If I were to write non-stop between now and the 2016 presidential election, I could never capture the accuracy or the relevance of Lamar White’s CenLamar post of today.
If you do nothing else during the holiday season, please take the time to read this:
Louisiana Voice 
Bobby is a highly intelligent man who unfortunately plays to the Tea Party. Most of what he has done builds his resume, so he can point to their platform and say, “That’s what you want done? I’ve already done it!” Unfortunately in practice, what he has done has virtually destroyed LA, as your friend so aptly describes. An irony here I noted way back in the days of Long ago, we bayour folk elected welfare governors every other term while praising the opposite in national politics. Jindal disappointed me greatly. Treasurer Kenndy seems the most honest and able man in state government today, but alas, my knowledgable friends tell me he hasn’t the charisma to sell the voters. I’m not so much in praise of Kennedy, he’s just the only example I’ve seen who is both capable and honest. But I’m very willing to be shown another – or a dozen more.
Man he hit the nail on the head or better yet dropped the bobby pin down the drain with the truth. Great article thans for sharing.
I am actually shaken by the writer’s ability to capture the essence of Jindal. This is indeed a spectacular piece! Would that I were so eloquent. Thanks, Tom, for sharing.
Lamar certainly did a great job with that piece, didn’t he? I sat there and read the piece twice just to capture all that he put in there.
me, too!
He definitely hit a home run with this piece about the evolution of Barry and Bobby. One has intelligence tempered with compassion, while the other one is smart but insanely ambitious in his quest for world domination. All the money in the world can’t buy BJ any class while President Obama maintains his dignity in the face of blatant rudeness, racism and disrespect from Bobby’s ilk. Everyday BJ just looks worse. Side note/question: And what’s up with these politicians posing in duck blinds – Edwards, Vitter, Jindal – there may be others. Are there no worthy citizens to pander to other than Duck Dynasty? And to wrap this up – MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TOM! We appreciate your diligent efforts to shine the light.
Barry and Bobby both promised to have the most open and transparent administrations, but tragically, both have delivered exactly the opposite.
Sharyl Attkisson, former investigative reporter for CBS News, details in her book, Stonewalled, the tactics used by Barry’s administration to distract, discredit, and malign the well-researched reports of his administration’s missteps and misdeeds. The more sinister tactics included surreptitiously bugging her computers and tapping her telephones.
Those who cover Bobby’s administration may have found some of those tactics used here in Louisiana.
Ambition, overblown egos, and lust for power are found in all political ideologies.
Lamar is right, Jindal is to the republicans what Obama is to the democrats, puppets being pushed and prodded. But both are equally bad. I think Lamar was trying to make us believe that Obama is the success story and Jindal is the failure. Both are failures in my opinion. He writes about Mr. O being the Harvard Law Review editor but fails to mention that he is the only editor in it’s history to have never written an article or an editorial. He states that Jindal got elected because we have a void of qualified, highly educated candidates(we would be better off with a farmer in my opinion). He states that the Landrieu’s saved New Orleans, c’mon really? And he spews his hatred toward those “radical Christian dominionists…who detest science…who are mortified by observable facts”, which actually means that he hates those with differing opinions than he. He does have the parallel between Mr. O and Mr. J correct, but he had to throw in the disclaimer that because of religion Mr. J is worse? Or maybe because Mr. O sat and listened to Rev. Wright for 20+ years, they are both wrong?
The jury is still out on Obama because his policies are just now being implemented. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a Obama fan at all, but gas prices are down, unemployment is down, JIndal wiped this state out and privatized its resources to his cronies. I doubt Louisiana will recover from his policies for decades to come. We have no higher education or public health system left in this state. Anyone who approves of what Jindal has done to us is either a party line extremist or hasn’t been keeping up.
Barry has been busy privatizing public education via Arne Duncan and his Chicago-style reforms. He has no problem selling out the people who helped get him elected (and ultimately the children of our nation.) For that, his policies are all suspect.
“And he spews his hatred toward those “radical Christian dominionists…who detest science…who are mortified by observable facts”, which actually means that he hates those with differing opinions than he.”
I’m spewing hatred? HATRED? Really?
Yes and you demean yourself by ridiculing and calling names to those who disagree with your narrow world view. Oh, Mr. Aswell, the oil prices are down because the Saudis are fighting ISSA(or ISSLA or whatever the latest Muslim terrorist group calls themselves) the only way they know how. They are strangling them with a lack of oil money. Iran can’t make it on less than a $100 a barrel. So Mr. O gets no credit for low oil pries.
