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It sometimes seems as if Republicans haven't updated their talking points in a very long while.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has endorsed Mitt Romney and is sometimes mentioned as a potential running mate, attacked President Obama on Tuesday and defended Romney's record in business.
"President Obama hasn't run anything before he was elected President of the United States," Jindal said on Fox News's America's Newsroom. "Never ran a state, never a business, never ran a lemonade stand."
This is a pretty standard criticism for any presidential candidate whose background is legislative work. Recent major-party nominees like John McCain, John Kerry, and Bob Dole -- none of whom served as a governor or business leader -- faced similar critiques.
But what Jindal lacks is a calendar -- these criticisms of Obama's record were made four years ago. Since early 2009, he's been president of the United States during a time of foreign and domestic crises. Obama may not have led a state or a business before getting elected, but he led a nation after getting elected.
Like him or not, Obama's experience with lemonade stands isn't nearly as relevant in 2012 as his experience as Commander in Chief during a time of war. So what on earth is Jindal talking about?
Perhaps Republicans are feeling a little defensive about the fact that they're nominating the least-experienced major-party presidential nominee in more than 70 years, and if elected, Mitt Romney would be the least experienced president in 100 years.
But defensive or not, the GOP should try to remember it's running against a sitting president, not a sitting senator.
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"I'm rubber. You're glue." rears its ugly head again.
His statement doesn't even deserve a response. All I have to say is that the Republican party sure has lowered their standards. He cannot even spell Lemonade correctly. I wouldn't drink it because it is probably made from artificial lemon flavor. Much like the hair on top of his head. I wonder how much that suit cost? If we're lucky the paint was still wet from his fictitious white picket fence. Too bad about The American Dream, this man stole part of it.
Artificial lemon flavor? Probably made from whatever chemicals all those refineries dump into the Mississippi River throughout Bobby Jindal's state.
Jindal is a Jackass. His debut as rebuttal to the SOTU address, as a matter of fact, his participation in a Republican rube-uttal to the SOTU address made him a laughing stock. I guess he's still there, and he's still sore..
The juvenile nature of the whining that Republican Right-Wingers engage in so much these days is absolutely unbelievable.
And by the way, Ronald Regan was an actor, not a businessman. He is listed as an ' Actor and Broadcaster ' ! Put that in your pipe and smoke it !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_occupation
Also from four years go:
"A community organizer is soooorrrta like a small town mayor. . ."
Bobby Jindal needs to focus on the things that really mean something to him, like the senior prom and his upcoming SAT test.
they're re-running the 2008 election...
and how'd that work out for them?
Pretty much this, yeah. They handwave away Obama's accomplishments during his Presidency then claim he has no experience running anything.
And of course, their sheeple will buy it. Hell, they already have bought it.
You call what this President has done this past 3 plus years as "leading" hardly...dividing..yes
We know where the dividing is coming from, and that is the republican party whose ONLY objective over the last 3 plus years has been to make Obama a one term president - and they've proven it with the unprecedented obstruction to EVERYTHING, even things they supported up until the time they voted no on it.
Well, politics for the GOP is like four-square for a fourth grader. Those points previously scored don't really count 'cuz someone called "do-over"!
Jindal - go back to Louisiana and at least pretend to help the residents living there...
The fact you fail to see the significance or correlation of real world experience verses theoretical application of economic theory does not surprise me. In an over regulated high taxation economy where even running a child's lemonade stand is seen as illegal, it should come as no surprise we are having significant problems attracting capital and private sector confidence necessary to get the American economic engine firing again. However, that is what real world experience tells me. If you had any, you'd be critical as well.
Excuse me, but Obama setting records for voting absent and abstain is not experience. He certainly never met a payroll or produced something of value. Even one of his books is apparently ghost written. It's fair to say even Sarah Palin had more executive experience than Obama
Her "experience" as mayor of Wasilla was letting the town end up with a big meth problem.
David J. Lynch at Bloomberg.com notes:
George W. Bush was the first president with a master’s in business administration. His father made a fortune in oil before entering politics. In their pre-Oval Office days, Jimmy Carter ran a peanut farm and warehouse and Herbert Hoover was a wealthy mining executive and financier.
Of that group, only George W. Bush was re-elected.
“Our entire system of government is meant to preclude models and skills used in the corporate world, which may be why presidents with business experience are not our most successful presidents,” says Barbara Perry, a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-15/romney-runs-against-history-in-touting-ceo-credentials.html
I do believe I have come to the conclusion that bobby Jindal is a Fu#king idiot
I wonder if he's learned anything about volcanoes since his lamebrained response to the SOTU address.
They're trotting out Jeremiah Wright and trying to resurrect the birth certificate too.
Let 'em.
It didn't work four years ago, and it won't now.
Recently this argument that "President Obama hasn't run anything before he was elected President of the United States" has been surfacing again. Iam not sure what message Jindal is trying to convey. If he is saying that because Romney ran a business qualifies him to be the president it is a weak, specious argument. We are not "hiring" someone to run a business, we are electing the person best qualified to govern.
Mitt Romney seems to be only interested in the "title" but not the work that goes along with it. He is not prepared; he has not bothered to study foreign policy.
Can you imagine him talking to foreign leaders. Can you imagine him referring to Russia as the Soviet Union! For heavens sakes he has been running for president for 6 - 7 years, you'd think he would have known that! But he doesn't!
Romney may have been part of the business world, but he does not know how the economy works. He knows how to make a profit, but he does not know how to make people's lives better. Romney says he knows how to create jobs, but as CEO he destroyed jobs& as a 1-term governor Massachusetts lost jobs.
Romney may think he can wait until he is in office to form a coherent foreign policy, but I doubt seriously anyone else would agree. Because when that phone rings at 3:00 AM & no one answers ... ?
The presidency is not a job or a title; it is a commitment to the American people. The economy is not a for-profit business. People's lives, in every sense of the word, are at stake. Romney wants the "title," but not the commitment (to the 99%).
Jindal can say he want ever he wants about President Obama, but it will not change the facts that President Obama is qualified, committed to all Americans and he has answered the 3:00 AM calls.
It's just the way the Republicans work now. They love to win elections in government, they just don't like to be responsible for actually governing anything.
Let's see here...
Mitt Romney ran a vulture capitalist company that killed businesses and laid off workers to make themselves more money.
Obama has been running and improving the most powerful nation on the planet during a time of economic turmoil and hostilities abroad for the past 4 years.
I wonder which one of them is more qualified to be President...
Jindal will answer you right after he finishes learning about volcanoes.
Bobby Jindal? Is this guy STILL around? Seriously, Loozeeanna elects some of the biggest embarrassments: Jindal, Vitter, etc.
Jindal is doing more than any other individual to give Indian-Americans a bad name (although Nikki Haley is doing her part also).
Well, that just sealed their fate.
Jindal doesn't seem to realize something - Barack Obama has been PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for the past 3 years. We aren't in 2008 anymore when he was only a Senator. Obama now has a lot more experience doing a lot more things domestically and internationally than Mitt Romney has done. He doesn't seem to realize that in life we always look at what someone's CURRENT level of experience is, not whether or not they had experience in some other period of time.