Who is

[james_davis_nicoll]

The least Anglophone plausible candidate for the American Presidency? Accents don't count.

A potential POTUS who grew up speaking Spanish doesn't seem impossible. Or Cajun. And child-of-immigrants potentially offers any language on Earth as their milk-tongue.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar and Raj Jindal, who came to the United States as immigrants from Punjab, India, six months before he was born.

Huh.

Don't Republicans think life begins at conception? And Jindal was not conceived in the US, as far as I can tell.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

What? You expect consistent, or logical, ethics from Republicans?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I am shocked that you suggest otherwise. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-filmmaker-dsouza-resigns-from-ny-evangelical-college-over-relationship-with-woman/2012/10/18/bc3a2dee-194a-11e2-ad4a-e5a958b60a1e_story.html)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Because racism is totally okay, but adultery is bad.

(Fred Clark had a related post about how racism is totally okay, but feminism is beyond the pale, today)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but the Constitution is one of those old-fashioned, fuddy-duddy institutions that believes life begins at birth. Hence the requirement for a "native-born citizen" rather than a "native-conceived citizen".

There are other fuddy-duddy institutions like birthdays (rather than conception days) and being supposedly allowed to vote at "18 years of age" when you actually have to wait until you've been alive roughly 18 3/4 years.

Harumph!

Nich