he so sucks....is he going to annouce a run for 2012 tonight?

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 10:32 PM. Reason : w]

2/24/2009 10:26:16 PM

I had no idea that this was his speaking style.

There's no way he'll be President.

2/24/2009 10:26:32 PM

oh shit jindals on? where can i stream this live

2/24/2009 10:26:45 PM

Is there a class of second graders sitting in front of Jindal?

2/24/2009 10:26:59 PM

OMG...can't wait until SNL...

2/24/2009 10:27:48 PM

lol. Yea he sounds like he is reading a story to grade school kids

2/24/2009 10:27:58 PM

So much potential....so little execution

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 10:30 PM. Reason : ]

2/24/2009 10:28:42 PM

Wow, I agree with Jindal on a lot more than I agree with Obama on but it sounds like he's reading a children's book to a class of kindergartners

2/24/2009 10:29:06 PM

BOOTSTRAPS AHOY

2/24/2009 10:29:12 PM

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"If it can be done in Baton Rouge, surely it can be done in Washington, D.C."

What

2/24/2009 10:32:29 PM

bobby jindal: indian kenneth parcell?

2/24/2009 10:33:11 PM

He has actually sounded better as it has gone along somehow...but it started off TERRIBLE and it still has been a pretty bad speaking performance overall

2/24/2009 10:34:49 PM

Bobby, of all the pork and BS you could've mentioned, you complain about volcano monitoring? I'm in favor of volcano monitoring. I would like to be aware of what volcanoes are doing. I don't think I'm alone in this sentiment.

If the only earmarks you guys could find were the mouse thing, the Vegas train, and keeping tabs on exploding mountains, then either you're idiots or the stimulus bill is the leanest thing to make it through congress in history.

2/24/2009 10:34:52 PM

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"and the private sector has done such a good job at attempting to address any of these topics. "

well, when the gov't makes it impossible to do so, what do you expect to happen?

2/24/2009 10:35:35 PM

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"Education: How's that working out for ya right now? Federal Department of Education? How's that helping out, really? "

I'd say it worked fan fucking tastic - that a product of a relatively under funded rural county school is under 30, is on his second home, and can afford to make the payment on it for more than a year while this job market gets it's act back together...I'd say our education system absolutely rocks.

2/24/2009 10:35:36 PM

^^ you left out the rest of my quote:

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"and the private sector has done such a good job at attempting to address any of these topics. oh, right. they would have if the government didn't stop them. yeah, sure. "

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 10:38 PM. Reason : .]

2/24/2009 10:38:26 PM

what the fuck was that shit? creepy as fuck when he popped out of the shadows. felt like he was reading to a bunch of kindergartners. that was awful.

2/24/2009 10:38:47 PM

^^^ well then, we need no more investment in it then, right? Tell me, how quickly does our education system adapt to pretty much anything? what do you think slows it down so much?

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"you left out the rest of my quote"

and? I know that's what you said, but it's not entirely the same as how I mean it. The gov't goes out and mucks around with shit, making it impossible for anyone else to accomplish anything. THat's not exactly the same thing as the gov't saying "no, you can't do that."

2/24/2009 10:41:20 PM

lol

there are no private schools

there are no doctors in private practice


WHAT HATH GOV'T MEDDLING WROUGHT?

2/24/2009 10:42:33 PM

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"The gov't goes out and mucks around with shit, making it impossible for anyone else to accomplish anything. THat's not exactly the same thing as the gov't saying "no, you can't do that.""

oh, another tactic - nit-pick and parse my words it their absolute literal meaning, even though I wrote it on the fly off the top of my head.

what you said was my bigger point, not just that government says "you can't do that"

2/24/2009 10:43:55 PM

there are private schools. and only the rich can usually afford them. convenient, no?
there are, of course, private doctors. But now hardly anyone can afford them, mainly due to gov't interference in the market, via the FDA and insurance mandates and scumsucking trial lawyers

2/24/2009 10:44:02 PM

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"how quickly does our education system adapt to pretty much anything?"

http://www.ncccs.cc.nc.us/
pretty damn quickly when given the resources

2/24/2009 10:44:25 PM

Couple the FAIL between Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal...well, the republicans are in a heap of trouble.

They better start turning to moderates like Crist or Pawlenty fast.....cause this aint working.

2/24/2009 10:48:59 PM

"Nobody messes with Joe" smacked of "Way to go Brownie". Obama said words that he thinks people want to hear. Results are a lot different from words.

Bobby sucked in that speech. I don't know how the GOP can regain any love from the country after their last 8 years. Perhaps it will take some massive screw-ups by democrats to get voters to climb back onto that elephant.

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"stimulus bill is the leanest thing to make it through congress in history."

Don't worry. Once the cash from the huge spending bill gets into the hands of the hundreds of governors and mayors, the porky fun will be poppin up all over.

2/24/2009 10:49:13 PM

damn, that response sucked.
This is all you need to know about Jindel
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=218391&title=clusterf#@k-to-the-poor-house


actually, no - the other thing you need to know is that he admits to believing that in college he cured a friend of cancer using an exorcism.
And he's a Creationist.

2/24/2009 10:50:10 PM

hahahaha OMG TRAIN TO DISNEYLAND!!!

Shut the fuck up.

