Will Revelations About Bobby Jindal's Weird Secret Past Destroy His Political Career?

My wife, whose parents came from India although she was born here in America and is Christian, hates the guts of that son of a gun. She once told me that if Bobby Jindal were to be prime minister of India, the country would collapse in a heart beat. Looking at the way Jindal's screwing up the poor and middle class in LA, I'd shudder at the thought of running India and the US further into the ground.

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I posted this on another article, but I want to know if someone has an answer:

I want to know if anyone is going to call Jindal out on the BS he spewed about the "reforms" that have taken place in New Orleans and Louisiana. Kline exposes the BS of free reign capitalism in The Shock Doctrine and exposes what has happened in the wake of Katrina to New Orleans schools--they are failing!!!! Not only that, but this unfettered market has driven out many of the people who used to live there to replace them with a new "class" of people. This reform came at the exclusion of the people who lost so much. PLEASE someone who is more knowledgeable than me pick up on this!

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That horrible debut on the national stage with a speech directed at elementary school students will distroy his political career like the Couric interviews tripped up Palin.

I keep reading that he is a master of policy details. Not last night. That speech rivaled the best (or worst) from W.

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What bothers me is his conservative philosophy and defense of every discredited Republican fiscal policy. That must remain the issue. Exorcism doesn't bother me, for heaven's sake, HE'S FROM LOUISIANA!

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Go for it, chumps. "They" certainly did.

I'm doing ok. You sh*theads can argue yourselves and your perceived "opponents" to death on either side of the spiral down the toilet bowl.

Damn it. I thought so much better of the average person--perhaps these goons are anomalies.

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And by demons, I mean the superstitious, barbaric, anti-scientific Republicans who want to drag our country--and the world--back into the Dark Ages. Can we get an exorcist in the House?

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He must be good! He's on the liberal Radar. They're doing a hit job on him similar to the one they did on Palin.

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They self destruct on their own. We progressives can just sit back and laugh at the clowns trip over one another.

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Who cares? So he lived in America and was mesmerized by a TV show. And that doesn't happen to anyone else?

Everyone's gotta have a name. He decided he liked "Bobby".

BHFD.

As for the Christian thing, that was certainly a big "if" he decided to hang his hat on.

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Is it just me or does this guy have really creepy eyes.

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I have to admit, I was impressed by the first five minutes of his speech. I thought that perhaps the Republicans were actually turning around, Jindal was so conciliatory. But that was before he segued into the failed treasonous policies of the Republican Party we know so well. Oh, well, he nailed himself as another Republican moron.

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Try 2000--that's how much older the Sumerian tablets that contain such classics as the Epic of Gilgamesh are. And, no surprise, those same stories are found in the Bible...

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As a sane rational Freethinker, Atheist, whatever you want to call me, I can see that religion is a gateway to psychosis. Is it just me but does anyone else wonder why the more religious a culture is, the more violent it is.

Currently there’s a documentary being run called “Right America, Felling Wronged.” As a sane rational person I was squirming all the time I was watching it. I saw deeply disturbed racist, xenophobic human beings who are well armed. Their main concerns were guns and abortion and obsession with controlling other people’s sex lives. Isn’t it time, in this time of economic hardship, that we started taxing churches? They have a lot of money and they seem to cause more harm than good, witness the age when religion ruled the world, we called it the Dark Ages.

It is religion that is largely responsible for the crisis currently facing the world. It is Fundamentalist religionists that seem like they’re responsible for current situation, whether it be Fundamentalist Christians, Muslims or Jews. The Abrahamic faiths are a scourge to the planet. When are we going to grow up and stop believing in this stupid shit?

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Why does that sound so familiar?

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To address the headline, I don't think it will derail his career. It should, but it may not. There are people who look upon extreme fanatical religion favorably. Doesn't matter if he has held seances, exorcisms, and claimed to have met the devil face-to-face. Because as long as he hates gay people, he's their guy.

And this guy was a Rhodes Scholar? Wow. I'd like to see him "talk down" Rachel Maddow! Guess who'll win?

