Comments on: Blanco C*ck-Blocks Jindal. Big time.

By: L.B. Parsi

L.B. Parsi — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:16:58 +0000

After what they've been doing to Barrack Obama, is it really necessary to empirically prove dirty race baiting in politics?

Stupidity and ignorance doesnâ€™t need scientific examination, it just needs to be eliminated through education and â€œsunshine.â€

By: Roddy Moradabadi

Roddy Moradabadi — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:35:20 +0000

Dave, I agree with you regarding the principle.

Jindal's own behavior makes less relevant, in his particular case, the concern regarding discrimination against brown folks. It's like a tagger's own house getting vandalized. In principle, vandalism is wrong. But when it happens to a perpetrator it's not quite an outrage. It doesn't change the principle but it does affect the application.

I see the point about the suffix as a stretch. "Jindal is bad" is a good subject-verb-predicate, active-voice sentence, perfect for speech or broadcast. The best thing about it is that it's easy to remember as a URL.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:50:39 +0000

Roddy, Let's factor your "abad" vs. "bad" distinction into a statistical analysis of the likelihood "jindalisbad" has a chance similarity to to words like "islamabad".

Your points that Jindal may himself have engaged in discriminatory behavior regarding brown muslims doesn't make the concern any less relevant about using browness, muslimness, desiness pejoratively in political campaigns. I don't think it's good strategy for desis to overlook it, or explain it away just because it's used against a desi that themselves may have used it as a weapon against others.

I think brown folks want to avoid tragedies of the commons & races to the bottom. For example, I think it's short-sighted for latinos to try to capitalize off of anti-arab sentiment in America.

By: Roddy Moradabadi

Roddy Moradabadi — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:24:55 +0000

Dave: the suffix is "abad," not "bad." Anyway, there are "abad" suffixed cities in India as well, such as Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Hyderabad and Moradabad. Based on Wikipedia's lists, Pakistan's -abad towns outnumber India's by around 3.

Bobby Jindal, while campaigning in 2004 and playing up his experience with healthcare, visited hospitals for photo-ops. His advance team made certain that no Muslim physicians would be anywhere around, so Muslim doctors had to leave the area of the photo-op. Muslim doctors (Indian, Pakistani and Arab) didn't like that.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:32:40 +0000

haven’t been to the site in awhile. But Patton Boggs has roots in Louisiana. Any one that lives in New Orleans knows that several Federal buildings are named after Hale Boggs Sr., who was House Majority Leader. His son runs the lobbying firm. His sister is none other than Cokie Roberts. We need Breaux, for the federal dollars. You don’t get to be Head of the House Finance Committee with having some pull.

By: SuperJagjit

SuperJagjit — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:32:17 +0000

Kudos for resisting the temptation to title this post, Blanco C*ck-Blocks BJ. Big time.

By: Maitri

Maitri — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:51:35 +0000

If I was a LA resident, at this point I’d feel as though I had to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Hmmmm … if only we had a resident LA resident …

Not so much, Sriram. Breaux is beloved in these parts by blacks and whites, rich and poor alike, and has family all around this area. He’s a shoe-in if he runs. The only question in these parts is if he wants to give up his cushy million-dollar consulting job in DC and move back here to run this mess.

Jindal may have been responsible and responsive after the hurricane and flood, but ultimately, his loyalty falls in this order: 1) party-religion; 2) Louisiana; 3) New Orleans

As someone who purposely refrained from casting a vote in the Blanco-Jindal election, it is with glee that I will vote for Breaux this time around.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:23:00 +0000

oops, I doubt he’d be able to beat Haley Barbour

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:20:55 +0000

This is also a good example of when you have a perfect, defeatable oponent, like Jindal had, you don’t want to blow them out of the water so someone superior can come in too early. A good counter-example is arguably McCain vs. Guiliani &Romney. McCain doesn’t seem to me to be going for the jugular for Guiliani or Romny, and by allowing them both to stay around, I think McCain is sucking a lot of the media attention and money from a single, more conservative candidate that they could otherwise coalesce around. McCain may not be able to beat a qualified pro-life, anti-gay marriage protestant conservative for the nomination (for example, I doubt he’d be able to beat

By: CiscoKid

CiscoKid — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:44:29 +0000

Who can forget that democrat who called Jindal an Arab-American, and then to apologise said, ok I should have used the politically correct term Indian-American.