Jindal: Time to Stop Apologizing for America

Criticizing both the Bush and Obama administrations for failing to execute adequate domestic security policies, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal went on a tear Sunday, criticizing Washington for playing defense, relying on luck and apologizing for protecting the nation from terrorists.

The federal government has to face the fact the War on Terror is about enemies who hate the U.S. way of life, not about social justice, he said.

"The reality is, this isn't about people who don't have enough jobs, who don't have enough social aid, this is about fighting an enemy that hates our way of life," Jindal said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"This is a fundamental clash of cultures. ... This isn't, well, let's go and figure out a way to apologize for Americans. This isn't how we offended them because we're supporting Israel," he continued.

Jindal, who has had a very public feud with the White House over the administration's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, added that the current president is responsible for leading the country down the wrong path.

"You look at some of President Obama's writings, you look at how he talks about, 'Well, we need to understand the disadvantaged background, this is a matter of social justice and more foreign aid.' Nonsense. The analysts have looked at the terrorists that are coming at us of a disproportionate share or educated, come from privileged backgrounds," he said.

But Jindal also saved criticism for former President George W. Bush, saying his administration handled Shoe Bomber Richard Reid in much the same way.

In his new book "Leadership and Crisis," Jindal writes that the United States' "current therapeutic approach to national security is dangerous. I'm just not interested in empathizing with the grievances of our sworn enemies. Let's figure out where they're vulnerable and destroy them."

Jindal said body searches of  6- and 12-year-old girls traveling to visit their grandparents is illogical. Instead, it's time to dip into methods that rely on information without "political correctness."

"It's so hard to understand why they're so worried about the terrorists' rights and not our rights," Jindal said. "You go back to the Miranda rights for the underwear bomber. What evidence did they need? I mean they caught him with a device. What was the purpose?"

Jindal said a better approach would be using information available to figure out who's most likely to strike.

"I don't think it's profiling, I think it's using information we know. You look at things like, for example, you look at travel patterns, you look at how they purchased their ticket. You look at the information, the intel we've got," he said.

Jindal added that so far the administration has claimed luck in stopping the bombing of Times Square, the diversion of cargo packages containing bombs and underwear bomber Umar Farouk Mutallab.

"Luck is not a strategy. We need to be rooting out networks; we need to be killing these terrorists. I think the American people, when they see an administration worried about reading Miranda rights to the underwear bomber. They worry when they see an administration committed to civilian trials," he said. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/21/jindal-time-stop-apologizing-america/

I definitely like this guy, I really want to see him get more air time.
We definitely have people to choose from this time around.
Last time, the MSM chose McCain for us, thats what happens when you have a weak party.

Quote from: Solar on November 21, 2010, 07:28:57 PM
I definitely like this guy, I really want to see him get more air time.
We definitely have people to choose from this time around.
Last time, the MSM chose McCain for us, thats what happens when you have a weak party.

Well said! It's important to remember too that the MSM were a significant reason for that weakness -- their unrelenting critical reportage of Bush and Co. took a toll. My own sister, with a nursing degree and a law degree, a very smart gal, hates W with a personal, visceral passion. Dick Cheney is #2 on her hate list. It shocks me that she offers no sound, logical reasons for her hatred. I don't think she much cares for Obama, but she prefers him to Bush simply because his isn't Bush.

OK, simply because he isn't Bush.

Fingers faster than brain....

Quote from: tbone0106 on November 21, 2010, 08:00:07 PM
Well said! It's important to remember too that the MSM were a significant reason for that weakness -- their unrelenting critical reportage of Bush and Co. took a toll. My own sister, with a nursing degree and a law degree, a very smart gal, hates W with a personal, visceral passion. Dick Cheney is #2 on her hate list. It shocks me that she offers no sound, logical reasons for her hatred. I don't think she much cares for Obama, but she prefers him to Bush simply because his isn't Bush.

