Who Is Bobby Jindal?
My friend Ben Domenech is an excellent writer and a big fan of Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Congressman now running against the Louisiana Democratic Machine to become Governor and actually save the state.
Ben wrote an awesome profile of Jindal that you can read here. It’s long, but well worth your time.
You Must Read These
Friends, I realize this is not related to Georgia or to politics, but you must go here. GO THERE NOWWWWW!!!!
You’ll thank me.
Oh, and the El Nino answer (go there to know what I’m talking about), you really, really need to read the whole thing, just don’t be drinking coffee while doing so. It’s hard to read at that link, so go here and scroll down to numbered paragraph 3.
To The Dobson Haters: Suck It Up
Part of me thinks I should not put this on the front page, but what the heck.
Some of you are out bashing James Dobson for his criticism of Fred Thompson not being a Christian. You know, if the election were held tomorrow, I’d be voting for Mitt Romney. But if Fred were on the ballot, I and a lot of my friends would be like, “Mitt who?” I’m a Fred Thompson guy, but until he enters, I’m voting for Mitt, though I’ve ceased considering myself a Mitt guy.
But you people who are so outraged by James Dobson need to suck it up and get over it. Your outrage over Dobson goes directly to my frustration with Hugh Hewitt — instead of dealing with the issue, you want to make the issue out of bounds. Folks, that is what the left does, not what the right does. When the left wants to keep something out of bounds, it declares you a bigot in some way for dealing with the subject. Apparently now, when someone brings up a Presidential candidate’s faith, you are also a bigot.
Let me put it to you very plainly and you can disagree all you want and you’ll still be wrong — some people have different values and place different emphasis on things than you and me. And they, just like you and me, are entitled to their opinion. And sometimes they have bigger microphones than you or me, but they are still entitled to their opinion.
Now Hugh thinks Al Mohler, James Dobson, and I are religious bigots. The first two for not being comfortable with Romney because of his faith and me because I don’t have a problem with their lack of comfort and their willingness to discuss it (yeah, yeah, I know, Hugh says he doesn’t think that about those two people, but he’s just selectively excluding them from his very general category that they’d fall into, but for his exception to prove his silly rule of bigotry). The reason Mohler, Dobson, and so many evangelicals are bigots in Hugh Hewitt’s eyes and in the eyes of others, and the reason some of you are so frustrated with Dobson today, is because Dobson is a Christian first, a conservative second, and a partisan third.
Dobson wants a Christian to be his nominee and he, like me, is really frustrated that so many of the candidates in the race are Christian in name only. And I’m sure he is also frustrated that one of the front runners is not even a Christian. Some of you, I realize, are hitting the brakes here. Yeah, yeah, I know Fred was baptized, Rudy and Sam are Catholic, etc. This goes to the heart of the problem that so many evangelicals have — there are lots of people wanting to call themselves Christians who are not actually Christ followers. “Christian” is the acceptable terminology for a secular world. Lots of people say they are, but there are actually not as many who actually, you know, follow Christ.
I’m not going to start a theological debate here, and I think Dobson can defend himself, but the key difference between a nominal Christian and a Christ following Christian, i.e. a real Christian, is that the former shows his colors by the inactive pursuit of his faith and the latter shows his colors by the active pursuit of his faith. Fred Thompson, I think Dobson is suggesting, falls into the former category. I haven’t paid attention enough to know whether Fred does or does not follow Christ, though as others have said, if that is the case it’d probably put Fred on par with Ronald Reagan.
Sure, you have the right to be angry with Dobson expressing his opinion. But a lot of the outrage I’ve heard has been directed at Dobson for not pulling for the team, whereby the team is the GOP. Folks, James Dobson is on Christ’s team. All others are incidental to that cause. You may not like it, but then again I really doubt James Dobson is too worried about your partisan outrage. And I’m right there with him, I don’t care about your outrage over James Dobson speaking faithfully about faith, but I’d still vote for Fred.
State Memorial Registry
One of the quirkiest bills filed this year passed the Senate with no opposition late Tuesday evening.
The original version of Senate Bill 191 would have barred the state from naming anything in honor of Senate Minority Leader Robert Brown (D-Macon), who introduced the legislation. Brown said serving his constituents is enough of an honor.
By the way, I hear Robert Brown might just decide to not run for Mayor of Macon because a group of black leaders in Macon voted on who they’d support and less than half said they’d support Robert Brown. This group, called the Cotton Street Mafia, is composed of many of the black leaders in Macon and controls black politics in Macon.
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I’m actually in favor of this idea and I hope City Council will come around to it. It’s counter-intuitive for me, I know, to favor the City of Macon spending $135,000.00 a year on a private company to grow our airport, but I really think it would be money well spent.
I’m familiar with TBI Airport Management and I think they would do a much better job than the city has.
Macon actually has a good airport facility. There is no reason why we should not have a Southwest hub at the Macon Airport. I think people would flock to that. Right now, to get Southwest, you have to make the 5 hour trip to Macon to Birmingham by car.
I understand the difficulty in getting up money for this, but I think the long term benefit, and future financial revenue stream that could be generated would be well worth the money up front.
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Too Funny
Some of you will be offended.
Hacking John McCain
Poor John McCain. Maybe it’s because he is old. He might actually buy Ted Steven’s description of the internet as “a series of tubes.” He clearly does not know how to place nice with the internet. The latest bout of ignorance on parade involves his MySpace Page.
The template he used was created by Mike Davidson, a talented guy who knows his internet. He’s a co-founder of Newsvine.com. Well, not only did McCain take the template, but he also used Mike’s graphics without permission. Mike, who inspired the title of this post, decided to retaliate. Below is the graphic that, for a short time, appeared on John McCain’s MySpace page.
You almost feel sorry for McCain. Almost.
I Hope Hugh Hewitt Realizes I’m Not A Religious Bigot
I do hope Hugh Hewitt now realizes I’m not some sort of religious bigot. I wrote a review of Hugh’s new book on Romney, which you can read here. Hugh took serious exception to one passage, which you can read about here. I was on his show tonight to talk about it and I think we agreed while still disagreeing about some of the fundamentals. Hugh wants some bright lines I’m not prepared to give.
Here’s where things apparently got controversial. Read more
Never Heard of Him
Someone else wants to run for Mayor of Macon as a Repubilcan. That’s funny. I’ve never heard of him and we had our county convention on Saturday and I don’t recall him being there.
A second Republican says he will enter the Macon mayoral race.Local businessman David Cousino met with residents in Mattie Hubbard Jones Park on Sunday afternoon to announce his plans. In a telephone interview Sunday evening, Cousino said he wants to get rid of the arguing and bickering among current elected officials and prod them to work together.
“My plans are to basically streamline the city,” he said.