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To: goldworldnet who wrote (249144)	5/7/2008 1:31:57 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793976

when oh when are people working for the msm going to get over their racism? I looked at several web sites last night, and he sure isn't very convincing when asked about the vp nomination. One thing that really stuck out were the lead ins on MSM sites that I encountered in my search. The typical exaggerations about where he stands. Doing a bit more research this morning and reading some liberal blogs, shows he might be too conservative. Especially where it comes to to abortion. He could take a lesson from other politicians and soften his stance, putting that issue behind him. IBD ran an article contrasting Jindal with Obama. They've taken it down, but I found parts of it at this site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bobby Jindal: the un-Obama Investor's Business Daily contrasts the media fawning over Barack Obama with the media ignoring Bobby Jindal: [Obama's life story] is a compelling story of the American dream. But so is the story of Bobby Jindal. Who is Jindal, you ask? That you have to ask tells a lot how the media cover minorities in politics. He's a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana. His parents emigrated from India a few days before he was born, making him the first Indian American in Congress. True, freshmen congressmen are not necessarily front-page news. But one suspects that had Jindal been a Democrat, this 33-year-old Brown University Rhodes Scholar, who became head of Louisiana's $4 billion Health and Hospitals Department at age 24, president of the University of Louisiana system at 27 and a top adviser on health policy to the president at 29, would not be a political trivia question. As head of Louisiana's health care system, he was able to turn the state's $400 million Medicaid deficit into a surplus. His record of achievement in that state almost propelled him into the governor's mansion. This bit is particularly odious: Obama is hailed by Newsweek as one of 10 "who will shape our world in 2005" and who will "inevitably make most short lists for vice president" in 2008. But when Jindal was running for governor of Louisiana, New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen, in a so-called profile, hinted that Jindal's "freakishly impressive" resume wasn't the most important thing voters needed to know. To Cohen, Jindal was the "dark-skinned son of immigrants from India." Dark-skinned. Not brilliant. Not accomplished. Dark-skinned. Cohen wasn't alone. An October 2003 article in the Los Angeles Times article also referred to Jindal as "dark-skinned," as did two dispatches from The Associated Press, lest hicks forget. IBD concludes: The media and the Democrats fear Jindal, just as they fear Condoleezza Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas and other conservative minority Republicans who rise to prominence on merit. It threatens their hold on African Americans and other minorities and threatens their Big Lie that Republicans are the party of David Duke. They're not. They're now the party of Bobby Jindal. Indeed.