This may be the first time in more than 40 years the MSM didn't pick our candidates, we did.
It is also the beginning of the end of liberalism as it is known today. They either move back to the right, or die as socialists/Marxists.

Either way, the Country is fed up with their bull shit.
I hope your sister as least in her early thirties, there is still hope for her. ::) ;)

While we're on the subject of who ought to run for president, how about Mike Pence, the congressman from Indiana? Anybody hear any good or bad things about him?

I recently read an abridged version of a speech he made at Hillsdale College, and I was mightily impressed! The adjective that springs to my mind is "Reaganesque," and I don't have higher praises for a politician in my vocabulary than that.

I won't post it here due to length, but you can click on this link to check it out for yourself. VERY powerful!

http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/09/22/rep-mike-pence-on-the-presidency-the-constitution-and-the-future-of-the-republic/

Quote from: Solar on November 21, 2010, 08:31:15 PM
This may be the first time in more than 40 years the MSM didn't pick our candidates, we did.
It is also the beginning of the end of liberalism as it is known today. They either move back to the right, or die as socialists/Marxists.

Either way, the Country is fed up with their bull shit.
I hope your sister as least in her early thirties, there is still hope for her. ::) ;)

Here's my greatest fear -- the liberals/progressives continue to become known as the socialists/Marxists they are, and they STILL get elected.

Barack Obama could fess up tomorrow and show everyone his Cuban birth certificate proving he's the illegitimate offspring of a weird affair between Fidel Castro and Imelda Marcos, which culminated in a fetus being implanted in the uterus of Eva Peron, and was delivered in a hospital in Argentina -- or Paraguay or Brazil -- by Josef Mengele. He could embrace his already-well-known associations with Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Van Jones and other known insurrectionists, and declare them to be his life-long friends and role models. He could go on Leno, drop his drawers, and take a steaming shit on the nearest copy of the King James Bible. And come 2012, he will still get 95% of black American voters to cast their ballots for four more years of the same.

No matter who runs against Obama in two years, we need to understand at least that simple fact. Black Americans -- about 12% of the electorate -- will vote for Obama NO MATTER WHAT.

THAT is what the Democrats have managed to wreak on us in the past two generations. THAT is how effective "big" government can be when it's directed -- no, focused -- on a given group of people. THAT is how the Democrats continue as a power party.

As long as we're throwing people's hats in the ring, check another memorable video of Chris Christ - Link. Sorry, can't figure out how to link to the video itself so say high to this education blog.

Tbone, the last election suggests pretty strongly that the ideas President Obama pushes aren't terribly popular. If you've got a better reason for the historical size of the Republican sweep then offer it up but I don't give a bit of credence to President Obama's excuse that they just didn't explain, in words simple enough for us stupid, ordinary people to understand, how wonderful their ideas are. I think we understood just fine and told him to take his ideas and put them where they'd make him walk funny.

As for who blacks will vote for, of course they'll vote for Obama.

There's no getting around identity politics and no arguing with identity politics. We feel more comfortable with people who look/sound/dress/eat like us. If it's any comfort Obama, more the many Democrats, understands that there are limits to what you can expect from identity politics. That's why he's been so relentless in pissing off the teacher's unions.

His Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is constantly running around the country making speeches about what good ideas charters and testing and teacher accountability are. The reason is because black voters are much more supportive of education reform - real, substantive education reform - then whites. The obvious conclusion is that Obama sees that the future of the Democratic Party - as a national party - is dependent on hanging onto the black vote. Getting along without the NEA would be tough but getting along without a virtual lock on the black vote would be impossible.

Quote from: Solar on November 21, 2010, 07:28:57 PM
I definitely like this guy, I really want to see him get more air time.
We definitely have people to choose from this time around.
Last time, the MSM chose McCain for us, thats what happens when you have a weak party.

