed he would use this "charm" to get things done in DC...:puke:

[jenmito]

48. Wow...

do they CALL themselves "liberal"? If so, that makes it 1,000 times worse.

[KansDem]

50. I don't know what they call themselves now. I stopped listening after Cokie's "report." (nt)

[jenmito]

51. Oh. OK. I don't blame you.

[harun]

66. I think they have.

[Orsino]

38. Brought to you by the MSM that tried to tell us that Rumsfeld was sexy.

:eyes:

[jenmito]

40. And we all know what happened to HIM!

Good-let them keep it up.

[ObamaKerryDem]

61. You can't possibly be serious...LOL!

His name and "sexy" don't even belong on the same page, much less the same sentence.. :puke:

[Orsino]

64. They were, though I noticed that the meme disappeared quickly.

I think it was mostly noting his appeal to older women, and happened early in the * Administration when the MSM was trying its hardest to sell us the various pigs in pokes.

[WI_DEM]

42. the MSM trying to brain wash the sheeple again

[SoxFan]

49. Flavor of the Month

Jindal is the new face. We went through this with Sarah Palin six months ago. After a while, the glow will start to fade.

Right now, his background makes him interesting. He's a south Asian in an overwhelmingly white party, and a nerdy policy wonk in a state that usually prefers scoundrels, rogues, and batshit freaks of nature. Remember, in the 1991 and 1995 Louisiana gubernatorial runoffs, all four finalists (Edwards, Duke, Foster, Fields)have either gone to jail or been the subject of corruption probes.

Eventually, though, Jindal's weaknesses will catch up with him. he's as charismatic as a head cold, and his brand of Catholicism is of a somewhat flaky variety. Also, Louisiana being Louisiana, there is inevitably going to be someone in his administration with a bundle of cash baked into a king cake or something...

[jenmito]

52. Yeah, but...

they shouldn't be calling him "charismatic." He's so far from it that they should be embarrassed for describing him that way.

[SoxFan]

57. I agree with you on that count

"Interesting" would fit, but "charismatic" is really stretching things to the breaking point.

[jenmito]

59. Exactly.

Charismatic he is not and never will be.

[gkhouston]

58. F.O.T.M., with all the appeal of a lollipop that's been in the couch cushions for 30 days. n/t

[jenmito]

60. Or tofu. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

53. Charisma is not made, it just is.

Jindal doesn't possess it, and no matter what the Corporate media says, it ain't gonna appear.

[jenmito]

55. Exactly!

He doesn't HAVE it. Can you imagine posters being made of him like Obama's "HOPE" poster? Nope.

[Rashel]

56. Same thing I said. You don't "make" a leader!

[DesertRat]

63. I don't see "Bobby Brady" Jindal as charismatic at all

Maybe he is in person, but it doesn't come across on tv.

[harun]

65. The media is just going to keep repeating it until it is so.

[8 track mind]

67. Rushbo was heaping praise on him yesterday. sick, just sick. n/t

[Jennicut]

68. Bobby is 37, only 4 years older then me but there is nothing young and "hip"

about him. Barack, at ten years older, relates to younger people and older people at the same time. He seems youthful without trying to hard. Bobby needs to learn some lessons from the master.