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JUN 25 Well, here's a little Christmas in July present a week early - an entire blog dedicated to the Republican Clown Car, or as some people know it, the absurdly crowded field of candidates hoping to run for president on the GOP ticket. This entry covers Bobby Jindal's entry into the ring.
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FOX NEWS: JINDAL'S A GOOD MAN WHO FIXED LOUISIANA
JUN 25 This is not satire, but it is on Fox News, so fair warning. This post is by a Louisiana native who perfectly parrots Bobby's party line: everybody here hates him because he's not a Cajun Good Ole Boy and he fixed Louisiana. Oh - OK.
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IAN ON THE DUKES OF HAZZARD AND THAT FLAG
JUN 25 Blogger Ian McGibboney offers this discussion on the Confederate flag that is causing so much ruckus in the wake of a terrorist attack on a black church by a white supremacist trying to start a race war. As a child, McGibboney was obsessed with the Dukes of Hazzard television show, which of course featured a car called General Lee with a huge Confederate flag painted on the roof. What's his take now? Time to retire that flag, he says.
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JUN 25 Blogger CB Forgotston has been weeding through the bills passed during the past session, checking for explosive little amendments placed on innocuous bills. And, he found some. Sigh.
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SCOUTING REPORT ON JINDAL THE CANDIDATE
JUN 25 Here's an interesting scouting report on Bobby Jindal as a presidential candidate from Live Mint. It's a fairly comprehensive run-down, but seems to focus a lot on Jindal's lack of foreign policy chops (Is that really necessary for a GOP candidate? Don't they just need to know how to push the button?) as well as how attractive his children are. Huh.
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JUN 25 Blogger Tom Aswell lets us know in this post that he's still kicking, he's just not posting much lately as he finishes his book on Bobby Jindal. (He's also got a new entry from that political cartoonist whose identity is shrouded in mystery) Aswell says the book is going well, and adds that when he was asked if he could be fair to Jindal, he responded that he can be as fair to the governor as the governor has been to Louisiana. Uh oh.
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TIME MAGAZINE: JINDAL'S DEAD LAST
JUN 25 Time Magazine posts this analysis of Bobby Jindal's political career, making much of the fact that he was viewed as a rising star at one time, and attempting to explain why he isn't any longer. There are words here like "shtick" and "inauthentic," but it ends with statements that he could win, because hey - there's nowhere to go but up, right?
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
We've got commentary from far and wide on Bobby's decision to hop aboard the GOP clown car. In other news, Ian talks about that flag and CB reports on the session.