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Goofy is as goofy does makes no difference the race, sex, age, or economic classification. Rindal was totally creepy with his fake Dixie accent and sing-song delivery. So why isn't anyone just saying that? His fake smile and fake message about Americans can "just do anything" made me ask an - oh really? Most people I know can't sell their homes, get a line of credit, or buy a car. What planet is this guy on? Let's just call it what it is ... Goofyland.

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As much as I detest Jindal and hope for his political downfall, I'm offended by this article. Yes, he's a bit flaky, but that's not a crime or a disqualification from office. His religion is his business; the real problem is that he's trying to make it everyone's business by codifying it in our laws. I'm far more concerned about his support for the GOP's disastrous economic wierdness than his taste for exorcism, or a candidate's embrace of necromancy (Hillary Clinton), soothsayers (Ron and Nancy Reagan), infidelity (Bill Clinton) or other idiosyncrasies.

We become like the conservatives when we overreach in this way. There are plenty of real issues on which to make a case against Jindal, Palin and their ilk without slinging mud like a tabloid.

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WHO IN THE HELL CARES ABOUT BOBBY JINDAL!?!?

There is no real "argument" or opposition here.

The Dems control The Executive AND the Legislative branches.

They have complete power to determine policy.

But the TV shows you Bobby Jindal and guides you to percieving a political spilt and you just swallow it all up!

PATHETIC.

-matti.

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Guys--he's a Republican. He cannot possibly have a political career.

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Don't worry folks! Jindal will never make it. Why? Because he does not fulfill the the most important prequalification requirement which is: GOP shall not promote, protect and propel any contender for the President's Office WHO has BRAINS! It is also mandatory that such a contender prove this on his/her forehead by sporting: Empty--For Rent! Exclusively for Corporations and Lobbies! Palin definitely qualifies and may be Terminator I & II too but many at GOP have lately been discovering that his "upper chamber" is not that "empty", someone like Gipper!

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Would be really interesting to hear what she has to say.

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What I find most agregious about his claims of being able to get LA back on track is the fact that a good portion of the population has mifrated to other states and have not returned because the place is still trying to rebuild.
I heard at one point the 'new' levies were found to be hollow and stuffed with newspapers!
Why does the 9th ward still look like a battle zone? What about all these stories of vigilantism and outright murder following Katrina. Weren't there just some shootings During Fat Tuesday?
Baton Rouge may be looking great from his Front door, but it sounds like NOLA is still in dire straits.Besides driving through the State, poverty is still a major issue.Poverty is poverty whether it's in a burned out city or in a shack on the bayou.
As for his 'Exorcism' and conversion- proves to me he'll Buy anything, do anything to get what he wants..Like Down that Gals pants!

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There must be other “secrets” in Jindal's dark past.

Which underscores the theory that you MUST be nuts to embrace the Republican philosophy in today’s economic times!

Take the Republican philosophy to its final conclusion: In order to maximize corporate profit, all labor would be so minimally compensated that workers would practically be slaves. All wealth would be inherited, as it would not be taxed. Elections would be perfunctory since the outcome would already be determined.

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I was from Louisiana until I left the country a few years ago.

As a rule, we elect strange people to political office. Everyone knows that.

I am not sure why this happens. In general we have a taste for the bizarre.

But even by Louisiana standards, Jindal is considered locally as a freak.

Now the whole country has had a glimpse of this guy and does not like what it sees.

He reminds me of Ganesha--the elephant-headed Hindu deity. Jindal has grafted onto his slender torso the head of the Republican elephant. The result for Jindal, unlike the lucky and benevolent Ganesha, was the creation of a monster: he patched together a self-created accent, a conservative, anti Satanic Catholic religion, absurd Republican political dogmas on top of a manic administrative wonkishness.

The result is sad, but also scary. My son told me that Louisianans consider him a "freakazoid!" If this is the view of people in Louisiana who relish the odd, look out America.

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Jindal fits perfectly into the Repblican mold. He has no critical-thinking skills and rejects his own culture in favor of Disneyland values. If Jindal, Palin or Romney get the nomination for prez in 2012, it will be an easy victory for Democrats! A new generation of young wing-nut wackos. Bring 'em on!