2/24/2009 10:53:53 PM

ahaahhaa

the 3rd hottest trend on twitter right now is folks comparing bobby jindal to Kenneth the Page from 30 rock

2/24/2009 10:56:40 PM

As much fun as Jindal/Palin will be in 2012, I honestly hope Republicans run some real people with actual ideas instead of these bullshit cartoon characters.

I refuse to believe that all Republicans in Congress are like those two assholes, no matter how bad the GOP wants us to believe it (for whatever reason).

2/24/2009 11:02:07 PM

they want you to believe it because they motivate the evangelicals

they want to motivate the evangelicals because they've had their hands in their ears since 2006

2/24/2009 11:03:54 PM

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"I refuse to believe that all Republicans in Congress are like those two assholes, no matter how bad the GOP wants us to believe it (for whatever reason)."

If they want me to believe it, I'll go ahead and believe it, and fuck them for their efforts. When they find out it's alienating them from the rest of society, they'll either dive even further in and guarantee the end of the party, or they'll shape up and learn to suck less.

2/24/2009 11:05:10 PM

serious question

whens the last time a "major" party died, and what brought about its downfall?

2/24/2009 11:15:14 PM

The Whigs, I guess? They were one of the parties that that merged to form the Republican Party.

2/24/2009 11:18:33 PM

Hahah I was gonna guess the Tories in 1776.

2/24/2009 11:21:02 PM

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"I honestly hope Republicans run some real people with actual ideas instead of these bullshit cartoon characters."

Running a cartoon character with no ideas worked wonders for the Dems this past election, maybe they're just trying to follow suit?

2/24/2009 11:22:05 PM

i'm sorry did you just use the "i'm rubber you're glue" defense

2/24/2009 11:23:17 PM

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"Running a cartoon character with no ideas worked wonders for the Dems this past election, maybe they're just trying to follow suit?"

Can you honestly not see the difference between Obama and Jindal?

2/24/2009 11:28:49 PM

The Whig Party:

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"The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories. With deep fissures in the party on this question, the anti-slavery faction successfully prevented the nomination of its own incumbent President Fillmore in the 1852 presidential election; instead, the party nominated General Winfield Scott, who was soundly defeated. Its leaders quit politics (as Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties."

thats really the only one i can find

2/24/2009 11:31:04 PM

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"The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories"

The way I see it, religious fundamentalism could very well become the new slavery.

Comparison not intended to be applied literally in every facet. You people know what the fuck I mean.

2/24/2009 11:33:54 PM

Before that, the Democratic-Republicans split after Adams-Jackson scuffle, and the D-R's died off once Jackson's Democrats took over.

Then before that there was the Federalists, who died off after the Democratic-Republicans gained a monopoly.


So like three times, max, for parties who've had members in the White House.


So the lesson is-- two parties have died from being split over an issue (slavery in territories, the election of 1824), and one party has died off from simply being out of touch.

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM. Reason : ]

2/24/2009 11:36:10 PM

oh man

can you feel it

can you feel a world without republicans?

2/24/2009 11:43:54 PM

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"can you feel a world without republicans?"

Why are you so adamantly against just that one party?

That's like liking green-colored shit over brown-colored shit.

2/24/2009 11:46:35 PM

competition is a good thing

2/24/2009 11:48:08 PM

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"competition is a good thing"

It's better than the one-party alternative, anyway.

I'd rather have them arguing for years over which side gets to fuck things up than letting one side fuck up as much as they'd like.

2/24/2009 11:50:45 PM

where have i said i want one party

i would fully welcome a libertarian party filled with the fiscal/regulatory conservatives

and a party populated of the yokels who vote only on abortion

i'd honestly be able to vote for a true conservative then

but right now, as long as the two largest planks in the party are who i fuck and what happens after i fuck, i can't get on board son

and honestly, i'd probably NEVER advocate for my partner to have an abortion
but fuck someone telling me i can't just because it might have a "soul"

COMMENCE ABORTION FLAMEWAR

2/25/2009 12:08:03 AM

i always love when the republican party talks about deregulation, from business, to power, to education, to health

but won't even budge on deregulating marriage

2/25/2009 12:10:17 AM

Ah. Well, whatever then. Getting rid of the super-fundie party (or at least that branch of the repub party) would do some good for society as a whole. Far too many of them don't give a shit either way/don't know anything at all about the economy and just focus on trying to turn america into jesusland. Even worse, they make fiscal conservatism look bad by claiming to follow it and then doing the exact opposite.

Just seemed like you were advocating a democrat free-reign sort of situation with some of those posts. If not, then... yeah, that's cool.

2/25/2009 12:13:31 AM

hell no

i've never been a member of the party
i didn't vote for obama
and i detest nancy pelosi

[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 12:16 AM. Reason : unfortunately, with the current binary system, i'm going to trend dem every time]

2/25/2009 12:16:19 AM

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[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 3:03 AM. Reason : .]

2/25/2009 3:03:02 AM

I just watched the video. Jindal was an embarrassment

2/25/2009 3:03:02 AM

so i'm guessing this [piyush's speech] was basically the inverse of obama's 2004 DNC speech

full of divisive gloom, delivered in a way that makes people wonder whats with the hype

2/25/2009 3:06:56 AM