McCain VP short-lister Bobby Jindal's exorcist work

Mittmentum!

Hmmm....  A c*ck sucker on the one hand and a demon caster on the other, huh?

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

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by: Sportin' Life @ Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 22:05:54 PM CDT

yummiliscious.

who will he think of next?

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 22:13:15 PM CDT

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Well

Fred Phelps is always in teh newz and not too busy...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:51:52 AM CDT

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Practicing medicine without a license...

If he thinks he's curing cancer, then he has been practicing medicine without a license and needs to be criminally charged.

No, I'm not joking.  Germany kicked Earnest Angley out of their fine country after charging him with the same crime for performing faith "healings".  Progressive countries recognize these actions for what they are - crimes against the gullible.

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by: Storm @ Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 22:08:00 PM CDT

So who says

the US is a progressive country?  In this benighted society, you can get away with anything--anything--as long as you claim you're doing it for Jesus.  And the media almost always goes along with it (unless you happen to be Obama's pastor, that is).  I'm guessing the hard-core Catholics and fundies will love Jindal for this.  That may even be why he's being given serious consideration for a spot on the ticket.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 09:16:01 AM CDT

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Exorcist

Hmmm.... 1994.... seems to me that was 14 years ago????? In 1994 I was married, living in San Diego and proudly fighting against the San Diego Mennonite church becoming an open and inclusive congregation.   Today... 14 years later... I am an openly out gay man with three children and I no longer believe that God has condemned me to hell. In 1994 I would have believed in exorcisms.... today... nope.   A lot of change is possible in that time.... the question is does he still believe this stuff?  

We can do better than this... especially since a lot of our community probably was doing bizarre things at one point or another in their lives.  (or maybe still doing bizarre things? : )    

Pax
Jim

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by: jr42a @ Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 22:20:37 PM CDT

A fair point, Jim.

If he repudiates his previous exploits (which included holding a woman against her will, i might add), please let us know!

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 23:58:26 PM CDT

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People change - you make a valid point

But even if he still believes in exorcism, I am not sure it will hurt him.  Heck, a running mate with an experience with exorcism might solidify evangelical support for McCain.

But I think Jindal, who just turned 37 (HB Bobby!), is too young for McCain.  It would only make John look so much older, and McCain doesn't need that.

If you want allies, you have to be an ally.

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by: dale @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 00:05:53 AM CDT

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Oops I thoght you said Eroticism

Heck, a running mate with an experience with exorcism eroticism might solidify harden evangelical support for McCain.

 

 Than again that might help McCain too.  Peter the Veep anyone?

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 00:44:07 AM CDT

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They could wear

matching leather outfits- but which one gets the hood and which one the whip?

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:53:05 AM CDT

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I have just one word for that image

Ewww.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 06:06:57 AM CDT

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Sorry

my sincere apologies to all! Forgot it's breakfast time...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 06:10:27 AM CDT

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You could market it

as a weight loss strategy

:-)

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 07:42:39 AM CDT

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Uh....

...McCain's gonna be dead by 2012.

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by: GraciesDaddy @ Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 13:01:04 PM CST

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Jindal still belongs to the same conservative branch of Roman

Catholic Church. This suggests that he hasn't changed. Believe me, some of these more-Catholic-than-the-Pope types are very very superstitious. We had one at work who shook holy water at her colleagues who didn't back her up (she was under investigation for poor quality work affecting patient care and later was fired). These are NOT normal Catholics.

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by: NancyP @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 09:52:12 AM CDT

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Is it just me,

or does this guy look strikingly similar to Alfred E. Neuman?

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by: Naperville Mom @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 02:15:21 AM CDT

Neuman

ran a failed campaign back in 2004... here's his site!

http://hypocrisytoday.com/alfr...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:55:10 AM CDT

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Hasn't he been in the White House for the last 8 years?

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 09:18:51 AM CDT

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Perfect choice for McCain

You're all missing the obvious--he can help cast out the Spirit of Contention whenever it takes root in his running mate.  Oh, and the Spirit of Sarcasm, and the Spirit of Rage, and the Spirit of Fuck You-ism, and the Spirit of Condescension, and other assorted demons plaguing McCain. Some people have live-in massage therapists, others exorcists.
It's called planning ahead.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:11:45 AM CDT

But is he compatible

Can the walking dead really trust an exorcist in a position that will benefit from the removal of said zombie?

