Showing posts with label Bobby Jindal. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Bobby Jindal ends his presidential campaign





I cannot tell you what an honor it has been to run for President of the United States of America. My parents came to this country 45 years ago searching for freedom and a chance.

When I was born, we lived in student housing at LSU, and never in their wildest dreams did they think their son would have the opportunity to serve as Governor of Louisiana or to run for President.

They raised me to believe Americans can do anything, and they were right, we can. But this is not my time, so I am suspending my campaign for President.

Going forward, I believe we have to be the party of growth and we can never stop being the party that believes in opportunity. We cannot settle for The Left’s view of envy and division. We have to be the party that says everyone in this country - no matter the circumstances of their birth or who their parents are – can succeed in America.

One of the things I will do is go back to work at the think tank I started a few years ago - where I will be outlining a blueprint for making this the American century.

We must show the way forward on growing our economy and winning the war against terror, and especially defeating radical Islam.

I realize that our country is off on the wrong track right now. Everyone knows that, but don’t forget, this is still the greatest country in the history of the world – and every single one of us should start every day by thanking God that we are fortunate enough to be US citizens.
Now is the time for all those Americans who still believe in freedom and American exceptionalism to stand up and defend it. The idea of America – the idea that my parents came here for almost a half a century ago - that idea is slipping away from us. Freedom is under assault from both outside our borders and from within. We must act now, we do not have a moment to spare.









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Monday, June 29, 2015

We’re accused of “thinking” and “acting” white if we quote the Constitution, shoot, hunt, oppose high taxes, homeschool, take personal responsibility, or demand that government leave us alone.



There’s nothing “progressive” about attacking the children and grandchildren of immigrants who proudly embrace an American identity.

...The most recent grenade tossed by the jack-booted Enforcers of Ethnic Authenticity came from the Washington Post this week. The Beltway fish-wrapper hyped a 2,100-word investigation of Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal with a condescending quote from Professor G. Pearson Cross, who sneered: “There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal.”...The Post quoted a grand total of one disgruntled Democratic donor who railed against Jindal for “forgetting” his “heritage” and his “roots.” But that was more than enough for the apartheid-lite adherents to heed the dog whistle immediately. The Post’s splashy attack on Jindal’s assimilationist ethic spawned a vile Twitter hashtag game: #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite.

Left-wing racists mocked his skin color, his kids, and his decision to change his name from “Piyush” to “Bobby.” A New York Times digital editor, Shreeya Sinha, gleefully linked to a BBC compilation of “The best of #BobbyJindalisSoWhite.” NBC News gloated over tweets from liberal Indian-Americans who mocked the accomplished governor, Rhodes scholar, and father of three as a “Jindian.” ◼ ...KEEP READING

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Your guide to the 2016 presidential candidates

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I'm In: Bobby Jindal faces an uphill fight in the crowded 2016 field















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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Pro-Jindal group already running ad in Iowa









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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Election 2016: Meet the GOP's outsider candidates



Mainstream media already have a few favorites among the Republican Party's rapidly growing list of long-shot 2016 presidential candidates.

With the recent entries of Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee into the race, the Republicans now have multiple declared candidates who score single-digit percentages in RealClearPolitics' average of polls. Other one-digit players expected to enter the race include New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and others.

But being an unlikely 2016 choice doesn't necessarily mean the press won't be interested in your campaign. A few unlikely GOP hopefuls boast of an impressive amount of media attention.



















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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

GOP 2016 diversity on display in campaign rollouts



With Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina officially joining the GOP presidential race Monday, the Republican field includes two Latinos, an African-American and a woman. And depending on Bobby Jindal's next move, an Indian-American -- a term he's not fond of -- could also be in the mix.

2016 is shaping up to be a year of historic diversity for Republicans, setting the party apart from the all white line-up that's emerging on the Democratic side. That distinction is important for Republicans as some in the party try to make inroads with minorities. But the biggest question is whether a diverse slate of candidates will actually help the GOP overcome its demographic problem, which has contributed to losses at the presidential level in two successive elections.

"With more diversity, comes diverse attention and with diverse attention comes diverse voters," said Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist. "It's not going to change the world, but it's helpful. It's a chip away strategy, every percentage counts. It's not a planned out strategy, but it's one that Republicans should take advantage of."





The RealClearPolitics average of poll measures 14 candidates in the Republican race. Fiorina is 14th, with 1.0 percent of the vote. Carson is eighth, with 4.8 percent. Neither seems set to scare the leaders anytime soon.

But both bring something to the race; if nothing else, the Carson and Fiorina rollouts Monday showed the sprawling range of the Republican campaign. And while each GOP candidate is different from each other, perhaps the greatest contrast of all is between Republican diversity and the virtually single-candidate race on the other side.