Can’t quite follow your logic on the oil prices but I believe I’d be safe in saying if oil prices suddenly escalated, I bet I know who you’d blame. I am not a Obama apologist by any stretch but with the barrage of criticism he’s faced from every possible source and with a Republican House, it’s a wonder he has gotten anything done. Just as you claim I cannot credit Obama for lower oil prices, neither can you blame him for everything wrong. As much as I disagree with Gov. Jindal, there are times I agree with him. His proposal to merge UNO and SUNO was a sound policy but he could never get that through the legislature just as Obama could never rein in an out of control Wall Street because Congress is owned by Wall Street.
Don’t mistake my criticism with hatred. I am not and have never been a hateful person. 🙂
Tom, President Obama has not gotten the criticism that President Bush received. Not even a fraction. The oil prices are low because Iran and the terrorists are living off oil revenues. The lower the price the less money they have. The Saudis can’t fight them on the battle field but they’ll do everything in their power financially to reign them in. And Lamar, name calling is a form of bullying which is hatred by vocabulary. Merry Christmas to all!
This debate could go on forever and believe it or not, my goal with this blog was to stimulate an exchange of ideas, both pro and con. To that end, I seem to have succeed with this post.
But Lordy, to say Obama has not received the criticism Bush/Cheney have is really over the top. I daily receive emails critical of Obama either as Islamic or as a black and none of them are complimentary. In fact, they are throwbacks to the racists jokes of the 60s. I actually had a Baptist minister in Ruston tell a joke to his congregation that Martin Luther King preferred Fords and that he “drove a ‘Foul-coon (Falcon).'” And that’s the kind of stuff I now receive daily about Obama.
I’m no fan of his. I find him to be weak and indecisive. But there is just no justification for these kinds of attacks.
For the most part (there have been a couple of exceptions), my readers have not attacked Jindal for his ethnicity and I hope they will continue to refrain from such lowbrow insults that have nothing to do with his ability to govern.
But the vitriol Obama has had to endure because of his perceived birthplace, his skin color and his supposed Islamic beliefs is way over the top. And while there is no way either of us can quantify our argument about the volume of criticism directed at Bush and Obama, I still have to challenge the accuracy of your claim.
Name-calling? Bullying? Just curious: How would you describe your characterization of me as someone with “narrow worldview” who “spews hatred”?
I don’t think there is any doubt whatsoever that radical Christian domionists play an outsized role in our politics or that many folks aligned with the Governor detest science and reject objectively observable facts on the environment and the climate.
Tom, President Obama has not gotten the criticism that President Bush received. Not even a fraction.
Now that is totally clueless. The man has been attacked from the day he went into office. I’m not a big defender of him but have you forgotten what McConnell said? His goal was to make him an one term president?
That was sidwit’s claim, not mine.
@sidwit: He states that the Landrieus saved New Orleans, c’mon really?
Are you totally clueless? Had it not been for Mary in the Senate, quite a bit of the funding this state got from FEMA would not have happened. And, she was greatly responsible for many of those loans to local governments being forgive. You know, those loans that were given because basically their infrastructure was wiped out and they would not have had funding to basically operate.
Here is this comparison (at this time of year when we’re all encouraged to be very generous and very mindful of those whose fortune in life has been less than our own). The policies of Barack Obama, as U.S .President, have been intended to be helpful to particularly working class and lower class Americans. One may argue about whether those policies have been particularly effective or not. A good question for debate. But his intent has been clear. On the other hand, And then if his policies have been particularly hurtful to anyone — again of course a matter for debate — they’ve been hurtful to the upper class. On the other hand, the policies of Piyush Jindal seem to have been particularly aimed to be beneficial to the upper class and have definitely been hurtful to the working class and lower class Louisianians. And yet Piyush Jindal seems set on running around pandering to the ultra-religious among us. Does he not recall, while doing all of this pandering, the part in the Bible about “whatsoever you do to the least…?”
“The America envisioned by Bobby Jindal would not welcome his own parents”. That’s just priceless.