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

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by: belfrieboi @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 09:31:31 AM CDT

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If he is really capable of exorcising demons...

maybe he can get Cheney out of office?  Then I'd believe him

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.

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by: Snooky Ookums @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:52:16 AM CDT

Yes, such skills might come in handy...

No kidding though, it may read as weird, but there's a big chunk of Catholics and non-denominational evangelicals that would be pleased as punch about this kind of religious background.  

The question for McCain seems to be becoming, who is he willing to lop off from his support base - the religious right or the more traditional conservatives who would find this piece of information frightening?  

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by: Troy @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 08:21:38 AM CDT

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You may not realize that what Jindal did is strictly forbidden to Catholic laity.

The Catholic Church takes the possibility of demonic possession very seriously, albeit very rare, and because of centuries-long experience that dabbling by the inexperienced (whoever [sic] well intentioned they may be)  in this area is rather disastrous, decrees the following in Canon 1172 of the Code of Canon Law (1983):
Can. 1172: §1  No one may lawfully exorcise the possessed without the special and express permission of the local Ordinary.
§2  This permission is to be granted by the local Ordinary only to a priest who is endowed with piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life.

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by: oddjob @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 22:51:44 PM CDT

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Don't discount his skin color - he's *almost* black

For the GOP any WOG will do - imagine the conversations in the smoke filled back room..."We can beat this racist image without actually picking a black guy...see? We pick a dark skinned Indian, Christian guy who picked the name 'Bobby' from that all American show "The Brady Bunch". That should get us a bunch of the guilt votes without risk - at least he's not a ******"

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.

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by: Snooky Ookums @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 10:50:51 AM CDT

The whole state is in an uproar...

   that Jindal ran on a platform of Ethics Reform and now the legislature is voting themselves a pay raise, which has everyone furious here and the Governor says the raise "is over the top", too much,, but he says he won't veto it. Radio talk shows were a buzz tonight. He's up agains the wall down here with these old croonies and crooks.

   A three term Governor is in prison, with, I think, there's so many to remember, two commissioners of insurance. A state Senator is under a 14 count indictment along with this brother and others of his family ( stealing from phoney charity organizations they set up and took the money, alledgedly) another state Senator, Clea Fields was photograhped taking a bribe and stuffing money in a bag years ago. The brother of the former Mayor of New Orleans is under indictment or he just went to prison recently,(somebody did anyway) oh I can't recall them all, it's just an ongoing fiasco of theives here with our government. It never stops. Lets see the DA had to resign recently and in the past and the present Mayor of New Orleans has been found, yesterday it was discovered, to have charged 6,500.00 on restaurant bills and even charged a wedding reception or an anniversity party for somebody on the City's credit card.. 

   You can't keep up with it. It's ridiculous.   

   So now everybody is saying it's "business as usual with the politicians".

It's that Nawlins' VooDoo magic and I think somebody may need to perform an exorcism on Jindal soon.

I'd rather be a lion for one day, than a sheep for my entire life.

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by: PhyllisMs @ Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 23:35:54 PM CDT

He's colored, right?

Br'er Bear's mad scramble to beat the Republican bushes to find a non melanin challenged representative. I love to see the shoe on the other foot.

Democrats were busy in the Nineties responding to the Repubs claim to family values and faith with "Me Too". Now, Republicans are desperate to Kodachrome their party's negatives since the Republican Black Caucus stopped meeting after it's sole member J.C. Watts retired.

But for Gawd's sake, Bobby Jindal? What does it say, when you are seriously considering a politician from a state with the highest percentage per capita of presently and former elected officials under investigation, under indictment and incarcerated in Federal prison?

But seriously, can you see those two on the campaign trail? Both casually dressed at an outdoor event, McCain would look like a retired pro golfer with his caddy at an Scotsdale golf course.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S.

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by: txwhtboy @ Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 03:03:04 AM CDT