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Thursday, April 16, 2015

When will your candidate announce? Here's a helpful timeline:



“The Republican primary is turning into a GOP NASCAR race, and the longer you wait, the more laps you’ll have to make up, as you try to take on the lead car,” said GOP strategist Ron Bonjean. “It would be wise for [New Jersey Gov.] Chris Christie and others to get in sooner, rather than later, because they risk getting dwarfed by others who are capitalizing on fundraising and infrastructure.”
Here’s a cheat sheet for what we know about the remaining potential candidates’ timelines.
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Friday, April 10, 2015

#NRAAM

































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Sunday, March 1, 2015

#CPAC 2015 Lineup: Day 1

◼ THURSDAY, February 26 - Mediate

8:40 a.m. – Dr. Ben Carson



9:00 a.m. – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)



12:00 p.m. – Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)



1:00 p.m. – Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)



1:20 p.m. – Carly Fiorina



1:40 p.m. – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)



5:00 p.m. – Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)



5:20 p.m. – Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)



5:40 p.m. – Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Governor Bobby Jindal, (LA): #CPAC2015





◼ Jindal Blasts GOP Congress in CPAC Speech: ‘Time for Them to Govern’ - Mediate





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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Jindal faces down 2016 tests with CPAC, budget speeches

◼ Standing outside of the White House on Monday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal questioned the President Obama’s qualifications as commander in chief while, implicitly, pushing his own. - Washington Examiner

“The president has really disqualified himself to be our commander in chief,” Jindal said after a National Governors Association meeting there, according to reports. “There are many of us that are very concerned about the president’s unwillingness to call out radical Islamic terrorism and the threat that we face as a country."

Jindal echoed those remarks later in an interview with the Washington Examiner, and that theme will be at the center of his speech Thursday to the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C....
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

MSNBC Guest Says Bobby Jindal's 'Scrubbing The Brown Off His Skin'... Network's Reaction Says It All



◼ On an appearance on MSNBC Monday, Arsalan Iftikhar of TheMuslimGuy.com appeared with host Alex Wagner to discuss Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s latest comments on so-called “no-go zones” (areas in the U.K. that are supposedly off limits to non-Muslims). - KEVIN BOYD/IJREVIEW

Wagner asked Iftikhar about Jindal’s comments and the criticism that he’s received about them.

Here’s what Iftikhar said:
“I think Governor Jindal is protesting a bit too much. He might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin as he runs to the right in a presidential bid.
◼ MSNBC about to give Bobby Jindal the Herman Cain treatment UPDATE: Banned - HotAir

...Let’s hope MSNBC imposes a bit more discipline on their hosts when it comes to talking about race in the next election cycle. For the country’s sake.

UPDATE: Credit where credit is due. It looks like MSNBC is trying to impose some discipline on its overzealous talent. As a response to this controversy, the Comcast property revealed on Tuesday that Iftikhar will not be invited back on MSNBC anytime soon. Good for them.
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Monday, January 19, 2015

If you only read one article on this issue, read this one. Bobby Jindal really does get it!



◼ Jindal’s brilliant take on radical Islam: “Let’s be honest here. Islam has a problem.” - Lawrence Kudlow/Human Events

Those are key sentences in an incredibly hard-hitting speech that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will give in London on Monday. It is the toughest speech I have read on the whole issue of Islamic radicalism and its destructive, murdering, barbarous ways that are upsetting the entire world.

Early in the speech Jindal says he’s not going to be politically correct. And he uses the term “radical Islamists” without hesitation, placing much of the blame for the Paris murders and all radical Islamist terrorism on a refusal of Muslim leaders to denounce these acts.

Jindal says, “Muslim leaders must make clear that anyone who commits acts of terror in the name of Islam is in fact not practicing Islam at all. If they refuse to say this, then they are condoning these acts of barbarism. There is no middle ground.”
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Bobby Jindal: In London

◼ Jindal to Bash Hillary's 'Mindless Naiveté' in London Speech And Declare 'Islam Has a Problem.' - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard

Let me be blunt about this. I want America’s allies to trust us and respect us, and I want our enemies to fear us. Every day our enemies spend their time trying to avoid our justice is a day they are not plotting against us. And I fear that in recent years this has not been the case.

The events of the past several years clearly suggest that America’s allies are often less than certain that they can count on us, and our enemies too often do not fear us. Of course, as Americans we want all people to live in harmony, and we do not desire to have any enemies. But the simple truth is that we do, but that is not of our doing.

There are people in the world who mean us harm, who desire our downfall, and who simply detest us because we stand for freedom. I have no interest in coddling them, or pretending that bad is good. Sugar coating the reality of the situation serves no purpose, we must not be afraid to speak the truth.... KEEP READING
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

"It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It’s a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won."

