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Pinterest Mom posted:A Jindal run is going to be great for uncovering all the progressives who think it's funny to make fun of an Indian guy's birth name. See also Ted Cruz.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:04 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 04:48 |
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I don't think he's being mocked for having an Indian name per se, but rather for replacing it with a more "American" sounding one to get elected.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:06 |
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Dr. Tough posted:I don't think he's being mocked for having an Indian name per se, but rather for replacing it with a more "American" sounding one to get elected. He started going by "Bobby" when he was a kid.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:09 |
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The Warszawa posted:He started going by "Bobby" when he was a kid. Now that I've looked it up, it's even worse than I thought because he took name from a Brady Bunch character
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:12 |
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Dr. Tough posted:Now that I've looked it up, it's even worse than I thought because he took name from a Brady Bunch character Well, I mean I guess it isn't any different from someone from my generation asking to be called "Kramer" or "Ross" but still it being the Brady Bunch is kinda funny. Plus how does he not go with Greg? bobby was a little poo poo.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:23 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Well, I mean I guess it isn't any different from someone from my generation asking to be called "Kramer" or "Ross" but still it being the Brady Bunch is kinda funny. I knew brothers named Tom and Jerry after the cartoon because their Vietnamese names were harder for small town white people to understand. Eventually Tom switched over to Tim to avoid people noticing that they were named after cartoon characters. It's not all that shocking that Jindal went that route.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 20:26 |
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I've decide that its only racist if I capitalize it, ala "That drat Bobby PIYUSH Jindal."
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 21:00 |
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So let me guess, it's just Barack HUSSEIN Obama all over again?
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 21:31 |
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I don't know why anyone would pass on the opportunity to say "DAMMIT Bobby!" personally, but ymmv
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 21:39 |
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Fried Chicken posted:Well, I mean I guess it isn't any different from someone from my generation asking to be called "Kramer" or "Ross" but still it being the Brady Bunch is kinda funny. Jindal strikes me more as a Cousin Oliver, anyway.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 21:48 |
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Dr. Tough posted:Now that I've looked it up, it's even worse than I thought because he took name from a Brady Bunch character I know a guy who chose his English name because he liked the way his teacher wrote it on the blackboard in South Korea. Bringing up Piyush "Bobby" Jindal's first name is just as dumb as emphasizing Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 22:06 |
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I have moved Paul Ryan to the list of people who are not running.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 22:17 |
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The Warszawa posted:See also Ted Cruz. Making fun of Ted Cruz for his name is like making fun of Donald Trump for his education.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 22:19 |
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USNews.com reporting on the best of Mike Huckabee's folksy new campaign(?) book. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/01/08/the-best-of-mike-huckabees-book?int=a14709&int=a34c09 quote:Mike Huckabee's new book "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy" is packed with plentiful references to each of those four cultural staples. He's dangerous! He's a Reasonable Conservative who cares about the poor!
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 22:46 |
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costareports posted:According to several ppl who have spoken with Ann Romney in the last wk, she is encouraging Mitt to run. "All in," one friend says. I can't believe this is finally really happening.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:23 |
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We'll know its a lock once Tagg Romeny re-iterates his commitment to rush the stage and punch the democratic candidate.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:31 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:38 |
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How do you keep topping yourself, America. HOW.
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:40 |
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Delta-Wye posted:What exactly has Santorum accomlished? As far as I can tell, it seems like he's been doing nothing but losing elections and siring broken babies for nearly the last decade. I think he ran a really good candy desk when it was his turn. e: gently caress that, Mark Kirk ran it until this year and it had Jelly Belly. That trumps anything Santorum (or now Pat Toomey) can get from their home state
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:48 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:I can't believe this is finally really happening. Mitt Happens
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:49 |
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Seriously. Before Santorum, everyone kept lovely individually wrapped hard candies. He established the use of good stuff, like Hershey products. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Desk
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# ? Jan 12, 2015 23:52 |
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Oh man the Mitt train is going to get derailed hard by a certain other northeast governor. quote:CONCORD - George Pataki says he's "very strongly inclined to run" for the White House.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:05 |
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At this point it'll probably be easier to hold debates for the three republicans not running.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:40 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:At this point it'll probably be easier to hold debates for the three republicans not running. The RNC has said they'll bar candidates who run in unsanctioned debates from participating in sanctioned ones. It's possible that we'll end up with rival debate circuits with different sets of candidates.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:44 |
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Chamale posted:The RNC has said they'll bar candidates who run in unsanctioned debates from participating in sanctioned ones. It's possible that we'll end up with rival debate circuits with different sets of candidates. Reagan be praised!
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:46 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:We'll know its a lock once Tagg Romeny re-iterates his commitment to rush the stage and punch the democratic candidate. Please don't slander Taggart. That was Josh.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:50 |
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Chamale posted:The RNC has said they'll bar candidates who run in unsanctioned debates from participating in sanctioned ones. It's possible that we'll end up with rival debate circuits with different sets of candidates.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 00:56 |
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Rodatose posted:the republican candidate will be decided in the old fashioned way: by rising up the ranks of unsanctioned cockfighting circuits to get a shot at the title Surely you mean chicken boxing as cockfighting is illegal and inhumane.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:11 |
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Another wrinkle to consider: as part of the Veepstakes, Romney had potential running mates turn over records. So Mitt's got (binders full of) opposition research on Rubio and Pawlenty. Christie refused.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:18 |
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Joementum posted:Christie refused. He knew.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:32 |
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Joementum posted:Another wrinkle to consider: as part of the Veepstakes, Romney had potential running mates turn over records. So Mitt's got (binders full of) opposition research on Rubio and Pawlenty. Christie refused. pleaseohpleaseohplease
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:32 |
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i just want him not to run and a disaffected staffer link the whole thing
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:33 |
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Wait weren't all the "code names" for potential VP picks fish?
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:34 |
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mooyashi posted:Wait weren't all the "code names" for potential VP picks fish? Yup. Christie = Pufferfish Pawlenty = Lakefish Portman = Filet-o-Fish Rubio = Pescado Ryan = Fishconsin They kind of ran out of steam at the end there.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:35 |
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Has Pawlenty even shown any interest in running yet?
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:36 |
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Yeah nobody would be able to crack that code
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:38 |
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The fish codename stuff is one of the ways you can tell, absolutely and completely, that our lives are not real and we're in some kind of satirical story about politics in whatever the real world is actually like. Every time I read the word Fishconsin, I remember that United States political theater cannot possibly be anything but an actual stage play.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 02:05 |
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Pinterest Mom posted:I can't believe this is finally really happening. Pinterest Mom posted:Oh man the Mitt train is going to get derailed hard by a certain other northeast governor. The Cuomo effect is biting the GOP in the rear end hard and it is so. loving. glorious. I can't WAIT for 2016.
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 02:05 |
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Gen. Ripper posted:
"The Cuomo Effect"? What does he have to do with it besides losing to Pataki in 1994?
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# ? Jan 13, 2015 02:06 |
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more on pufferfish:quote:Ted Newton, managing Project Goldfish under Myers, had come into the vet liking Christie for his brashness and straight talk. Now, surveying the sum and substance of what the team was finding, Newton told his colleagues, If Christie had been in the nomination fight against us, we would have destroyed him—he wouldn’t be able to run for governor again. When you look below the surface, Newton said, it’s not pretty.
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