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Jindahl's belief in exorcism differs little from Palin's. If anything it would split the "R" hardcore primary vote between those who wouldn't vote for a woman and those who wouldn't vote for a non-white. They showed they're not too happy with Mitt and his salamanders either.

I wonder too if Jindahl is one of those Opus Dei Catholics who think that women shouldn't become priests, that mass should be said in Latin and a bit of self-flagellation is good for the soul? Brownback was one of that bunch and, like Palin, didn't believe in evolution either.

Since the Republicans are striving for that "big tent," one also wonders if they could get a proponent of clitorectomies and/or stoning of adultresses some delegates in the primaries?

To the poster who thought religion should be a personal thing and not a subject of political debate, you'll recall that the recent "R" candidates, including the "too secular" McCain, flocked to suck up to some of the most odious exponents of anti-Semitism including fundy dollar-grabbers Rod Parsley and John Hagee, and they and theirs were responsible for endless airings of clips from Jeremiah Wright's greatest hits.

In my "voting lifetime" it was the "R"s who wrote the playbook, starting with attacks on JFK. I'm sure if Obama had chosen Feinstein for his V.P., we would have heard murmurs about the drinking of sacrificial blood of Christian babies and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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In all fairness, when I was in California, there where hordes of people who dabbled in satanic cults. I was harassed by one while working at a major corporation whose name would be immediately recognizable. And these people were very intellectually sophisticated and well educated. Many were quite liberal. Some caved in simply because of peer pressure. Now I don't believe in this baloney and thought these folks were self-deluded. I know very little about Jindal. But if we are going to dismiss people simply because of their belief in the paranormal, that is going to be a very long list. Only difference is he is open, while the people I mentioned are complete hypocrites and will even publicly ridicule someone who claims to believe in evil.

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A known kook and an airhead for the next republican ticket!
Maybe after that they can run Rush and have a completely incompetent drooling John McCain run as VP!

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Isn't that considered a plus by the Republican base? That and the belief that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago?

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The Brady Bunch !!??? I'd have thought Scooby Do or the Jetsons. No!, wait,.. I've got it!...My Favorite Martian !

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I cast you out Satan, in the name of the Father, the son, which is Jesus, aqnd the Holy Ghost which is Mahakali ... oops!

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Coming to teach in Louisiana from Florida was a genuine culture shock. This state voted 80% to 20% against gay marriage which means that there are only about 20% decent citizens in this state.

The first year my family and I were here, two brothers argued over how to carve the Thanksgiving turkey. One brother shot to death the other brother.

I have never before seen in the news so many cases of child rape, incest, murder, and assault. Louisiana leads the other states in murder and rape, and in children living in poverty.

The tax burden on the wealthy is the lowest of all 50 states, and they live their life of luxury amid the worst poverty imaginable (for the United States). Katrina stripped away that thin veneer of ignorance. The world saw and understood Louisiana and the United States for the first time.

Jindal is a product of Louisiana.

Just how desperate are these Republicans?

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He gave an unimaginatively stale rebuttal speech the other night which included his refusal to accept the aid money because it was "wasteful". It was, to him, wasteful because it included 7 billion dollars to extend unemployment insurance benefits to help people in his state. He's a true Rethug!

Louisiana, you voted for this Repug. So you get what you deserve.

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Has anyone looked into his appearance? It seems as if his eyes are to round to be normal. If this is what THEY have to put up against OBAMA then there is no hope for gop's

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That's the best that the Republican party has -- Jindal, Palin and Romney? They are really lost and in the desert.

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As a resident of Louisiana who never voted for Jindal, nor any Republican for that matter, I think that Jindal's biggest drawback is his unquestioning acceptance of dogma. Whether it's Right Wing idealogy or Roman Catholic theology, a person who accepts such things unquestioningly is unfit to lead because they lack the ability to think critically. Both Jindal and Sarah Palin suffer from this malady. If this it the best that the GOP can come up with, they have ceased to be a force to be reckoned with and it is wonderful news for us all.

