Bobby Jindal, we’re told, in Baton Rouge was chained,
And for eight years he there remained;
He never complained, nor did he vent,
While he waited to run for president
So he could torment the soul of a nation
With moral bankruptcy and deprivation.
He asked of ALEC, wouldn’t it be grand
To become the leader of all the land?
ALEC said yes, it would be loads of fun
But there’re things you should know, son;
The media there ain’t lazy and they surely ain’t dumb
And they’ll chew on you like a big chicken drum.
A poll was taken for his groundwork to be a-layin’
Only to see him finish behind Sarah Palin;
Then appeared the devil with a contract he drew
For Jindal to run against Mary Landrieu;
But the deal was nixed and Satan to hell returned
Leaving Bobby with so much to be learned.
You don’t arrive with promises of transparency
And then deal from the bottom for all to see;
You don’t sell out our state, or from where we sit
The cloak of higher ambition will never fit;
You don’t enrich your friends on the backs of the poor
Or you’ll find your poll numbers down in the sewer.
You see, Bobby Jindal, the truth you’ve not discerned
Is that respect as a leader must first be earned.
You and your donors have surely had your fun
But you will never be elected to Washington;
Your honor is shot; all your political capital spent,
So don’t think for a minute you’ll ever be president.
—(With apologies to the anonymous composer of Hell in Texas)
Louisiana Voice 
Love your poetry! You are a ray of light shining in the midst of corruption. Thank you for your continued devotion in getting the truth to the ordinary population.
My devotion material this a.m. is Proverbs 29:2…”When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan..”
Everyone’s groaning now…..but there is no quick fix!
Mine is Matthew 25: 31-46…”and He shall separate the sheep from the goats…”
YOU should have been appointed poet laureate of LA! Thanks for brightening the day!
You’re a better man than I. I could have never composed a poem about Jindal and not used profanity.
Two places Bobby Jindal ain’t never gonna live:
1. The White House
2. Heaven
Matthew 25:35-46
AMEN!
Got dat rite!
BJ sure has left off bragging about his Catholic faith of late. What with the new Pope attacking the Republican philosophy – so oft exploited by him – that poor people deserve to suffer – mention of his “faith” at this point would surely conjure some very negative comparisons between his “personal moral code” & his deeds as governor (as well as what he did as a LA Congressman & as head of DHH in the 90s). Yes, the media outside of Louisiana will have a field day if he even thinks of running for national office!
Could he be the anti-Christ in disguise as he could surely fit the bill, trying to rise up and overtake by putting down all those who are “in need” most of which he has caused. He feels he doesn’t need the people of this state, for if he did he wouldn’t be such a dictator, but knowing his feelings for others only causes one to wonder if perhaps he’s not as smart as he thinks!
Great work!
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Methinks one could reference The devil went down to Louisiana, instead of Georgia. Left the state with gators nipping at his heels, and those gators would be the LA taxpayers. Oh, Lordy, Lordy, how does the state recover?
Keep the faith 33 , the state can’t recover until the Feds exposé the corruption of the chosen few! #Godhelpthemall. Now we can understand why God’s Son, Jesus Christ would not get involved in politics, although the government still rests upon on His shoulders. He would never allow Himself to become the King of men! Instead, He chose to honor the will of His Father, hence making the sins of men befall the shoulders of Christ! There will be consequences! I pray that it comes sooner than later!!
Power Is The Rule Of All Evil.
We must remember that when we do harm to the least of them, we will Pay.
Everyone must realize, Together We Can Make A Difference.
I do believe Jindal needs to read these words again!!
If he has even read them for the first time as of yet!!!!
Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
Saturday, March 4, 1865
Weeks of wet weather preceding Lincoln’s second inauguration had caused Pennsylvania Avenue to become a sea of mud and standing water. Thousands of spectators stood in thick mud at the Capitol grounds to hear the President. As he stood on the East Portico to take the executive oath, the completed Capitol dome over the President’s head was a physical reminder of the resolve of his Administration throughout the years of civil war. Chief Justice Salmon Chase administered the oath of office. In little more than a month, the President would be assassinated.
Fellow Countrymen:
AT this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
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