◼ Jindal: The voters spoke, Republicans should listen - Bobby Jindal/Washington Examiner

“Elections have consequences,” President Obama said, setting his new policy agenda just three days after taking office in 2009. Three elections later, the president’s party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.

Commentators and pundits are already suggesting that Republicans need to be careful about what they do now that they control Congress. So do I — I believe we need to be very careful to stand up for what we believe in, and for what the American people voted for....

Let’s put the onus on the President and give him the opportunity to finally do the will of the American people. He can be constructive, or he can finish his Presidency as a liberal obstructionist ideologue who vetoes everything.
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Gov Jindal on Landrieu Racism Charge: Only Colors That Matter Are Red, White & Blue

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Gov. Bobby Jindal to sue Obama administration on Common Core



◼ Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said he was filing a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Obama administration over alleged manipulation of grant money to force states to accept Common Core as their school standards. - Cheryl K. Chumley/Washington Times

Mr. Jindal is also accusing the White House of manipulating the regulatory process to compel states to take the much-disputed educational program, The Associated Press reported.

The U.S. Department of Education used its $4.3 billion grant program and waiver policy to press states into accepting the same educational testing and standards program. Mr. Jindal said that action “effectively forces states down a path toward a national curriculum,” which violates the 10th Amendment of the Constitution — state sovereignty, AP said.

Mr. Jindal also alleged the action breaks federal laws that ban the federal government from taking control of school and educational content.

◼ In his suit, Jindal says the new program violates the 10th Amendment by subverting state sovereignty as the administration pressured states to adopt the standards. Jindal initially supported Common Core but reversed course. - David Drucker/Washington Examiner

“The proponents of Common Core will tell you that it’s simply about one test and about standards, but that’s a ruse. Common Core is about controlling curriculum. Educators know that what’s tested is what’s taught,” Jindal said. “Make no mistake — Common Core tests will drive curriculum. Common Core supporters should own up to this fact and finally admit they want to control curriculum. These are big government elitists that believe they know better than parents and local school boards.”

Jindal argues that the Obama administration “hijacked” the program and transformed it from its original intent.
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Bobby Jindal: Your Kid Deserves Better Than Common Core



◼ Jindal said Common Core has become more bureaucratic than educational. - Philip Wegmann/The Daily Signal
◼ Jindal Admin: Common Core Is Illegal Federal ‘Scheme’ - Daily Caller
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Bobby Jindal has had enough of Common Core...

◼ The Next Governor Who Wants Out of Common Core has Arrived – It’s Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal - IJ Review

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal once supported the set of educational standards known as Common Core, which are being used to benchmark everything from school curricula to college entrance exams.
Now, he wants to withdraw the state of Louisiana from the Common Core standards, whether the state legislature approves measures to do so or the governor himself begins the withdrawal process....

Recall that Common Core was not passed through Congress, but was implemented via backdoor by state governors to circumvent parental input and obviate local control over educational content and testing criteria.

The Common Core website explains how it is a privately backed, copyrighted set of standards that has been adopted by a consortium of testing and textbook publishers.

It has been backed by wealthy financier Bill Gates, who also stands to gain from a data-mining arrangement in conjunction with InBloom. The New York Daily News described this project as a drive to “create a national database” of children’s education records.

No wonder Common Core supporters didn’t want a public debate over these issues – one can imagine the parental backlash. That delayed parental backlash is taking place now, and it has been putting pressure on governors like Bobby Jindal to take action.

◼ Bobby Jindal says he will get Louisiana out of Common Core test group, if Legislature won't

Jindal's withdraw from PARCC - and Common Core by extension -- is likely to play well with a vocal group of parents and lawmakers who have serious reservations about the assessment. Common Core critics, particularly those with conservative political leanings, believe the PARCC could cause Louisiana to lose control over its student data and risk children's privacy, since it will likely be used by several states. They also say the test will be expensive to implement, though its costliness is a point of contention with PARCC backers.

◼ Pushback Continues: States Grow Increasingly Wary of Common Core - Heritage

...Oklahoma, too, is currently in a battle over Common Core. The state senate passed a bill earlier this month downgrading the state’s involvement with the national standards, although there is some difference of opinion as to whether it would fully remove Oklahoma from the standards, or merely change the name of the standards.

...Meanwhile, the Missouri House of Representatives passed their bill to find a Common Core replacement.

...Fifteen states have now made strides in halting or downgrading their involvement in the standards. Last month, Indiana became the first state to exit Common Core. This is promising momentum in the effort of states to reclaim their educational decision-making authority.
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