Are You Ready for McCain/Jindal?

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1. The colours have come of age, suddenly and surprisingly, almost unexectedly fast.

   For those who descended from East Asian roots or so called “yellow perils”, will you continue to be viewed as “permanent aliens” or “invisible Americans” ?

   Would others, especially those less educated and more prejudiced, still ask you “do you speak English ?”, “which country are you from ?”

   No wonder Bobby Jindal chose to pretent that he is “colourless” and a fanatic Christian right.

   –Nakasone on May 13, 2008

2. Whe push comes to shove, Asians won’t be able to resist the temptation to vote for a potentially first Asian-American President in history.

   Remember, McCain is old enough to croack up any moment. We could have the first Asian-American President as early as 2009!

   In reality, very few Asians are truly liberal Democrats. Most Asians are fiscally conservative, upwardly-mobile and stand to benefit from Republican economic policies. Nonetheless, many Asians shifted towards the Democratic camp in recent years due to the concern about white nativism in the Republican party.

   If, however, whites show willingness to share power with Asians, as symbolized by McCain-Jindal, Asians would welcome the historic opportunity and join the ruling whites as equal partners.

   It’s premature to speculate on McCain-Jindal because McCain has a number of VP choices such as Crist and Sanford. But Jindal looks more and more appealing to Republicans facing voter backlash and historical campaign of Barack Obama.

   –In-Chul Sohn on May 15, 2008

3. I would bet that Asian Americans could resist Jindal.
   It would definitely show that race is secondary to ideology.
   Asian Americans may be hungry for recognition and power, but a vote for Jindal does nothing for us if he does not have same same shared political values as the majority of Asian Americans.
   He merely becomes an Asian face.
   But for the McCain campaign, he’s like a shot of Viagra.

   –Emil Guillermo on May 16, 2008

4. Umm, most Asian Americans of NE asian descent barely consider south Asians to even be Asian (heck, even Filipinos are usually invisible) , certainly most African Americans don’t consider them to be black. Likely they voted him in just because he was a cool guy.

   As far as I’m concerned, his qualifications don’t look a whole lot better than Obama in terms of time in office, though he’s a heckuva lot less scary in terms of hanging out with or married to people who hate America or dissing middle class Americans with guns and religion for favoring Hillary. I’d go with Condie Rice if they really think some color would help the ticket. If McCain really needed an Asian, Washington’s retired governor democrat Gary Locke would be good, but he was too liberal for Republicans and too conservative for Democrats to really make everybody happy.

