Bobby Jindal Announces for President. Does anyone care?

[Alley_Dweller]

@Dewey_Finn

Anyone going to challenge his legitimacy on birther grounds? Sure, he was born in the US, but he wasn’t conceived here. (His parents emigrated about six months before he was born, so unless he was really premature, the conception happened overseas.)

So he was an anchor baby?

Weren’t a lot of the birthers claiming that even if President Obama was born in Hawaii, both parent had to be citizens for him to be a natural born citizen?

[GIGObuster]

@astorian

I would have cared once. Jindal is smart and once showed promise of being a reformer.

Smart, a reformer?

• “Hahahaha! Oh, wait. You’re serious.”

Bobby Jindal (a Biology Major!) Pushes Creationism in School

When Jindal stepped into Republican politics in Louisiana, he had a choice to make. He could defend mainstream science, which sees evolution as the powerful, strongly supported, and widely tested theory that it is today. Or he could have joined the doubters and deniers that populate the electorate in his party. Campaigning for the governorship in 2007, Jindal touted his Christian faith, shied away from specific statements about evolution, and emphasized his commitment to local control of education. Louisianans didn’t have to wait long to find out what this meant for science.

Jindal signed the LSEA into law in 2008, endorsing the thinly veiled attempt to allow creationism into the science classrooms of his state. The backers of the law made it clear that material on intelligent design would be high on the list of supplemental materials that local boards and teachers could present to their students. Intelligent design is the re-labeled form of creationism that a federal court in Pennsylvania threw out of classrooms in the 2005 Dover v. Kitzmiller decision. The National Academy of Sciences has identified intelligent design as “not science” because it is “not testable by the methods of science.” The National Academy of Science’s opinion carried little weight with the Ivy League bio major.

In a 2008 interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, Jindal said that he wanted students “to be presented with the best thinking, I want them to be able to make decisions for themselves, I want them to see the best data. … I’d certainly want my kids to be exposed to the very best science. I don’t want any facts or theories or explanations to be withheld from them because of political correctness.” The problem, of course, is that if the “best science,” in the view of a local school board, includes creationism, the students in that school system are being cheated. Presenting an idea that has no scientific support as if it were the equal of a thoroughly tested scientific theory is academic dishonesty of the rankest sort. Indeed, this is why Jindal’s own genetics professor at Brown University, National Academy member Arthur Landy, advised him to veto the LSEA, advice Jindal ignored.

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• Bender from Futurama

[Simplicio]

@chizzuk

To put this in more context, President Obama’s approval rating in Louisiana is 42% (cite). Obama lost Louisiana in a landslide in 2012. And yet he is more popular there than Jindal. I really don’t know why Bobby is even bothering.

As a career move it probably isn’t that bad a plan. He’s obviously not going to get re-elected to anything in LA. So he mind as well do something to up his National profile, and maybe he can leverage that into a Cabinet appointment or at least a better Conservative Think tank job than he’d get otherwise.

Plus, who knows. Maybe Jeb, Rubio, Ryan, Cruz, Fiorina, Graham, Huckabee, Pataki, Perry, Christie and Walker will all get hit by an extremely deadly bus.

[wonky]

@Simplicio

Plus, who knows. Maybe Jeb, Rubio, Ryan, Cruz, Fiorina, Graham, Huckabee, Pataki, Perry, Christie and Walker will all get hit by an extremely deadly bus.

We call him “The Donald” around here.

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@Stringbean

I think Bobby Jindal is so smart he thinks he needs to act like a pandering religious nutjob to win.

Unfortunately for him, that position already has several suitors.

I think you misspelled ‘dumb’. Bolding mine.

[Leaffan]

@Bijou_Drains

Linda Blair is a fan

Explanation for a dumb Canuck?

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@Leaffan

Explanation for a dumb Canuck?

Linda Blair is an actor who starred in the movie The Exorcist. Bobby Jindal used to think he was an exorcist. Seriously.

[Leaffan]

@Onomatopoeia

Linda Blair is an actor who starred in the movie The Exorcist. Bobby Jindal used to think he was an exorcist. Seriously.

