Lee on Nov 05 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008
As readers will know, I’m certainly no apologist for the social conservative movement in either its style or purposes. But it seems to me to be an awful injustice to lay at their feet the defeat of John McCain, in an election almost exclusively dominated by economic concerns:
If the GOP decides to go in the [...]
Lee on Aug 05 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web, Notes on the war
Rumors have it that Bobby Jindal will deliver the keynote address at the RNCC. Shlok Vaidya thinks the GOP intends to position Jindal for 2012, the way the Democrats managed Obama in 2004. Interesting and possible, although such things are rarely that well-planned. The Democratic view in 2004 wasn’t to position Obama for a White [...]
Lance on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Baton Rouge, Domestic Politics, Louisiana Politics, Media, Race
(cross posted at Risk and Return)
The most prominent Indian American politician in American history has now been sworn in as governor:
Bobby Jindal took the oath of office as Louisiana’s 55th governor at noon today, becoming the state’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction. Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican and Baton Rouge native, won the October 2007 primary [...]
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