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& he's been talking about Bobby 'The Exorcist' Jindal since it was discussed in TPM during the McCain 'VP Scramble'
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To quote Jon Stewart (The Daily Show): Governor Jindal claims he will refuse federal Bail-out Money of $3.8 Billion dollars. He will only accept $3.77 billion dollars of that money.

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I'm disappointed in Alternet for running this article. It's just the kind of smear campaign that progressives endured from the far right. Does anything in the article have a bearing on the way Bobby Jindal has been governing LA? Jindal should be judged, not on his childhood or adolescence, but on his present performance. Let's put an end to the divisiveness and smearing and get on with the business of restoring our country to its integrity and social well-being. Judge our elected officials on their contributions or their obstructions to this restoration.

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For those claiming that Jindal "must be good" and stating that the Democrats must be "scared of him," are you serious? Republicans are also speaking out against Jindal. Does it ever occur to people like you, that it isn't a "hit job," but possibly the truth and true concern being expressed, for what people with ideological, archaic beliefs can do to denigrate our society? Change, growth and advancement are slow to evolve, but can disappear and decline at a much faster rate...the old "one step forward, two back" analogy comes to mind.

When are the hard core, GOP diehards going to realize that the majority of their fellow citizens are tired of this antiquated thinking and of fanatical religious beliefs being mixed with our government policy and influencing who and how we elect those who run our nation?

We have been witness to decades of GOP, ideological,"ultra-conservative" and evangelical control. Our current desperate financial situation, with a near failing infrastructure is testament to it. Do some of you realize the ramifications of allowing the same failed thinking and policies to run an even longer course? If we were thriving and evolving, I could surely see the fixation and may well agree with it, but we are not. We are dying as a nation and dying quickly. The majority of our citizens suffer or live meager existences, just getting by, while a few thousand people (mainly GOP affiliated) have redistributed almost ALL of America's wealth into their own coffers ... and of course they don't want to lose their easily gained wealth. How much will some of you need to see and feel before you disallow the abuse and brainwashing that you have become a victim of?

They think of you as small minded, stupid pawns. They use you as such and you sit back, smiling and inviting them to bring on more. THAT is absurd and if it were not so dangerous for the rest of us, I would feel sorry for those of you who support and encourage the continued raping of this nation!

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Old residents of Duval County, FL just might recall the political fight where one of the most corrupt mayors in their mendacious history was fighting a losing primary battle against a quality Democrat.

Mr. Incumbent went from the office to a small, poor-white Baptist church and "got saved" three weeks before the primary.

Didn't matter that he was seen drunk (again). on the golf course at the second-tier country club he frequented, after his opportune salvation.

His wife shot him in the knee after catching him with another woman.

None of this mattered. He was saved, and his re-election was assured.

Didn't AlterNet run the article on Rev. Jackson's brother, Blagojevich, and the Indian community in Chicago? Christian baptism may have been recommended as an election guarantor. Skeptical of Christianity as I am, I would not ever vote for a religion which recommends suttee and dowry murders.

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I only watched part of Jindal's speech because it was rather embarrassing to see him talking to Americans as if we are all in Head Start. (Jon Stewart did a great comparison of Jindal's opening with Mr. Rogers - who actually was talking to preschoolers.) There was an affected psuedo-gentleness to his manner that bordered on being offensive.

Jindal's words were shallow and his delivery was ingratiating. It was as if he was saying, "Now, now, all you children who watched Mr. Obama. You don't REALLY believe all that silliness. Don't forget, we are Americans, and Americans don't need help from the big, bad government."

Jindal's religious views might not be the main issue, as several people have pointed out, but they certainly would inform his policies. I think there are many who might defend his right to believe in exorcism and whatever loopy version of Christianity he follows, but what if he really and truly believed, for example, in the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the actual existence of the ancient Roman gods and worshipped them? And if he declared himself to be an Atheist or Agnostic, does anyone think the regressives would be lecturing us on the value of tolerance?

Christianity is only different from other religions because it's so wide-spread and accepted by the mainstream. Its dogma is no more believable than that of any mythology that came before.