   –awarthurhu on May 16, 2008

5. Hmmm, awarthur:
   As a professional in the field of “education,” how can you continue in sweeping generalizations like “most Asian Americans of NE Asian descent . . . “?
   Not to mention the following half of the sentence, “barely consider South Asians to even be Asian.”
   You further add insult to injury with the “Filipino” reference, are you buttering Emil?
   First of all, by “NE Asians,” I assume you mean “Chinese,” “Japanese,” and “Korean.” You surely don’t mean Siberian “Russians”?
   You may well be correct in the assumption that SOME Asian Americans of “NE Asian” descent share your divisive, derisive view of nationalistic pride-and-prejudices, but, I assure you, MANY of “us” DON’T.
   My guess is rule of thumb, to wit: the “oligarchs” and the “elites,” ususally self-styled and self-anointed, like those in THIS country and other “western” “colonizers,” of EVERY nation are similarly and equally “guilty,” by thought AND, more particularly, action.
   But MY point of contention is that the EVERYman, EVERYwhere, in every race, creed, and culture, gives the LIE to that belief.
   The “Han” diaspora into your “South Asia” includes the very “class” of what “Erbes” so graciously identified as “merchant pigs” and righteously slaughtered in that Indonesian “pogrom” of a couple generations ago.
   They are represented in such fine fictional “histories” as Joseph Conrad’s seemingly authentic settings in “Victory,” among others.
   “People” are people, and the EVERYman is usually the pawn, the exploited, the “victim” of EVERY oligarch and pretender to power and perquisite, from time immemorial.
   So, I, for one, find your hail-fellow jocularities here less than entertaining, and, in the precise references, more than condescending, insulting actually.
   And you may well prove wrong and in more ways than one.
   Finally, personally, man to man and human to human, I find you, like far too many “in the bush” and in the counting rooms and board rooms and “war rooms,” anathema to humankind AND the very notion of a joined humanity itself.
   You may hold yourself apart, higher, “with” the elite and empowered, and you may wallow in the “troughs” of whatever political party you choose, but, in the end, you, like the rest of us, are merely human, a single individual of relative unimportance and relative powerlessness.
   As for the politics herein, ALL politics is baloney, OR salami, and no matter how you slice it, it’s still sausage, concentrated and nourishing to some, but overspiced and indigestible to others.
   Today, the London Guardian online featured an op/ed piece that advocated forceful? intervention aid. For Sichuan, citing superior “western” knowhow in dealing with such exigencies, never mind simply saving our own miners by implementing regulations already on the law books.
   Aside from the snide superiority implicit, we must save the natives from themselves, they ignore the obvious fact that the vast majority of the 50,000? are already dead. And the even more geopolitical facts of life in that at least one of the stricken “towns” is one of the acknowledged centers of Sino atomic explorations.
   Can you imagine a Russo/Chinese offering of “must” assistance in the event of a similar quake near Alamogordo, with an administration/FEMA response like the one to Katrina and the Gulf Coast?
   No, awarthur, hu-ever you are or may be, this nation would be light years ahead of itself, morally and geopoliltically, were it, simply. to GET THE HELL OUT OF IRAQ.
   Maybe, then, more thousands would not be added to the million-plus already sacrificed in the empty name of “democracy” and “freedom.”
   And harken to the blogs reporting the tens of thousands of psychically maimed veterans returning to a VA hopelessly underfunded and undersupported.
   These latter will remain to haunt us in more ways than suicides by the hundreds, thousands?, and those destined to pave the inner-cities as the homeless and the nameless.
   Sadly, they already number MORE than the 50,000 in the Sichuan environs, mercifully? dead, and even the 78,000 in Myanmar.
   And is anyone counting the literal “millions” facing hunger, if not starvation, on the fringes of a “globalized” society that is long on hubris and short on compassion?
   Physician, heal thyself.
   Frank Eng
   P.S.: And, awarhur, YOU go with Condi Rice. You would make a lovely pair of turncoats on your “own”. People, that is.

   –Frank Eng on May 16, 2008

6. Arthur Hu,

   Jindal has an impressive track record of success:

   Rhodes Scholar, McKinsey consultant, Secretary of Louisiana Dept. of Health & Hospitals, President of the University of Louisiana System, Assistant Secretary of Health & Human Services for Planning and Evaluation under Bush Administration, two-term Congressman (freshman class president), and now the Governor of Louisiana.

   Jindal is not like Obama who is all talk and almost no experience to speak of. Jindal has proven his ability to solve problems.

   I think that most Asians would vote for McCain-Jindal, and perhaps most Latinos also.

   –In-Chul Sohn on May 18, 2008

7. Jindal is now on the short list with Crist. There’s now a 50/50 chance that Jindal will be on McCain’s ticket:

   http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/21/america/21cndmccain.php

   It’d be fun to see general election match-up between white-Asian vs. black-Latino coalition.

