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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Evangelicals VOTE for OBAMA in 2012--He's your best candidate

With Mike Huckabee deciding not to run for President, I still contend that Barack Obama is the Evangelicals best candidate for President. His resume is quite impressive. He has confessed his belief in Jesus in front of millions. He called him by name by the way. He has been married to the same woman for 14-years and he has two lovely daughters who seem to be well rounded. He is also building leadership experiences that make him a good and deliberate military leader. Just look at how he took out Osama bin Laden. His work, as a domestic leader, is non-impeachable. Just ask Donald Trump and the birthers. So how does he compare to the leaders in the GOP field:

Mitt Romney: He is said to be the front-runner but the Wall Street Journal recently called him Obama’s running mate because of the Healthcare bill he passed in Massachusetts. It is what Obama based his healthcare reform bill on. It is Romney’s albatross.Romney’s other problem is that he is a Mormon. That may fly with those social conservatives in the north, but Evangelicals from the Bible belt will have a hard time with his religion because they do not think Mormons are going to heaven.
Newt Gingrich: Newt is probably the most financially and governmentally astute of the current candidates, but Newt has a problem keeping his pants on. Newt’s current wife worked in his office during Bill Clinton’s impeachment over Monica Lewinsky. They had an affair that lasted for years. Newt believes, rightly, that social conservatives will forgive him, but he will also have a problem with media because bloggers will constantly challenge him on the moral issues on which he has no standing but talks about anyway.
Jon Huntsman: Huntsman looks too much like an Obama ally since his stint as Ambassador to China. He also does not pass the religious mustard because he is Mormon.
Rick Santorum: This guy has a Google problem that he may never overcome. Google his last name and see what comes up.
Ron Paul: The Texas legislator has a minor credibility problem and his own party really does not want to vote for him. He may have the best chance of being the darling of the Tea Party though.
Donald Trump: Buffoon.
Sarah Palin: I hope she does run because she has got some hard questions to answer. She may be the one GOP candidate who can pull together the evangelicals and the social conservatives except she is prone to bouts of idiocy.

So, Evangelicals, you should VOTE for Obama in 2012. He is the best man for the job according to your core beliefs.

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is an Anchor Baby

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal learned that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. You remember Jindal, he is the Governor who said that he would sign the birther bill if it crossed his desk. Well it appears that some industrious Louisianans decided to put the same pressure on Jindal because neither of his parents were born here. They are both Indian nationals who immigrated here on ‘highly skilled worker visas”. His mother was pregnant at the time. Do you see the irony in this? A week after our President had to release his birth certificate, so did Jindal.

However, he still has a problem. You see for birthers, it is not about whether Jindal is a citizen; it is the fact that he does not look or have the name of an American president. You see his name is not Bobby. It is really Piyush Jindal. He chose the name Bobby for himself because of Bobby Brady on "The Brady Bunch" or as one Times-Picayune reader put it "because every time someone said Piyush someone said "Bless you." Neither his mother nor father was born here. They came here on student Visas in 1970s--his father to work as an Engineer and his mother as a spouse. His mother was pregnant when she came to the states and received special dispensation from Louisiana State University. She got a month off to have her baby. Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal is an anchor baby.

This all came about because of article in which someone gave Jindal a middle name—he does not have one. “Piyush Amrit Jindal is the last man in America who should give his blessing to a birther bill.” My favorite line from the Times-Picayune article was from Jindal’s chief of staff, “Opponents have referred to Gov. Jindal as Piyush 'Amrit' Jindal for years to insinuate that someone with a foreign-sounding name is less American than you or I,” said Timothy Teepell. And there is the rub; Piyush Jindal would have trouble being president because he is not white. He does not have a white name and his parents were not born here.

The simple reason is birthers are racist. It is not about whether Obama was born here, it is about the color of his skin and Piyush has learned that lesson the hard way. Or as one columnist put it, “The man on the phone couldn't understand why people were even entertaining the idea of a Bobby Jindal presidential campaign. The Louisiana governor can't run for the White House, he said, because his parents were born in India.” Jindal may run for President in 2012 or he may be chosen for a Vice Presidential candidate. The bill that he plans to sign would make him ineligible if he were born today. Be careful where you throw stones Mr. Jindal.

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