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I like Bobby Jindal, but I just can't shake his very poor performance when  he gave the Republican response to Obama's state of the union address (when Obama disrespected the seated Justices of the Supreme Court) an Joe Miller called out "You Lie"!  I'm not saying that Jindal had ought to have called Obama a liar, he should have simply pointed out that the POTUS was not telling the truth! Jindal was far too meek and mild and accomodating to this LYING SCUMBAG SON OF A BITCH!

Quote from: tbone0106 on November 21, 2010, 09:27:49 PM
Here's my greatest fear -- the liberals/progressives continue to become known as the socialists/Marxists they are, and they STILL get elected.

Barack Obama could fess up tomorrow and show everyone his Cuban birth certificate proving he's the illegitimate offspring of a weird affair between Fidel Castro and Imelda Marcos, which culminated in a fetus being implanted in the uterus of Eva Peron, and was delivered in a hospital in Argentina -- or Paraguay or Brazil -- by Josef Mengele. He could embrace his already-well-known associations with Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Van Jones and other known insurrectionists, and declare them to be his life-long friends and role models. He could go on Leno, drop his drawers, and take a steaming shit on the nearest copy of the King James Bible. And come 2012, he will still get 95% of black American voters to cast their ballots for four more years of the same.

No matter who runs against Obama in two years, we need to understand at least that simple fact. Black Americans -- about 12% of the electorate -- will vote for Obama NO MATTER WHAT.

THAT is what the Democrats have managed to wreak on us in the past two generations. THAT is how effective "big" government can be when it's directed -- no, focused -- on a given group of people. THAT is how the Democrats continue as a power party.

Which can be a good thing.
A splintered Dim party is just what we want.
Marxists on the left, Blacks on the fence, and confused Independents on the Right, no matter who runs, their vote is split all to Hell.

I've been saying it for the last two years, the Dim party overstepped, they will be out of power for approx. the next 3 decades.
Assuming the GOP doesn't totally screw things up.

You all act like it's a big deal that black Americans will vote for Obama.  Black Americans historically OVERWHELMINGLY vote for the Democrat Presidential candidate (well over 90% of the time).

Then you have to factor in black voter turnout, which is certainly nowhere near the 12% of the total electorate turnout.  By the time 2012 gets here, the blacks will be pretty damn tired of Obama too.

Quote from: AmericanFlyer on November 22, 2010, 05:10:39 AM
You all act like it's a big deal that black Americans will vote for Obama.  Black Americans historically OVERWHELMINGLY vote for the Democrat Presidential candidate (well over 90% of the time).

Then you have to factor in black voter turnout, which is certainly nowhere near the 12% of the total electorate turnout.  By the time 2012 gets here, the blacks will be pretty damn tired of Obama too.

I think that George Bush got a historic 34% of the black vote (or something like that) by pandering to the black (and latino) communitees and providing more minority home ownership than any previous administration!  Instead of turning back the tide of irresponsible socialism, he decided to beat the Democrats at their own game and take credit for what they had been doing with ACORN, HUD and FANNY & FREDDIE!  It got him reelected, but we, the people, are still paying the price for what he went along with (just as his father went along with the Democrat's massive tax increase after he broke his pledge "Read My Lips; No New Taxes"!

   There are so many positioning themselves for a run its impossible to lean towards anyone yet...and too far out

Quote from: zip on November 22, 2010, 08:44:34 AM
   There are so many positioning themselves for a run its impossible to lean towards anyone yet...and too far out

I agree, and it's nice to have a choice for a change.
We've never had so many actual Conservatives to choose from, the GOP always offers up the RINO they want to succeed.

Quote from: zip on November 22, 2010, 08:44:34 AM
   There are so many positioning themselves for a run its impossible to lean towards anyone yet...and too far out

Agreed. Hillary says she isn't going to run, but then again she's been around Bubba too long so we all know what that claim is worth. Haley Barbour thinks it's his turn in the GOP limelight, Romney's tarnished but not out altogether, and there's always a Draft Palin/Rubio movement to spice up the menu.