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Jindal flip flops himself out of the veep position

By: Karthik :+: Under: Brown in America, Jindal, Politics
On: ⋅ July 1, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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A long time ago, a friend of mine, who wanted to get into politics quoted her dad. He said something along the lines of “Never do drugs, because when you decide you want to be a senator, that will come to bite you”.

Every politician knows this, well every American politician knows this and if you ever have dreams of signing a few bills when the President is getting his colonoscopy, then you better be extra careful. Because every thing you do will fall under the radar. When you are in consideration, you triple check everything you do.

But it looks like Bobby did not get the memo, that or he was inspired by John Kerry to pull off a move after the master flip flopper.

Here is what unfolded according to LA Times blog.

So to recap, first Jindal promised to stop the pay raise, then told legislators he wouldn’t stop the pay raise, then — looking at his own political mortality — reversed direction again and stopped the pay raise. Jindal fell on the sword Monday, thanking “the people for their voice and their attention” — that would be the recall petition — and added: “The voters have demanded change. … I made a mistake by staying out of it.”

I guess it is the season for potential candidates to screw up their possibilities of being the second most powerful person in the world.

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