So the GOP (Geriatric Obstructionist Propagandists) have Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney. OH. MY. GOD. Out of millions of Republicans, many of whom are undoubtedly accomplished and (possibly) intelligent, this is the best they can do??? A smarmy, goofy, condescending exorcist; a moose hunting, cutesy, you-betcha hockey mom who can barely speak English; and a stiff, hypocritical, smirky cardboard cutout - all of whom are religious nutjobs.

To paraphrase (I believe) John Stuart Mills: Not all Republicans are stupid, but most stupid people are Republicans.

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We need to be silent as liberals or democrats as these 3 move forward as the potential future of the republican party.. what could be better than that, to spell an end to repubican/fascism/neoconservativeism as these three are certainly capable of nailing shut any hope for a revival of a republican administration for the next generation or two..

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People change. People do things for strange reasons. Many people go through religious phases in their lives. People learn from their experiences and become more empathetic/sympathetic.
So what if he changed his name and religion.

Lets see what he does compared to what he says.

The author must have gotten this job after the weekly world news shut its doors.
Looking for a new bat boy?

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I'm sorry, someone who believes in physical confrontations with demons who have taken control of a human being is simply not, imho, qualified to hold ANY political office. Spirituality is one thing, but believing in supernatural entities that can inhabit another's body and control it is too far gone for me. This person has real problems distinguishing reality from something else, and we've had enough of republican fantasy land.

I'll note that this is not based on innuendo or rumors-it is from a piece that Jindal himself wrote ("...In Mr. Jindal’s case, however, the facts are clear. Mr. Jindal wrote the story himself, and when he was a Rhodes Scholar, his story, “Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare,” was published in the December 1994 edition of the New Oxford Review").

So, lets not hear anymore bs about hit pieces, smear tactics or ad hominem attacks. This information is directly relevant to Jindal's ability to make decisions, and he's incriminated himself.

It's sad this is the best the repubs can do.

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so what if bobby jindal CHOSE the name "bobby" as a FOUR YEAR OLD watching the brady bunch...(do you realize how many parents choose to name their babies after soap opera characters??)...MOST of the time a person does not choose their name - their parents do...and after the treatment obama got regarding HIS name at the hands of conservatives/republicans it's really disgusting to see the liberals/democrats doing the same thing to jindal. furthermore, it used to be quite common for immigrants with "weird" names to take more traditional american/western sounding names...by discrediting jindal's name you discredit the other more important criticisms of the governor.

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Another brilliant expose.

I could only tolerate his "speech" via Jon Stewart because it was so alternately offensive and vapid. All I kept thinking was, who the fuck is this guy?! Clearly the GOP is slumming at the bottom of their barrel of late.

Fine with me. But I still live for the day when even a total fundamentalist lunatic gets zero street cred as a politician. We need level heads not magical fuckups like this boob.

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James A. Swanson, Los Altos, CA
“The Bush League of Nations” [for FREE download of entire $25.95 book]

The hardcore Religious Reich will believe anything they want to be true—and disbelieve any facts that inconveniently get in the way.

Nevertheless, let’s pray that Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin and the rest of the GOP saviors continue to spout the same old GOP nostrums that drove America off the cliff.

This will cause more and more Americans to realize the obvious—that America’s government, like America’s military and America’s financial system, cannot be entrusted to GOP crooks, nitwits and mercenaries.

From Reagan’s presidency through that of Bush II, the GOP used government power to create the Second Gilded Age in America, at the expense of common men and women.

Give trillions of dollars to the Super Rich and Big Business. Run up multiple enormous unsustainable deficits and debts.

Bankrupt America both morally and financially. Plant the seeds for the GOP Great Depression II.

Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.

Screw generations of the unborn by making them pay for everything. Take the money and run.

You can find this and much more in The Bush League of Nations: The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed – the GOP’s War on Iraq and America, by James A. Swanson (2008, published by CreateSpace Publishing, 448 pages).

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I ask for nothing in return, except that you consider using it as a resource to help restore and build America.