Thanks. Of course I knew who Linda Blair was/is. I didn’t know about Jindal. That’s some big-time woo for an elected governor.

[ElvisL1ves]

@Simplicio

So he mind as well do something to up his National profile, and maybe he can leverage that into a Cabinet appointment or at least a better Conservative Think tank job than he’d get otherwise.

Better yet, a Fox job. Sarah Palin’s is open.

[Alley_Dweller]

@Simplicio

As a career move it probably isn’t that bad a plan. He’s obviously not going to get re-elected to anything in LA. So he mind as well do something to up his National profile, and maybe he can leverage that into a Cabinet appointment or at least a better Conservative Think tank job than he’d get otherwise.

Or a Vice President job?

[Happy_Lendervedder]

@Onomatopoeia

In the now over-crowded field of Republican candidates, where in the pack is Jindal? What segment of the electorate does he appeal to? Seems to me Jindal’s positions are already covered by Huckabee.

Based on the video(s) he used to announce his candidacy, I don’t think his family even cares.

“So kids, I’m running for president–”
“TURTLE!”

[snowthx]

@ElvisL1ves

Better yet, a Fox job. Sarah Palin’s is open.

Precisely what I was going to say. Is there anyone on the Republican clown car NOT angling for a lucrative, post-campaign broadcasting career? Is any of them serious about running for, and being elected President?

[Alley_Dweller]

@snowthx

Precisely what I was going to say. Is there anyone on the Republican clown car NOT angling for a lucrative, post-campaign broadcasting career? Is any of them serious about running for, and being elected President?

Jeb. Presidentin’ is the family business, you know.

Given how hard the Republican spin machine has been pushing the “The Iraq thing was just W acting responsibly given the misinformation he got from the CIA” line, I think the establishment believes that he’ll be the one and they are trying to remove some of the baggage left over from W.

[Onomatopoeia]

@snowthx

Precisely what I was going to say. Is there anyone on the Republican clown car NOT angling for a lucrative, post-campaign broadcasting career? Is any of them serious about running for, and being elected President?

I think most of them are just publicly broadcasting their resumes in the hope of being offered a job somewhere in Conservatopia after the election. This is definitely the case with Jindal. He simply can’t be stupid enough to believe he has a chance in Hell of being the Republican nominee for president, much less winning the presidency itself.

[Onomatopoeia]

@Happy_Lendervedder

Based on the video(s) he used to announce his candidacy, I don’t think his family even cares.

“So kids, I’m running for president–”
“TURTLE!”

What a manipulative fool Jindal is. “Your mom and I have decided we are running for president. Now, you can’t tell anyone,” as he pretentiously records the entire conversation with a camera hidden in a tree, the video of which is subsequently posted everywhere.

Secondly, what do kids typically do when you tell them not to blab something to anyone? Right, they blab it to everyone, as I am sure Jindal is hoping.

[YogSothoth]

@Procrustus

Was he the “thirsty guy” or the “man-child”?

He was the guy who called on the GOP to stop being the stupid party then passed a law or something that dealt with teaching ID in Louisiana schools while saying evolution was “just a theory”. Something like that

[Dewey_Finn]

Bobby Jindal’s appearance presenting the GOP response to President Obama’s SOTU address reminded some commentators of Kenneth Parcell, the odd hick/man-child who is a page on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and who was played by Jack McBrayer.

[Dewey_Finn]

BTW, that’s the thing about being given an opportunity like delivering the opposition response to the SOTU address or making the keynote adddress at the national convention. You can shine and be the front runner next time, or you could, for some silly reason (like going off-camera for a water bottle), crash and burn the next night on the late night talk shows. Anyone remember Bill Clinton’s rambling, boring keynote at the 1988 DNC convention? His career could have ended right there.

[Alley_Dweller]

Just for the record, the water bottle incident was during Marco Rubio’s speech. He’s the one with the boyish face from Florida.

[ElvisL1ves]

Right, Jindal’s was like watching Vanessa Bayer as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy on SNL.