Monday, November 23, 2009

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Robert Schlesinger

Jindal Embellished Katrina Story—Another Sign He's Not Ready for National Stage

March 02, 2009 04:05 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

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Larry of CA: Please Go Back On Your Meds

CHP has been notified.

Jindal or Palin?

Give me Bobby any day. (But not until he's 60 or so and has wised up enough to be a liberal.

RETIREMENT?

I am looking for a place that has very little human life and is away from people. It doesn't have to have the latest technologies. All of the places I have seen here are retirement places where there are alot of people.

I would rather not live in a place where the ambulance is fast and they have time to get my old tired heart that has been glued together too many times. I don't want them to have time to get it beating again for me.

Jindals people are idiots

The story jindal told was closer to the truth than the spin his people have put on it. The confusion about the story was what did Bobby mean by during Katrina.

For those of us affected by the storm During Katrina meant the entire time we were unable to go to our homes. The firs week after the storm was definitly during Katrina. Most people down here would say that Hurrican Rita hit during Katrina.

When we say during Katrina it could mean anytime after the storm hit until the end of 2005.

Jindals story was true, His communication people have been awful since the day he took office. His people regularly dont return phone calls to The Times Picayune or WWLTV the largest media outlets in the state.

Bobby is not ready for the National Stage, but I think he will make a very good candidate for the 2016 election. He will only be about 45 at that time.

More United States Aerospace Disasters

BY: Joran C Fan, Prophet Of Environment.

Since this a Thomas Jefferson Street blog about Louisiana. It is quite appropriate for me to talk about the Louisiana Purhase.

On February 24, 2009, The $278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory at 1:55 am at the the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard the Taurus XL rocket before falling back and crashed back to earth shortly after.

There were no passengers or astronauts in the rocket or satellite, it is great discouragement to the U. S. aerospace and defense industry. Although it was claim as a climate satellite, it was more than likely a spy satellite which belongs t the U. S. "Star War" program against China and Russia.

I guess my introduction of the Goddess of the Sky flying n top of a Pheonix is working well for the world. This is the fourth major aerospace disaster occurred in the U. S. this year in less than two months. (1) After the Continental crashes from Texas to Denvers was (2) The crash of the U. S. Airway Jetliner in the Hudson river cause by a flock of birds which is quite obviously an omen from the Pheonix Bird of the Goddess. (3) Then there were the fatal crash of another Pinnacle Airline falling in the Niageria Fall in Buffalo, NY on Friday the thirteen of February 2009 during Lunar New Year of the Ox or Water Buffalo with 49 deaths. (4) Item 4 on Fenruary 24, 2009 Tuesday of the crashing of the U. S. spy/climate satellite on the 4-stage rocket Taurus. All of you should know that "Taurus" is the Zodiac of the, what else, but the Ox again. The number "24" in Cantonese means "die easy" and it is usually the day when Cantonese avoid doing important tasks.

Quite obviously if the United States have read all my posts in in U. S. News and else where and consult with Myself, all their areospace disasters costing over a $ billion could be avoided. This reply also confirmed that Obama, with all those bad omens, is a very unlucky leader for the United States. I campaign previously against Obama all for the well beings of Americans and other people of the world because I could foresee that he will bring bad luck and unable to protect the U. S. These four aerospace disasters have more than confirmed my great Prophecies. Since the United States had damaged the Environment by slaughtering millions of American Buffalo or Bisons during the turn of the 20th Century or early 1900s on the Midwestern Praires. The Buffalo, Taurus, & Cow related disasters in this year of the Ox is ceratinly the revenge of the Environment to punish the Americans for their disregards of wildlife. It is hypocitical that the face of the criminal American President Thomas Jefferson who was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase & subsequent slaughter of the bisons and desruction of wilderness had been put on the same nickel coins with the bisons. The ghosts and spirits of the Bisons have lived on and are still alive. We should all take a moment to mourn their destruction now!

Bobby, Shame on You...

You're playin' loose and fast with the facts yourself. I checked out your links and a couple of other sources. Jindal was, in fact, in the room with Lee in the aftermath of Katrina ( you didn't suppose Lee was sending out small boats in the middle of the hurricane, did you?} - as he (Lee) recounted the story of the boats over the phone. After the sheriff hung up Jindal asked why he was so angry and offered to help.

Maybe a little "political twist and spin" but basically Jindal's story is closer to the truth than yours.

Further, I note we have a president who does nothing but make hyperbolic, ambiguous statements - He sometimes fibs too.... But I gotta say, he has a smooooth style - Even puts Slick Willie to shame.

Larry

Larry please shut the fk up. Stupid ass Republican.

Jindal didn't "embellish," he lied

Just keep telling the truth. It's lies that come back to haunt you.

Just keep blasting the Republicans

It's coming back to haunt you.

If you, a joke of a journalist, had done your job for the last 18 months we might have a qualified person in the White House. Oh, it's ok because he is "our guy"

I say we repeal the 1st Amendment, since you and your friends aren’t doing your jobs anyway.

Debate stop in the House – no press coverage

Talking about stopping the filibuster in the Senate – no coverage

Taking over private companies with taxpayer’s money – little to no coverage

If this had been President Bush the presses would never stop running, but he had an R behind his name so it’s ok.

Just keep blasting the Republicans

It's coming back to haunt you.

If you, a joke of a journalist, had done your job for the last 18 months we might have a qualified person in the White House. Oh, it's ok because he is "our guy"

I say we repeal the 1st Amendment, since you and your friends aren’t doing your jobs anyway.

Debate stop in the House – no press coverage

Talking about stopping the filibuster in the Senate – no coverage

Taking over private companies with taxpayer’s money – little to no coverage

If this had been President Bush the presses would never stop running, but he had an R behind his name so it’s ok.

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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