Jim Swanson, Los Altos, CA
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As much as I like a good smear, let's concentrate on things like this guy's policies and that awful, condescending speech. What a freakin' douchebag! Why do Americans tolerate being spoken to like they're small children by smug little stoats like this guy and "fake honorable really an ass-kissing toady" McCain? Obama talks to us like we're adults. Duh, right wing. Grab a ride on the clue bus.

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Is it not interesting that jindal and palin both derided government money that is/was being spent on scientific studies.
They both went out of their way to choose a science program to ridicule.
With that said, both governors have a similar belief in creationism/young earth story about the beginnings of our universe.
Should these governors be tapped by the republicans for higher office? Does their ridicule of science and things scientific make them unfit to hold higher office?
Both say their religion is very important to them. Can we as Americans be assured that their religious beliefs will not interfere with our ability to protect ourselves, increase our medical knowledge and compete in the world in general in the science arena?
I don’t think these seemingly innocuous statement should be taken lightly by these supposed front runners of the republican party.

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After Barrack speech I wanted to see the new Repub "super star". When he came on I could hear the TV but was not watching it. I thought I was listening to an audio book. No emotion at all. All I learned is he can read a tele-promter.

Thanks GOP for making helping elect Obama for another 4 years.

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When they say she collapsed on the floor and went into convulsions, what they mean is that a bunch of people grabbed her and held her down and she struggled. Yeah, she cursed at them, and refused to do what they demanded. After they let her up, she demanded to know just what they thought they were doing. I'v e seen enough of these to know how it works.

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We don't need to do this sort of thing. Personally, I feel pretty much all religion is "wierd", requiring a suspension of disbelief that I can't summon. But I have no problem with those whose faith is greater than mine. Charasmatic Christians have been talking in tongues, exorcising demons, and floppping to the floor for for all of my adult life. I don't get it, but it seems to give them comfort and strength. It hurts no one. Making fun of these practices is unnecessary and repugnant.

There's plenty about Mr Jindal that we can find fault with. His religious beliefs ought to be left alone. Should he want to turn his beliefs into policy or law, we should attack the policies and the laws. I doubt his participation in an exorcism, many years ago, will have any real impact on the way he might govern.

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His speech was so sickening and condescending I had to turn it off. I was afraid I'd end up puking. He is a disgrace to the Indian people, his parents, his state and his party.

To deprive such a poor state of economic help is unconscienable (sp?) All of those Rethug governors are unconscienable in denying the poor the assistance they so desperately need and those needing unemployment benefits. It's no mistake the Rethuhs call the poor and elderly "useless eaters." It's evident in their political ideology and part of how they operate. They are common trash and sooner or later the poor will uprise against them..let's face it, there are a lot more of us than them. Perpetrating class war will only end up biting them in the ass.

So, how does this guy figure he can be President anyway. Yes, he was born here but to non citizens....who had immigrated here and became citizens later.

:ouisiana is a shit state who has always had corrupt politicians...can you say Huey Long? It's a very poor state which like other rethug states keeps their citizens stupid (uneducated) so they don't know any better and forces them into a life of crime to survive. Hope he plans to build more prisons since he is making them even poorer. .

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Nothing prepares a Republican politician for the National stage like a good old fashioned Exorcism, nothing.

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and the Repigs are full of them. A ticket that would feature this guy and Palin would have us back in the Dark Ages...exactly like the rich plutocrats would like us to be. Superstition and the denial of science will be the end of us all!

The corporatocracy WANTS to keep the rest of us ignorant and fearful. It worked just fine and dandy for them the last eight years, as we have seen. They'll do anything to keep things just the way they were under Bush. Obama had better watch his back. They're gonna sik these Holy Rollers (most of whom are white supremists anyway)on him sooner or later!

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before I returned to my native state...Jingle Jangle Jindal was running his first campaign for Governor...I knew little of him, but was most agast with his "Bobby" name, for this was a traditional "bubba" name...This "bubba" came from southern dialect in pronunciation of their siblings, and older protector "brother/bubba" I am going to tell "bubba" on you, and he gonna whup/whip your ask/ass.

I have been wandering what his birth name was, and am most grateful that his "legal" name has been exposed...As I have spoken to many people, the saints tired of me given them a bad name, insisted that I used my birth name, with is not JOHN, PETER, PAUL....or even MARY...