Those who would like to obsess over Obama can and should take note of that he’s going to be U.S. President for only about a couple more years. Those of us in the state can take note of and possibly take comfort with that Piyush Jindal is going to be governor for only about a year and a couple months. Obama is probably not going to be President ever again and then (we hope) Piyush Jindal is not going to be anything about the level of dog catcher ever again. Contrary to what the right wing types may say, the Obama administration has managed to accomplish a few things for the country. Economic recovery seems to be finally picking up some steam while inflation is not an issue. “Obama-care” seems to be becoming more and more settled in and functioning more and more as it was intended, and more and more Republicans are facing the reality which is that what they need to do is focus on fixing the problems with “Obama-care” rather than just look to get rid of it and take the country back to pre-health care reform times. The regime of Piyush JIndal, on the other hand, has done nothing but just wreak damage on this state and only a small minority of state residents would insist otherwise. His political career is most likely about to come to an end and in utter disgrace with absolutely no one taking him seriously.
I know I’m in the minority here and shall be forever, but what flavor Kool Aid are you drinking, it must be good. Mr. O has not gotten the criticism Mr. B got, especially by the press. Mr. O has pretty much gotten a pass up to recently and that’s been minor. I could care less what his skin color is and so should everybody else. I have pulled the lever for Alan Keyes in every republican primary he has been in here in Louisiana. A trained penguin could have gotten us the federal aid we needed in spite of the lack of cooperation from Landrieu and Blanco. Here we have contributors calling Jindal “Piyush” in an obvious ethic swipe. We have Lamar still not accepting the fact that he is a name caller. And can he tell us why the south pole has record amounts of ice? The bottom line is we are not in an economic recovery our debt is too great, we are buying time till the bottom falls out. Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame, there is not one party that can honestly say they are the party of the people and not the corporate world. And please Tom, it’s Merry CHRISTmas!
Piyush is his name. His payroll check from the State of Louisiana is made out to Piyush Jindal, not Bobby. He has never legally changed his name to Bobby so for legal purposes, every document he has signed as governor “Bobby” Jindal could conceivably be considered invalid. There is no legal “Bobby” Jindal so please tell us how it is an ethnic swipe to call him by his legal name.
Lack of cooperation by Landrieu and Blanco? Now who’s drinking Kool Aid? For God’s sake, man, they had to practically force Bush to even do a fly over New Orleans and when he finally visited, all we got was “Heckuva job, Brownie.” You have an extremely short memory if you don’t recall how difficult it was to get the Bush administration in gear on helping New Orleans and one of our own Republican congressmen, Richard Baker, said that God finally did what the government couldn’t in ridding New Orleans of blacks.
As for the record ice at the South Pole, I can only offer this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=north+pole+melting&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=592&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ChCbVMe1BNLzoATNjIHwDA&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQ7Ak
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/the-difference-between-arctic-and-antarctic-sea-ice-120926.htm
I heard an interview about this on the radio. Discovery’s article above gives the same explanation I heard. Makes sense to me.
Just want to address one thing, Sidwit. Mr. O, as you call him, has not gotten the criticism that Mr. B got, because he doesn’t deserve it. Mr. B took this country to war needlessly, lied like Bobby Jindal (the gold standard of liars) to the American people, and let his VP, if not himself personally, order war crimes. Cheney can not even travel to certain nations today because he would risk getting arrested. THAT’s the kind of administration Mr. B ran. Damn right he should get slammed by the media at levels Mr. O would never deserve.
I prefer to use Jindal’s actual name because it’s useful to do so in order to shed light on how he’s not and has never been what he’s tried portray himself as being. If that’s an “ethic swipe” then what has it been when he tried to make such a big deal in his first year in office out of enacting the “gold standard of ethics” package — that applied to everyone except himself and his certain special friends such as the people at CNSI? Edwin Edwards must be having a good laugh somewhere over how such a Goodie Two Shoes Republican could be running the governor’s office just like any of these evil corrupt and power-driven Democrats might have.
Lamar White hit a home run as far as I am concerned, and to those who say that the president hasn’t received as much criticism as GWB, I can only ask, What press? We have a problem in America distinguishing the difference between, news, and opinion, Obama has been hammered, on many issues, Fox pundits cant string half a dozen words together with out negative Obama rhetoric, so much of it isn’t true. Jindal is an unmitigated disaster, and the LSU prayer rally is so predictable and phony, I cant imagine people not seeing through it, but they don’t and he is hoping it takes him to the top of the GOP, how delusional can he be?
Butch, I have really enjoyed your articles over the past few months and could not agree with you more, you are right on as far I am concerned. I guess it goes back to our roots or just how we were brought up and the morals that were instilled in us by our family and educators. I now live in Fl. soI am always excited to get news from La. even if a lot of it is depressing. Merry Christmas. My e mail if you should need it. pnealmcfadden@aol.com. Keep up the good work.
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