   –In-Chul Sohn on May 21, 2008

8. Dear In-Chul Sohn:
   The “fact” that Bobby Jindal has been “invited” as one of three? possible “running-mates” on the McCain “ticket” is more than jaw-dropping to one onlooker.
   And you may be correct insofar as he “fills-the-bill” for a “young” AND “ethnic” balance.
   But methinks you missed the boat in perceiving such a phony political ploy as “sharing power.”
   C’mon, man, since when has “window-dressing” become a part of management in the penthouse suite?
   What has Condi accomplished for blacks in the inner city? Or what has Elaine Chao effected, as in helped, in the Beltway or the outskirst, for her fellow “yellows”?
   Tony Blair has been outed as just one more hyena in the running jackal pack, and HE was actually “elected.”
   And if APAs can be conned into voting for someone who calls them “gooks,” no matter what he thinks or labels today, simply because there is an “Asian” face standing beside him on the rostrum — then they will, simply, gain what they deserve and not what they expect.
   Which is zippo. Zilch. Nada.
   Besides, EVERYone who believes he or she “thinks” would more profitably occupy him- or herself by reading today’s Info Clearing House piece on our domestic brownshirts, by someone named Ketcham I believe, who continue to “spy,” now THIS is true “spying,” on their fellow citizens.
   It’s been ongoing ever since Dubya entered the Oval Office, indeed, likely goes back to Nixon’s “Enemies list,” but Ketcham adds an alarming stat, to wit:
   EIGHT MILLION AMERICANS are in the fascist “database” and under digital “surveillance,” with or without the consent of compliant “media.”
   Personally, I am NOT alarmed. After all, I have the honor of having been “trailed” by an FBI “agent” way back when, when I was as “innocent” as I am today.
   These apparatchik may be crew-cut, tied as in neckties, and suited, as in off-the-rack if not quite Armani, but, push come to shove, far too many of them will prove to be the “thugs and goons” of recent headlines.
   What DID strike this failing sensibility is Ketcham’s alert that the American putsch will come by way of, get this!, FEMA and our dearly belated Homeland Security crowd.
   No wonder Dubya praised Brownie for a job well-done post-Katrina.
   So, when domestic militias prowl the highways and the byways for those who refuse to salute their “mutter”land mutterings, stars and stripes a-fluttering, don’t say you haven’t been warned.
   Bill is bilging, Hillary is hysterical, sorry, ladies, and Joe Lieberman is whispering into McCain’s ear exactly how he should say l’chaim.
   Frank Eng
   P.S.: Yeah, bite on every single bit of bait the neocons dump into the wake of their speeding swiftboat. All the way up the Potomac.

   –Frank Eng on May 22, 2008

9. It’s clear that Jindal is interested in the VP spot. Look at this recent photo of Jindal projecting Kennedyesque image:

   http://apnews.myway.com/image/20080522/Jindal__VP_talk.sff_LATM104_20080522163324.html?date=20080522&docid=D90QUP7G0

   Jindal is touted as the next Ronald Reagan who was widely popular with Asian-Americans in the 80’s. Asians are not looking for massive spending programs to benefit them, they just want equal opportunity rewardubg their merit and efforts. Jindal is a son of immigrants, and worked his way up the American society by hard work, like so many other Asian-Americans.

   Having lived in Louisiana years ago, I have high regard for the people of the Bayou state and their judgment. If Jindal is right for Louisiana, he is right for America.

   –In-Chul Sohn on May 22, 2008

10. He was featured on conservative Human Events, some comments like that he was more conservative than McCain, but others see him as a conservative version of Obama, a nice guy that we would support when his resume gets bigger, but we don’t need an obamalike for VP. Give me an experienced white guy who’s qualified any day, or any of the prominent black conservatives that have been thrown about. If we want to vote for more Asian conservatives, we have to step up and produce some, not just crackpot freelance columnists like me.

    –awarthurhu on May 23, 2008

11. Poor Obama, now Hillary has threaten him with assasination. If you research into how many people end up dead going against the Clintons, you would take her threats seriously.

