Gov. Bobby has a serious problem.
Yeah, we know. We have to narrow that down a bit.
We already know about his ethical and moral problems. But more specifically, he has a major constitutional problem.
We’re not talking about the Louisiana State Constitution here; we’re talking about the U.S. Constitution.
And all you birthers out there who have gotten your innards twisted in knots trying to prove that President Obama is (a) not a U.S. citizen and (b) is a closet Islamist working from within to bring this country down, we have a new assignment for you along those same lines.
And you aren’t going to like it because this time the shoe is on the other foot, i.e. the right (as in right-wing) foot. What follows has been alluded to on several occasions in comments to blogs and online news stories but to our knowledge, no one has written extensively on the subject.
Now pay attention because this gets a little dicey and will require that you follow some logic and everyone knows by now that Gov. Bobby’s faithful followers aren’t very logical. They seem to prefer that he do their thinking for them.
It is common knowledge that Gov. Bobby has aligned himself solidly with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) and Gene Mills of the Family Forum. In fact, one might say that Gov. Bobby is joined at the left hip by one and the right hip by the other. Which hip doesn’t really matter.
In fact, not quite two years ago, Gov. Bobby even appointed Perkins to the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission, though Gov. Bobby’s office, for whatever reason, steadfastly denied the appointment until it finally became the subject of national news. http://cenlamar.com/2013/09/26/bobby-jindal-appoints-unethical-hate-monger-tony-perkins-to-law-enforcement-commission/
About that same time, Gov. Bobby attended a Family Forum banquet and posed with Mills as the two held Mills’s “Gladiator” sword, whatever that is.
And just last month, it was learned that Gov. Bobby will be traveling to Israel next fall as the special guest of Perkins’ FRC. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/bobby_jindal_israel_tony_perki.html
Perkins and Mills, both personally and through their respective organizations, have continued to oppose abortion and to maintain that life begins at conception. That, of course, is their right but it’s important to point out here that Gov. Bobby is right there with them on this issue, even vetoing a bill that would have allowed contracts for surrogate births. In vetoing the bill, he said life is created by God, not a test tube.
In fact, Gov. Bobby has claimed that it is a biological fact that life begins at conception.
And therein lies his knotty little constitutional problem.
Are you keeping up? We hope so, because it’s about to get a bit more difficult to follow.
According to the U.S. Constitution, one must be a natural born citizen of this country to become president. And we concede that Gov. Bobby was indeed born in this country on June 10, 1971.
Without wading into the argument ourselves about just when life begins, it is nevertheless important to note that his parents immigrated to America from India when his mother was three months pregnant—meaning that while he may have been born here, he was actually conceived in India. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/world/americas/22iht-22louisiana.7991675.html?_r=1&
So here’s the logic: If life begins at conception, a claim Gov. Bobby says is supported by biological fact (and remember, he was a biology major at Ivy League Brown University), and if he was conceived in India, then he would have to necessarily be considered a native of India and therefore constitutionally disqualified from seeking the U.S. presidency.
We know that’s a bitter pill for him and Timmy Teepell to swallow, but the facts are the facts—and they are supported by no less than biological science, according to none other than Gov. Bobby himself.
So, the way we see it, he’s in something of a pickle. He has boxed himself in, outsmarted himself, as it were. Consequently, he now has no choice other than to announce that he not only will not, but cannot, seek the Republican nomination for president because of that pesky little constitutional prohibition.
We are certain that a man of his unimpeachable ethics and high moral character would never wish to ascend to the presidency on the mere technicality that he was born in this country when it must be his inevitable conviction that his life began at conception—in India.
As an added twist to the plot, let’s consider the question of religion.
Some of Obama’s detractors, and there are many (and we’re not exactly fans either, for that matter), have tossed out broad hints that he may just be a secret Islamic agent in disguise with the intent of bringing down this country on behalf of his Islamic brotherhood.
But wait! Isn’t he a Baptist? No matter. That’s just his cover.
Well, then, what about Gov. Bobby?
That’s not fair, his supporters (mostly limited to his staffers by now) might protest. Everyone knows he is a devout Catholic. Why, by his own admission, he even performed an exorcism while a student at Brown.
And what about all those visits to the north Louisiana Protestant churches where he handed out those giant federal checks to communities during his first term?
Pretty clever, eh? Pose as a good Catholic, conduct an exorcism and even write a paper about it later like it was the real deal and then suck up to the Baptists just to support your cover. Quite the chameleon. But deep down, he could be a Hindu—like his parents. Why, his parents could have been dispatched to this country by the Hindu hierarchy with the express intent of grooming him for the presidency just so he could then dismantle the entire country in the same manner that he has destroyed Louisiana’s economy, higher education and health care and then hand the entire country over to India.
We have to be completely honest, however, and admit that scenario is not only lame, but downright ludicrous. Offensive? Maybe. Politically incorrect? Most definitely.
