Liberty and Justice for All!

Even though Bobby Jindal vowed to stay out of the legislative leader selection, an article in the advocate states that State Sen. Joel Chaisson II is Bobby Jindal’s choice. Jindal claims that his holding a press conference to announce this is not an example of him backing out of that vow. However, methinks Jindal doth protest too much. I guess he thinks we are all to stupid to think that he would not lie.

I, for one, am not surprised that Bobby Jindal would say one thing and do another.

I also find  this picture interesting. Jindal’s face seems to say “thats right, you are my choice, do my bidding…. and you better say the right thing or else”.

(Cross-posted at jindalisbad.com)

Over on jindalisbad.com, I complained about the T-P and their lack of fact checking on Bobby Jindal. I think I know why they failed to check the facts on our Governor-elect.

Apparently, the T-P was so concerned with getting Al Copeland’s divorce records that they could not be bothered to do some investigative reporting on the claims made by the Bobby Jindal campaign for Governor of Louisiana. And who can really blame them? When I think of the important issues that face Louisiana, everyone must agree that none are more important than finding out exactly why Al Copeland got a divorce. Why worry about the problems of sediment when we can read about the problems of Copeland’s divorce settlement? Why worry about coastal instability when we can discuss spousal infidelity? Raising our levees? Forget that! We need to discuss how Al Copeland’s kids will be raised!

This just proves why I refer to our major newspaper as T-P.

I tend to not like to insult people when discussing what they say. But in Jeff Sadow’s recent apologia for Bobby Jindal, he freely calls someone else a “dummy” and a “moron” so far be it from me to point out when the pot calls the kettle black.

See, Jeff Sadow did not like when someone stated that the Republican Party was “historically a white-only party” and that “Jindal may have cornered the Mother Teresa vote, but Mahatma Gandhi certainly would have opposed him on principle.”

What makes Sadow an idiot is this:

Second, this dummy obviously needs a history lesson. The Republican Party started as an organized abolitionist movement that branched out into electoral politics just prior to the Civil War. In fact, its rise to prominence triggered the Civil War, among other causes, as southern Democrats believed the new party would be able to roll back slavery of blacks. After the Civil War, many blacks were elected as Republicans both at the state and national level – until Democrats began to find ways to prevent them from even participating in politics in the south. Currently dozens of blacks serve as GOP elected officials. If anything, it’s been Democrats who for so long (and maintained this by law) were “historically whites-only.”

So let me get this straight, Jeff Sadow jumps from the Republican Party when it was the “Party of Lincoln” and jumps all the way up to today to point out the “dozens” of black people who serve as elected Republicans?

He must forget that Democrats pushed for civil rights, with the exceptions of the Southern Democrats that became “Dixiecrats” (like Strom Thurmond).

He must forget that those Dixiecrats later found a home within the Republican party, who used their “southern strategy” to get votes from those racist white voters.

He also is trying to make those “dozens” seem like a lot. However, he clearly forgets the hundreds and hundreds of elected Democrats who are Black.

So I find it hard to believe that he would try to give a history lesson to some “dummy” when he leaves out about 100 years of history and ignores the super-majority of elected leaders who are Black. But this is where Jeff Sadow shows is sheer ignorance.

The left retains power in this country only because it can hornswoggle non-whites into thinking it can help them, by a strategy of disinformation and disempowerment of them.

Basically, Sadow is saying that non-whites are too stupid to realize that the mean evil Democrats are taking advantage of them. In reallity, minorities are smart because they see which party pushes for equality and which party fights equality. They see that the Democrats fight discrimination and the Republians seek to get government out of protecting minorities. Basically, they know who their friends are and the Republican party is not the friend of minorities when they would pander to racists.

Many Republicans will respond by saying “but look at Condi, she is black”. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the same thing as those who point out “but some of my friends are black”. Democrats don’t need to elevate individuals to show that they are supportive of minorities.

            Today, Walter Boasso decided to run for Governor of Louisiana as a Democrat. This is the first time, in a while, that I can remember a major candidate switching parties from being a Republican to a Democrat. Typically it has been the other way around. Some may feel that this is just an anomaly and that you will be seeing more Democrats switching to Republicans in Louisiana as the Republicans try and flex their muscle.