    –Huang Fong on May 23, 2008

12. Three asides, folks:
    And “free,” as in “no charge,” at that.
    First, damnit! Huang Fong, who’s your “writer”?
    Better than jay Leno’s, for sure. You know how to pop a punchline and then get off the stage.
    You posit “truths” that bubble just below the surface, like that teenager in London who almost got hailed into court for calling Scientology a “cult.” The kid’s right, as in correct, but he also misses the profounder truth there, that Scientology is, actually, a Ponzi scheme built atop a ripoff of Freudian psychology, Tom Cruise notwithstanding.
    Oh, the fact remains, RFK was assassinated not by one Sirhan Sirhan but by the Establishment fears that he would put into place the domestic and geopolitical U-turn that got his older brother “terminated.”
    Both, and Martin Luther too. King, that is.
    What I hate is that you got in an it-only-hurts=when-I-laujgh undertow.
    But, Huang, never fear, today’s LATimes banners the result of their statewide “poll,” in conjunct with KTLA yet, that proclaims Obama would beat McCain by SEVEN points “today,” wherezs Billary would squeeze by with a mere three points.
    That said, Two:
    awarthur, I for one, never said or hinted you were “crackpot,” although “freelance” for sure, as in “sell-swords,” those worthies in George R. R. Martin’s incredible but now seemingly stalled “Ice and Fire” sci-fi anthology that puts the likes of L. Ron Hubbard to rout AND comparative shame. As writer AND inceptor.
    And, awarthur, may your hopes and dreams be realized, as in the fulsome, the Webster version, recognition of your “free-lancing” peers, in or out of the swiftboat/Gladia ranks.
    Finally, no. 3:
    In-Chul, are you fully aware of just how deep your racism goes when it comes to “blacks”?
    Hey!, Obama is only half-African, albeit more than that “colored.”
    Why are you so ready to embrace your er, ah “white” projections of “security” and “freedom” to pursue whatever it is that you choose to run after?
    The sad fact here, my fellow APAmerican, is that “race” and “color” and “creed” have nothing, not word one OR clue one, to do with what this ” election” is “about.”
    Wherein, the sole and single and only TRUE reference is to power and perks, whose wielders and beneficiaries give not fig One or damn! Two as to who and whom and where and whzat and how and why accomplishes same.
    For them.
    More than half a century ago, the MacArthurs and like made their return to Asian shores, not in the Philippines, but in the frigid waters of your homeland.
    The ostensible casus belli was to save your people from the insufferable bane of “godless” “Communism.”
    The subtext was the confrontation of a China that had ousted its Chiangs in favor of a subsisting/starving nation of some 300 millions.
    Well, unlike their successful strangling of the Soviet infant in its ideologicazl cradle, check Warren Beatty’s incredible reconstruct of that era in “Reds,” those “heathen Chinee” produced the likes of Mao, bad breath and concubines (Texas polygaminsts, anyone) notwithstanding, AND Deng “minor”? “Peace”. who led a cowed and submissive people to today’s pretenders to “Olympics” glories.
    Today, the London Guardian online bannered the Dalai Lama’s plaint that the cadres plan to flood the Tibetan plateau with Han “settlers,” how does that resonate with Gaza?, once the Gold and the Silver and the Bronze have been emplaced, a planted “story” by those dratted “Dalai clique” incitersp, but one which, nonetheless, foretells a failed Dalai/Beijing ralpprochement.
    Sigh.
    No, guys, one and all, the sad premise appears to be the one that has dogged and damned this planet since WWII, which is to say, the paranoid and patriarchal view and vision of the “victors” of WWII.
    Their NATO, now, curiously, merely Nato, is the progenitor AND sponsor of the “Gladfa” that infests ALL of Europe, AND Turkey, and, no doubt, as SEALS and psy-ops and mere “diplomats,” today infest every corner of this globe we call Erda.
    Also, today, Latin America, Mexico and regionals excepted?, appears headed on a no-return course of independence and self-sufficienty, MI6’s claim to South Atlantic seas notwhithstanding. Maybe Carlos knows more than “we” know.
    So, vote for your “white” haciendad. You would be among the 46 per centum and NOT the 53 majority. In Czalifornia at least.
    In which case, who NEEDS “white working-class males” and “white matrons,” not to mention West Virginia and Kentucky? Even Indiana was almost evenly “split.” Between racism and joblessness, that is.
    Frank Eng
    P.S.:Huang, do you give classes on how to be brief, to the point, and persuasive? And do you offer scholarships?

    –Frank Eng on May 23, 2008

13. Again, Jindal has a brilliant track record, and the media is now promoting his VP candidacy.

    Some raise an issue about his relative youth, at age 36. Actually, by historical standards, 36 is fairly mature age for a national leader. Let’s look at some of the greatest politicial/military leader in history and their age at rise to power:

    Napoleon, First Consul of France at 30, Emperor at 35;

    Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, age 44;

    Taizong of Tang, Emperor at 27;

    Elizabeth I of England, Queen at age 25;

    Alexander the Great, King of Macedon at age 20

    William Pitt, the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain, age 24, etc.

    I think McCain-Jindal would rally whites, Asians and Latinos, and crush Obama or Clinton in November.

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 25, 2008

14. In-Chul:
    That’s quite a company you have enlisted above.
    I agree, what’s “age” got to do with it?
    On the other hand, I question your assumption that Bobby has an impressive “track record.”
    Bill Clinton precedes, and he is proving to be just one more politico and one more wannabe.
    I want to see and hear and believe that Jindal is turning Louisiana into the promised land of liberte, fraternite, and egalite, before I salute.
    And, I iterate, since when has window-dressing equated “power-sharing”?
    No, YOU vote for McCain, but, please, do NOT shoot any rival “candidate.”
    As for Billary, she has been YOUR candidate’s stalking horse, having exhausted EVERY possible issue relating to Obama’s fitness, electability, AND “spirituality,” as in religious affiliation. I’m afraid this one’s a Harpie, ladies. If Eleanor were still here, I would nominate HER, and vote for her, should I be around come November. But, given our choices here, Obama is the ONLY

    –Frank Eng on May 25, 2008

15. . . . Obama is the single possible “hope” for the future, if there is to be a future for humankind. Which, in itself, would constitute substantive “change.”

