Governor gives him ‘worst president’ label at conservative D.C. event MICHELLE MILLHOLLON mmillhollon@theadvocate March 06, 2014 “It is no longer fair to say he (Carter) was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime. President Obama has proven me wrong.” Gov. bobby jindal, during the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., on Thursday Speaking to a conservative crowd in the Washington, D.C.-area Thursday, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s use of five words brought the specter of the segregationist South to his stinging criticism of the nation’s president. The governor used his 15-minute allotment at the Conservative Political Action Conference to continue his attack on President Barack Obama’s policies. Last week, he took the president to task about the economy and the Keystone XL pipeline. On Thursday, the military downsizing and food stamp funding were in the governor’s crosshairs. Jindal swept aside Richard Nixon’s resignation amid the Watergate scandal and Bill Clinton’s impeachment amid womanizing scandals to single out Obama as the worst president in his 42-year lifetime. He said even Democrat Jimmy Carter was a better president than Obama. “It is no longer fair to say he (Carter) was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime. President Obama has proven me wrong,” Jindal said. Then Jindal seemed to flip the calendar back to 1963, when then-Alabama Gov. George Wallace stationed himself between the door to the University of Alabama and two black students trying to register amid desegregation. Wallace eventually backed down. His segregationist stance became known as Stand in the Schoolhouse Door. Jindal didn’t mention Wallace Thursday by name, but his choice of words seemed pointed. He is at odds with the Obama administration over Louisiana’s voucher program, which uses taxpayer dollars to enroll children in troubled public schools in private schools. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder raised legal concerns about the voucher program’s impact on federal desegregation orders. The Jindal administration and the U.S. Justice Department continue to battle over the level of oversight that is needed to protect a 1975 federal court order that banned the state from taking action that supported racially discriminatory or segregated private schools. “We’ve got Eric Holder and the Department of Justice trying to stand in the schoolhouse door to prevent minority kids, low-income kids, kids who haven’t had access to a great education the chance to go to better schools. Over 90 percent of these kids are minority children. One hundred percent of these kids are in low-income families,” Jindal said.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:47:26 +0000
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