Before the body is even cold

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Do you still have ANY doubt as to how this Presidential race is going to end in a few weeks? I can point you to at least one person who is betting on an Obama victory [via Politico]:

The key word that should grab your attention in the flyer above is “Iowa,” the location of Jindal’s fundraiser. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has just begun campaigning for the Republican nomination in 2012. The other thing to note are the endorsements in the bottom left. I had planned on writing this post all week (even before seeing this flyer) based on some circumstantial evidence I had turned up. This just ended any doubt.

Jindal will speak at the Iowa Family Policy Center’s “Celebrating the Family” banquet in suburban Des Moines on November 22nd, according to his spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers. While in the state, he also may to go to Cedar Rapids to see some of those areas impacted by the summer floods. Jindal, of course, has led his state’s recovery from Katrina since being elected in 2007.

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p>It will be Jindal’s first visit to Iowa, Sellers said. [Link]

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p>Earlier this week I took note of the fact that Jindal went near the Florida-LSU game in Florida. Not to the game mind you, just to a pre-game tailgate fundraiser (for his own future campaigns). He was also supposedly there to stump for McCain…if he had time. That’s right, the Governor of Louisiana was raising money in the battleground state of Florida (where he also got a chance to size up Charlie Crist, who will probably be one of his rivals in 2012).

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p>Next, this past Monday Jindal showed up right here in Houston:

Pete Olson has won the support of Louisiana’s governor in his bid to unseat Nick Lampson. Lampson is running for re-election in Texas’ 22nd Congressional district. Bobby Jindal met with Olson in Houston on Monday.

“I know he’s going to be a great Congressman,” Jindal says. “I did serve in Congress and saw that Washington’s broken. Washington’s a city where folks wake up every day and think of themselves as democrats or republicans first. Pete isn’t like that. He was born to serve his country.” [Link]

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p>Stumping for down-ballot candidates is a great way to have future field lieutenants in place should they win.

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p>This brings up the increasingly real possibility that in 2012 the two nominees vying to be POTUS might be Barack Hussein Obama and Piyush Bobby Jindal. Two men of color with “funny names” born to immigrant fathers in a contest that would paint America as the greatest meritocracy in the world.

Oh, by the way, I already tried to buy it with no luck. www.bobbyjindal2012.com is taken.

59 thoughts on “Before the body is even cold”

  1. jindal has never even been to india. palin doesn’t have a passport. i don’t get people who don’t travel.

  2. this probably isn’t relevant but jindal is sooo skinny. it’s off putting. he needs to get some proper punjabi food instead of relying on nutritionless white bread or whatever it is americans in the south eat.

  3. mccain looks so old and frail. i am almost tempted to feel sorry for him. he looks like someone should get him a cup of tea and a blanket.

  5. Americans will have a choice between 2 colored guys. What’s the lesser of two evils for them: a brown or a black. I’d say that Americans would pick a brown. But I could be wrong.

  6. i in my personal opinion, many ordinary black people would not vote for a brown person. sorry to sound classist but the ones who have had exposure and have been to good universities are more open minded but the vast majority of the black population are not that all embracing.

  7. khoofia: Hmmm. Does Bhabi make good parathas? Because we may be moving in if this election goes “right.” And Sue? You caught me. I hold a deep prejudice against male lesbians.

    And did I read that someone said Jindalbhai lacks Palin’s sex appeal? Did you guys see him address the press after the last hurricane in New Orleans. SEXEEE.

  8. 58 · Faiqa said

    And did I read that someone said Jindalbhai lacks Palin’s sex appeal

    I am guessing you won’t see a JindalDude movement…

    Mr. McLain wore a “Proud to be voting for a hot chick” button
    “You tell ’em baby,” a man yelled out at a rally Wednesday night on a high school football field in Salem, N.H.
    “Marry me, Sarah,” a man implored in Weirs Beach, N.H.

    Apparently, base republicans vote with their head. At least one of them.

    “She’s beautiful,” said a man wearing a John Deere T-shirt in Weirs Beach. “I came here to look at her,” he said, and his admiration for Ms. Palin’s appearance became more and more animated.

  9. Re: I came here to look at her, she’s beautiful, etc…

    Either that or the GOP has gotten down to ‘slim pickins’ for hot chicks. (Sigh, disgusted with myself for even having this conversation.)