‘Who has the intelligence?’: Jindal asks, in promoting himself for GOP nominee.
By Raif Karerat
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Aside from the fact that he’s languishing in 13th position among the 17 GOP candidates for the 2016 presidential race, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal — the first Indian American to make a bid for the White House — is adamant that he is the best qualified Republican to sit in the Oval Office and that he is surely on track to clinch the party’s nomination.
“I think after we get past this summer of silliness and insults, the voters are going to begin to look at who is prepared to do the job. Who has the intelligence, who has the courage, who has the experience? I believe I’m the candidate best able to do this job on the first day,” Jindal, 44, told ABC in an interview aired on Aug. 31.
After seemingly calling out Donald Trump, the GOP’s leading candidate, based on his vitriolic and confrontational style, the governor of Louisiana lauded his rival.
“Look I think I’m going to be the nominee. I think Donald Trump has done a great job tapping into the anger, the frustration that voters feel, not only with President Obama but with the Republican leadership as well,” he said.
Jindal also took time during the interview to slam the Democrats’ foremost candidate, Hillary Clinton, for using her private server and private email account when she was the U.S. Secretary of State.
“If any private in the military, other government official had handled classified information the way she is said to have handled, there would have been a court martial, there would have been even criminal prosecution. There would have certainly been consequences. She shouldn’t be above the law. There shouldn’t be a different set of rules for our elected leaders than for the rest of us,” Jindal said.
Finally, he reiterated his stance on hyphenated Americans that has caused untold numbers of Indian Americans to lambaste the politician on social media.
“It is time Americans de-hyphenated themselves from the country of origin and considered themselves as just Americans,” stated Jindal, who is a first generation Indian American born to immigrants. “We need to move away from hyphenated Americans. We’re not African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Indian-Americans, rich or poor Americans. We’re all Americans.”
“We don’t make people come here. If they want to come here, they should want to be Americans. Millions of people across this world want to come here. A smart immigration policy allows people to come here legally that makes our country stronger. That’s just common sense,” he added.
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To see him blatantly, repeatedly lie and represent all his failure as success – sociopath
Poor delusional Piyush … better than the Donald, better than Bush. First of all, that’s a pretty fucking low bar. And second, you can’t even clear that.