Frankly, we much prefer the life at conception disqualification theory. It smacks of just enough hypocrisy to fit Gov. Bobby like a glove.
Plus, if it gains traction, Timmy Teepell might even actually find it necessary to go out into the private sector and work for a living like the rest of us.
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Does it also mean that he can be deported since he is an Indian citizen? I mean it seems only right.
LOL! Good one.
I actually believe that Gov. Bobby is an anchor baby.
I don’t think your scenario is ludicrous. He is working for someone and it’s not the citizens of LA. He acts like a dictator. Imagine if he gained more power. Oh, you did. One has to ask, why does he want to be the face of the government he obsessively criticizes? If I snorted some Koch maybe it would all be clear to me.
Far fetched? Not at all. Vitter and the “Send Them All Back To Mexico” crowd are vocal in their claim that illegal immigrants are being sponsored by the Democrats so that when they become of voting age they will be beholden to the Democrats and give them their vote. So yep, it’s clear to me. Jindal is a state supported Indian Hindu subversive sent here to undermine America from within. And I know this is true because Grover Norquist said as much when he was secretly recorded supporting the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to destroy America from within. And just who made that claim? None other than Glen Beck. So if Glen Beck says that Grover Norquist is crazy and out to destroy America and Jindal is totally committed to carrying out Norquist’s plan, how can the Far Right support Jindal and his programs? Now answer that little riddle.
This web does get tangled.
It doesn’t matter. Even if Jindal were conceived on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and born on the front lawn of the White House, he STILL is not going to be president.
No matter if if he is legeal,are not, we know for sure he has almost single handedly destroyed our state!
What is his last approval rating?
LMAO AT jindal
27 percent.
Well crafted piece of work indeed Mr. Tom!
If BJ felt a majority of voters supported it, he would scream to the rafters about women having the firm right to be provided with abortions on demand, that gays should be permitted to marry anywhere in the U. S. and it be recognized anywhere else in the U. S. and that unemployed folk should obtain $4,000 a month incentives to remain out of the workforce to artificially drive up union wages for those who may wish to voluntarily reject the $4.000 incentive and be an active part of the workforce. Bottom line: BJ has no true convictions. He just vascilates to the existing-popular position on issues in a feeble effort to boost his popularity. Time for him to gradually fade into the sunset never again to be remembered fondly by LA voters.
Right. If the political winds were such that Jindal thought he could benefit by being pro-choice, he would drop the prayer rallies in a heartbeat and start singing the praises of Planned Parenthood before the day is out.
Bobby J indal is a phony, he will change colors faster than a Chameleon if it means furthering his political career. However, until our electorate get smarter and vote for people who have smart common sense solutions instead of initial, kneejerk solutions and who hates the president more or is more Godly, blah, blah, blah, we will continue to spiral into the abyss. BJ is one of the many who has made a good living for decades slurping from the very trough he constantly bad mouths and making promises of improvement which never happen.
I dislike Mr. Jindal and can’t wait for him to move away and leave us alone. That said, are you sure you went to Tech? Did you go to Northeast and steal a Tech diploma? Just joking there Tom. Life begins at conception and then you are “born” into this crazy world. And you’re issued a “birth” certificate not a conception certificate. Our traveling governor was “born” in the US. He may have been conceived on Mars for all we know, but he was born in the US. Now you can call me names, but life begins at conception. A human being starts growing at that moment when the sperm hits the egg. Now this mass of tissues, sometimes referred to as a fetus, is not a giraffe nor is it a basketball. It is a growing baby girl or boy. Kill the child through the right of abortion, but it’s not a mass of tissues, it’s a human being. If you were to go steal some bald eagle eggs and fry up with some bacon, you would be put in jail. Say what you want, call us names if you must. But abortion kills a human being.
Parody. Recognize it for what it was–parody. I wasn’t taking a stand for or against abortion. I was making a tongue-in-cheek point. If you want to take it a step further, the actual laws governing eligibility for the presidency are much more vague than I made them appear. You can, in fact, be born out of the country and still qualify for president as with Rick Perry (Mexico) and Ted Cruz (Canada) so long as one or more of your parents is a citizen. The lesson here is not to be so literal.
I really have no problem with allowing someone who wasn’t born in the U.S. run for President — as long as they’re a citizen. The issue really should never be whether or not a person was born in the U.S.,and those who want to raise a fuss about Obama’s supposed alien status are just being very silly. What the issue should be is whether someone should or should not be president based strictly on their abilities and merits as those relate to the job duties.
A side issue is that a general rule in Louisiana is You Kill It You Eat it (Hence gumbos made out of interesting wildlife) — but hey it is a Capital Punishment state! Hmmmmm.
Ever since I saw that picture, I can’t get Randy Newman’s “A Wedding in Cherokee County” out of my mind, particularly these lines:
“She will laugh at my mighty sword
She will laugh at my mighty sword
Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
Lord, help me if you will…”
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