This man is an opportunist, I have known many individuals from various parts of the world, and never knew one of them passing off as BUBBA...somewhere, he does not except his own being...this is dangerous...self love is the greatest...being hindu is just as great as being budda, islam, christian, jewish...or as myself pagen...pagen...pagen...

No news media has question his "legal" name, have futhered his campaign of ill truth...thanks...

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Jindal is not playing with a full deck. In fact, it is worse than that. He is a dangerous lunatic. At least he shares this exorcism b.s. with Palin: remember those videos of her with the African-American witch doctor who was casting out evil spirits in her fundamentalist loony church? All of the GOP front runners for 2012 are dangerous lunatics, like that crypto-racist Mormon suit, Romney; the ex-Baptist Huckabee, who wants to impose a Christian interpretation on the Constitution, and Palin, who inquired whether she could remove offensive books from an Alaskan library. You'd think none of them ever heard of the doctrine of separation of church and state.

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If Jindal is the best the Repubicans have to offer, besides the Appalling Palin and the Risky Romney, they are a dead and gone party. PLEASE LET US PROMOTE A THIRD PARTY. Nader, and/or the Green Party/ Independents/Liberatarians need not apply, where are you in-between elections? Do you go back in your holes for four years? This Republican vs. Democratic thing has been fun but why can't other parties emerge and be supported so we don't speak like there is only night and day in the clock of life and politics.

I LOVE MY NEW PRESIDENT BARAK OBAMA!!! Thank you Gods and Goddesses for blessing America. The rest of the world deserves blessings too after such an abusive treatment from the last eight years of an imperial and despotic USA, Bush/Cheney administration. (We've sinned and need to atone and our penance is complete TRUTH.)
PROSECUTE BUSH FOR MURDER. Support Vincent Bugliosi and read " The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder."

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As he walked up into the room to speak he reminded me of Mister Rogers. He should have taken off his coat, put it in the closet, and put on his sweater and house shoes.

I picked up a personally defensive vibe. He didn't kill those thousand people in New Orleans, no, it was the Bush Administration, he was just an innocent Congressperson. He was doing everything he could (actually the Democrat was doing all the work) to get those small rescue boats into New Orleans while the Navy sat around and the National Guard prevented starving and dehydrated people from walking out of New Orleans over the freeway bridge.

He also defended his personal self against being tainted by Louisiana's legendary corruption, which was rivaled only by inside the beltway during the Bush years.

Lost in the shuffle was the idea that the entire Republican Party was responding to the President's greatest call for national change in 50 years. This was some guy's personal paid political ad. Right, good luck with that, kid.

I betcha (real social conservatives don't bet) the social conservatives coalesce around Huckabee in 2012.

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Regarding the "sulfuric" scents hovered over Susan everywhere she went.

I might suggest Beano or GasX. Both are better solutions to that problem than exorcism. Although exercise and eating right might also help.

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Please dont let the world come to an end before we see---The Palin-Jindal ticket. Ill pay good money to see that.

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Although I'm an atheist, I still find the anti-religion aspect of this article troubling. Isn't the freedom to believe in any religion one of the founding precepts of this nation?

As an atheist, I find all religious ceremonies incredulous, but I would never use it in humor, or against anyone. This is in bad taste.

Besides, the jerk was in college when the exorcist incident happened. Hasn't everyone had some embarassing incident in collage, some youthful folly of some kind or other?

I just think that people should be criticised for their political philosophies, or their actions, not for their personal beliefs. Certainly there's enough to criticise the jerk about as pertains his anti-emphatic attitude concerning the unemployed in his state, without dragging crap like this in.

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Jindal has just as much a right as Obama. In fact maybe even more...at least Jindal is open and honest, unlike Obama was and still is not honest about his birthplace and religious background..Once a Muslim...ALWAYS a Muslim..that's OBAMA...

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Not YET.

Really, people who live in glass houses should never be so stupid as to be the first to throw stones.

Your idol just might end up being the cover of Globe magazine...

Oh wait, he already IS.

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