<p>mercymom, I was just good-naturedly poking a stick at ID, who persists in referring to Obama as Barack Hussein Obama. Race and ethnicity is not something I think about when voting – or not voting – for a candidate.</p>
<p>My Republican brother-in-law knows Jindal and thinks quite highly of him. He seems pretty young to be VP to me, but I’m voting Democratic so it doesn’t matter to me.</p>
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<p>That is exactly why he won’t be selected. Repubs can’t say Obama is thin on his resume and have Jindal on the ticket. People will say what if McCain dies, Jindal has less experience than Obama.</p>
<p>I suspect that he is definetely not on the short list b/c I hear he will be a key note speaker at the convention. I can’t recollect a VEEP being announced as a keynote this early. Plus VEEPs keynote is on a different night.</p>
<p>I am back to Kay…alas, I believe it will be Mitt…not my 1st choice, but Mitt brings economics to the table where McCain is weak, and the conservative party. Your VEEP is always selected to shore up the candidates weaknesses. This is why I think Obama will choose Biden.</p>
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<p>Oh, I know you’re just kidding around. But I did notice and think funny that people like ID (whose posts I love reading, btw) jab at Barack by calling him Barry, and (from other things I’ve read) people jab at Jindal by calling him Piyush. I don’t think about race either when voting, or party for that matter. </p>
<p>fwiw - Jindal was my relatives’ Congressman and they are quite smitten with him. My mom lived with me for 4 months after Katrina, during which time I had to run her life for her over the internet. I read a lot of nola.com (Times Picayune online) and mom listened to WWL radio on some thingy my H set up for her. So I got a lot of info on Jindal over that time period. Plus, one of my cousins is an email politcal junkie, so I am still getting a lot of unsolicited information. Sigh.</p>
<p>I agree Jindal seems too young. But you just never know.</p>
<p>OK, I’m finding this VERY confusing. I just wrote the following response in one thread, and now it appears in another. Oh, well. Just so people don’t think I’m completely nuts.</p>
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<p>I have to disagree with you both on this. The press, mainstream media, or whatever we want to call them, has had a love/hate relationship with Obama ever since he emerged as a serious candidate. They’ve vacillated wildly between fawning over him (Chris Matthew’s weird “thrill going up his leg”) and castigating him. They latched onto the Reverend Wright story like a starving terrier with a bone, and branded Obama with the scarlet “C” (criminal) as guilty by association with certain characters. They’ve done the same with McCain. Though his near career-ending role in the Keating scandal has received little play, the media has gleefully portrayed him as a bumbling, senile old man, and worse, as a political hypocrite, in bed (both literally and figuratively) with lobbyists. They even floated the absurd notion of cowardice during his POW years. </p>
<p>With a few exceptions, I don’t see the media as particularly right wing or left wing, or in love/hate with one candidate or another. Rather, they give the public what we seem to crave these days–sensationalism. Who cares what one’s policy positions are, when we can prate endlessly and ignorantly about their personal lives, what church they attended, how they divorced their first wife, etc? Political figures are built-up as demigods one week, then cast down as Satan incarnates the next. The truth is undoubtedly somewhere in the middle: Obama and McCain are neither as good, nor as bad, as the media portrays them.</p>
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<p>Barack Hussein Obama is his name, or so he claims.</p>
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<p>I always thought GW’s full name was George W. Alfred E. Neumann Bush. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>Hindoo, I’ve seen George BusH itler used more frequently. Incredibly witty & subtle, isn’t it?</p>
<p>No. And neither is “Alfred E. Neumann” a witty or subtle middle name, nickname, or whatever. Just an accurate one. Alas.</p>
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<p>Haven’t seen his Birth Certificate, have you?</p>
<p>I heard there IS an official copy… somewhere. ;)</p>
<p>Took about 3 seconds…</p>
<p>[Birth</a> Certificate](<a href=“Archive blogs”>Archive blogs)</p>
<p>Like so many others he was named after his father. The guy can’t control the name he was given. If he had changed it 20 years ago it would be brought up now he was trying to hide something. No-win situation. Obviously his parents didn’t forsee a Presidential run…</p>
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<p>Say it ain’t so - did I really read that? Yes, I must have, because I cut and pasted it.</p>
<p>Regrettably,
GWB bares a remarkable comedic resemblance to Alfred E Newman.</p>
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BHO bares no resemblance at all to the incomparable Mars Balckmon – or the circle would be complete. </p>
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<p>Don’t even talk about Barack Obama in visual terms. Trust me, you don’t want to go there. In jest, in a typical satirical lampoon, in a journalistic cartoon, or in any way whatsoever. You will be called names. Crowds may chase you with lighted torches. There are rules for talking about such things (I have not yet seen a list, but hopefully one will be published and distributed soon). The 1st amendment does not apply here. You can make George Bush out to be anything which is human, animal, vegetable, or mineral. As far as Obama goes, apparently it would be a BIG mistake.</p>
<p>All major political figures are lampooned on their physical characteristics–Bill Clinton’s bulbous nose, Obama’s outsized ears and toothy grin, Bush’s beady eyes, etc. But I agree with spideygirl–the color of a candidate’s skin still seems to be taboo. We can’t go there.</p>
<p>I’m kinda curious why that is though… I guess those being offended aren’t as enlightened as they would like to think they are. It’ll be the first time I can recall anything being politically taboo…</p>
<p>Can’t go there because African American politicians have mastered the art of screaming “racism” at the slightest provocation. For example: lose a primary, it’s because the voters are “racist”.</p>
<p>interesteddad–Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are the primary screamers and I’m pretty much sick to death of both of them. Jackson, in my humble opinion, is completely worthless.</p>