    –Frank Eng on May 25, 2008

16. Here’s a Washington Times editorial urging supporting Jindal’s candidacy:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080524/EDITORIAL/964300622/1013

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 26, 2008

17. Another article touting Obama as the “most promising Republican of his generation”:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10551.html

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 26, 2008

18. Dear In-Chul:
    I begin to weary anent your viewpoints herein, just as, no doubt, you find mine.
    However, I hope you are fully aware that the Washington Times is THE mouthpiece for the Rev. Moon, whose millions, billions now?, and minions are a quaint Beltway affectation of politics-as-usual.
    Uri Avnery, last week, out of Tel Aviv?, cited “Jewish” billionaires who are the lifeblood of oppression in Palestine and the petard of Middle East bloodletting.
    Similarly, as historians and scholars like Chalmers Johnson? have uppointed, the field generals of this and all prior generations, from Caeser on, and Alexander’s before him and all those tribal chieftains and their loot and booty, are bought and paid-for by those with the gelt and the power to awe if not shock.
    ALL generals should go public with their private accounts, even IF said accounts don’t begin to credit investments and stocks and bonds and the “income” thereof..
    As ever, with human individuals, greed predominates amongst these purveyors of death and destruction.
    Today’s “Memorial Day,” ostensibly “honoring” our brave and our dead, was replete on-screen with the properly cynical and hypocritical observances.
    Tomorrow, McCain proposes to continue the fruitless and bootless bloodletting, so long as there is “hope” for “victory” in this “war” against “terrorism.”
    More bucks in the back pocket that already bulges with the accommodations of the Keating Five?
    Frank Eng

    –Frank Eng on May 26, 2008

19. Steve Eng:

    McCain has moved to the center on climate change, health care, and yes, Arab-Israeli conflict.

    In fact, Obama’s position is hardly distinguishable from McCain’s. McCain has acknowledged before that Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestinians and does more to help the Palestinians (than Fatah); he said he would talk to Hamas if Hamas would renounce violence and recognize Israel’s right to exist. How can anyone be more reasonable than that, especially as an American politician?

    Obama used to be pro-Palestinian, but now that he’s running for President, is changing his tune to attract Jewish voters. He has called Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations, and would not meet with them.

    So what’s the difference between McCain and Obama on key issues? McCain offers practical and fiscally responsible solutions to middle-class Americans. Obama offers pie-in-the-sky, can’t-we-just-get-along, “change and hope”, nonsense.

    What Obama really wants is Reparations for Slavery, and Super Affirmative Action that will drive Asians out of colleges and professional jobs.

    Obama represents the hope of mankind? I’m tired of seeing him on high stage, lecturing people like we are all retards. There are at least 100,000 Americans more qualified than he to become President. What he needs to do is apply for a preaching job at a black nationalist church.

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 27, 2008

20. In-Chul:
    On your above “arguments,” Republicans should vote for Obama?

    –Frank Eng on May 27, 2008

21. Ahhh since I heard Jindal is probably going to run as McCain’s running mate I would’ve totally considered leaning toward voting for McCain in favor over Obama seeing he might bring something to the table for Asian-Americans. However after reading how he’s very conservative, and a believer in “intelligent” design, and white-washed to the point where Obama is even more Asian than him, I guess I’ll continue to stick with Obama’s side. Never liked McCain and conservatives anyways.

    –Rocko on May 28, 2008

22. Eng,

    Here’s McCain advocating talks with Hamas right after the Palestinian election two years ago, play the video to hear him yourself:

    http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/05/mccain_2006_negotiate_with_ham.html

    Obama never had the balls to say anything kind about Hamas. He has repeatedly condemned Hamas as terrorist organization, rejected Palestinians’ right of return, and pledged continuing support of Israel as a “Jewish state.”

