I mean say what you want, but the man had like an endless well of entertainment value.

I'm certain Rachel Maddow was 100% correct. his campaign was performance art. And it was glorious, in a "Directed by John Waters" kind of way.

He's on 2 AM stations simultaneously in my city! But not a single prog radio show on AM here any more.

but forgot it was about Cain.

Did anyone ever point out that "999" is the number of the beast stood on its head?

You're right: the guy was definitely entertaining in a Serial Mom kind of way. Wouldn't go so far as Pink Flamingos, but that's just me.

Thanks for these blasts from the (not too distant) past!

He has to go grubbing for money.

or Nikki Haley?

Insisting on "Piyush" is really no different from how Republicans call the president "Barry" or "Barack HUSSEIN Obama." Or how some posters here insisted on calling Chelsea Manning "he."

You don't have to like the guy - and there are few politicians who are less likeable - but c'mon, let's keep some decorum on our side.

otherwise, no.

He deserves to be called Piyush, and he's a big hypocrite to the nth order.

Thus why his trial over draft evaion is Clay v. united States, and not Ali vs. united States. I still call the man Muhammad Ali, don't you?

Piyush Jindal wants to go by Bobby, I'll call him Bobby. it's a very basic courtesy and it doesn't hurt to extend it even to people you detest.

I know many Bobby's and Piyush is no Bobby.

Do you even know where he got his Bobby nickname? He was a fan of the Brady Bunch.

It shows major disrespect to Robert F. Kennedy.

Seriously your argument is disjointed to the point of senselessness.

What you're doing is trying to use his ancestry to shame him. It's fucking racist and you need to stop. I don't care if he's ashamed of it or not, you should be above it as a progressive.

As I said, not any different from the right's insistence on using the "Hussein" in President Obama's name. He doesn't call himself "Barack Hussein," he calls himself "Barack." And if he wanted to be called "Barry" as he did when he was a younger man, then that's what he should be called. He doesn't, so people who insist on doing so are being disrespectful. Same with my other example. Chelsea Manning was born Bradley Manning, her chomosomes are (as far as we know) XY, and last i'd heard, was just beginning her transition. To refer to Chelsea Manning as "Bradley" or as "he" is disrespectful and denigrating.

You want to shit on Bobby Jindal, god knows he's given you plenty of ammo in his positions, policies, and statements. His name is not a valid issue. Just because he's ashamed of his heritage is no reason for you to try to use his heritage to shame him.

besides his name....

Gotta love the fact that he is over a billion in debt for Louisiana...

We've gotta have standards for ourselves, is all.

But he'll always be Piyush to me, but will call him Jindal to end all arguments.

I tell people to use a shortening if my full Spanish name because I hate when people butcher my full name because they can't say three simple English words.

For all the Spanish-speakers in the plant, he's Rodolfo. For the English-speakers, he's Rudy. He says call him Rudy, I call the guy Rudy, even though I have no problem saying "Rodolfo".

His grade school friends could have named him Bobby, or his kindergarten teacher, but the Brady Bunch works too. When a kid's first name makes him stand out in a way that causes snickers from other kids, a nickname is a wise choice.

I had a high school boyfriend whose first name was "Roosevelt, but my friends call me Mike."

Making a stink about it is as silly as birthers referring to the President as "Barry," which is a childhood nickname he dropped in his college years.

any less racist as fuck.

to better appeal to the racists who form his base?

not the same thing as the ones you mention.

Just because he is ashamed of his heritage, does not give you the right to use his heritage to try to shame him.

If he's ashamed of his Indian heritage, that is his problem, and perhaps his family's. No one else's. If he is, I see it as pretty damn sad, but not something to be used as a weapon against him for political points. When you use his given name to try to shame him, all you're doing is saying that he's right, it's shameful to be Indian-American. It doesn't help anything. it affirms his self-hate, it makes you look like a bigoted jerk, and it puts off a lot of other people.

If it's really impossible for you to call him by hte name he wants people to call him by, then maybe just stick with "Jindal."

lets see him object to those who are proud of being irish american or italian american . lets see him oppose parades/festivals etc for those groups.

and i'm of the same background as jindal . i don't say the same about nikki haley because she isn't trying to pass herself off as white while going after anyone of color the way jindal does.

Stupidity knows no racial boundaries, after all.

There are some really intelligent, forward thinking African-Americans who are Republicans. People with good minds but a different outlook.

There are times when the arrogance of the Democrats when it comes to our claims on various groups can be truly nauseating.

That's an oxymoron.

BTW, I am African-American. The point of my post was not to claim various groups for the Democratic Party.

The point of my post was to highlight the fact that Republicans are so incredibly racist that blacks have been driven away almost entirely.

Whether it's gun control or opposition to the ACA....Republican racism drives much of their opposition to sensible positions.

This country is 67% white, yet the conferences are made up entirely of white people.

who come somewhat close to forward-thinking on the R side are probably the "moderates", like Jon Huntsman (who believes in science) and this guy who I have a POSCI class with. My Republican classmate actually seems smart and level-headed when it comes to class discussions, and he said he preferred Huntsman over people like Carnival Cruz. My classmate appears to know a lot about what is going on with issues like the environment and voting rights, so it's baffling to hear him once say that he's a Republican.

Says good things about unions, shares my criticisms of corporate management and said to me (a black man), "I don't understand why black people vote for Democrats."

The guy says he votes Republican.

why your co-worker is Republican might be because he's one of those people who are paranoid about all guns being banned, the so-called "baby-killers" of the Left, or maybe even "the Gay Agenda". Issues like those might be more important to him than union rights and corporate management.
On a side note, it always makes me sick seeing that line where they tell us that we should vote Republican. They usually make some tired case based on how the parties used to be decades ago, always ignoring the shift on the spectrum between them in the mid-20th century.

Name one. Because the Black Republicans are usually desperate to prove they are "a good 'un" and therefore more insane than the rankin file.

Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, Allen West, Ben Carson....

Sorry.

I await your one line "oh, ok" sarcasm.

... guilt by association.

... that comment would have earned you a vacation.

DU needs the traffic, so homophobia is given a wink.

sheesh, i refer to michael steele a former head of the republican party.
that's pretty low to accuse me of such. just shows me more about you.

he appears on chris matthews msnbc all of the time.

Just kidding. plus like, a million.

Easy, champ. You'll out yourself.

Washinton Post: not making that up.

ugh

drink orders.

Looks like old Mitty struck quite a chord with these women.

Just perfect.

"Boondocks", or perhaps Clarence Thomas

and the guy on the far left, though not politically, is Raffi Williams, son of Juan Williams.

who want to go back to the segregated 50s when they could easily pretend that nobody else was here.

They're on their way out as the main power bloc in this country and it scares them to death.

Right wingers know that they've got to act fast, or else the Republican Party loses the PoC and secular vote.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/02/26/jamila-bey-at-cpac/

She repeatedly calls herself a conservative.

what would make a black person or a gay person identify as "Republican" but at the same time, I can respect their choice to do so. I surely won't pull out "Uncle Tom" or "Traitor" when I come across a conservative black or gay person. It's just their viewpoint on politics.