    Yes, some Republicans will vote for Obama, just as far more Democrats will vote for McCain. Based on my conversations with likely voters, whites are for McCain, Asians are for McCain, Latinos split 50/50, Blacks 100/0 for Obama. Not sure about Jews, ask them yourself.

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 28, 2008

23. Obama doesn’t even know how many states we have in the States (Play the video):

    http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/from_the_if_mccain_did_this_fi.php

    This is the problem with Affirmative Action beneficiaries. People who are almost illiterate are given important jobs, and admission to top schools. So Obama, Democratic contender for the POTUS, and a Harvard Law grad, wants support from Americans in all 58 states (traveled 57 and 1 left to go) of the U.S.

    I have read Michelle Obama’s senior thesis for her Princeton degree, and noted the countless misspelled words, grammatical errors, and lack of coherent organization. Again, someone who couldn’t graduate from a community college if she had been white or Asian, received a Princeton degree, admission to Harvard Law, attorney position at a top law firm, and is now on various corporate boards, making $300k salary a year.

    We think about the countless Asians who are 10 x (100 x?) better qualified than blacks, and still refused admission to colleges, medical schools, etc., and resent seeing another unqualified black seeking a top job, this time to run this country.

    Woe be the day when President Obama, after a long and hard day visiting the 57th state in the Union, relaxes himself by snorting crack like he used to in high school (still does?), and playing with the hot buttons to launch nuclear missiles against the world.

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 28, 2008

24. Rocko,

    If and when Jindal is named McCain’s running mate, I will defend Jindal’s conservative credentials, and explain the need to accommodate religious people in this country.

    Most people are not strong enough, or intellectual enough to live in a godless, materialist universe, and must “cling” to religion like Obama said. I don’t berate those people, and prefer to get along with them.

    –In-Chul Sohn on May 28, 2008

25. Sohn:
    I’m beginning to cry here before I laugh.
    First of all, Jindal as running mate for your man?
    Not likely.
    Not enough votes therein.
    More likely Mitt or Crist? Many many more votes.
    Even that Arklahomey populist.
    As for APA “Democrats” for Reagan, sorry, McCain, rotsa ruck, kiddo.
    Hamas? Fatah?
    Check with Hedy Epstein, Dr. David J. Goldberg of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, Uri Avnery for sure, and, maybe the likes of that mesnch of a musician, Daniel Barenboim.
    Me? As an avowed “Chinese-Jew” with some roots in the old sod of that Emerald Island, not to mention a nod or two in the direction of the “Romany” Berlusconi is routing out of Italy’s boot and a sad obeisance to what has evolved in Nelson Mandela’s legacy in South Africa. But, then, so has Gandhi’s dream been turned into nightmare by lesser men. His vision lives, AND his practices.
    Frank Eng
    P.S.: Your er, ah, polling claims are almost as enlightening as Lou Dobbses’ harping on “illegal” aliens and border “fences.”

    –Frank Eng on May 28, 2008

26. Sohn:
    Forget spelling and grammar, but, “lack of coherent organization:?
    Are you talking about yourself?
    OR your “researchers” AND your “writers”?
    I smell another swiftboat invention here.
    And the stench is overpowering, as in the raw and nauseating appeal to racism(s).
    Sign me out for future Sohn-ings.
    Add him to the likes of the Erbeses herein.

    –Frank Eng on May 28, 2008

27. Well uhh Sohn, that’s great you like Jindal and that’s fine but accommodate religious people in this country? Haven’t we accommodate them enough already, like come on now, most of the leadership in politics are made up of religious people (mostly Christian) and the main problem I have with those religious people in power is that some of them are trying to put their beliefs in our constitution (can somebody say abortion, anti-gay marriage). I wonder if they could comprehend what a separation of church and state is?
    For me personally I do not think religious people are weak or stupid and I don’t think they cling to religion. In fact I’m cool with them and I respect whatever they believe in, but what I would appreciate though is if they would keep whatever beliefs and their philosophy inside of their place of worship where it belongs and not in politics.

    –Rocko on May 29, 2008

28. McCain is kicking off his campaign at the New Orleans suburb of Kenner:

    http://www.ktbs.com/news/McCain–Jindal-to-meet-Tuesday-in-Kenner-12593/

    McCain is not spending all that time in Louisiana to sample authentic Cajun food. Looks like McCain-Jindal v. Obama-Clinton iin November.

    –In-Chul Sohn on Jun 03, 2008

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