Witches and Demons and Republicans…… Oh My!
25 02 2009
I know that there are many Republicans out there, who think that Sarah Palin is a complete “whack job” (to quote a source in the McCain campaign). I know this because I just had dinner with one of them the other night. My impression was that she voted for Obama, almost out of desperation, because she wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing Sarah Palin was a heartbeat away from the presidency.
I’m sure many of those people watched Governor Bobby Jindal’s response to Obama’s speech tonight hoping that there was, indeed, and up and coming young Republican that wasn’t….well….embarrassing. His underwhelming performance was more than a little bit “me me me” and quite devoid on actual policy. It was a pretty obvious opening act to his 2012 campaign. And, he didn’t mention veterans. And he mocked volcano preparedness (was that just to tick off the land of Palin?) And he tried to use Hurricaine Katrina as a Republican talking point, and that story may in fact be a lie. And he didn’t really exude sincerity.
OK, let’s face it. That speech was pretty damn bad. But these people are desperate for SOMEone. And he’s still a relief from the whiny, hand-wringing, gun totin’, winkin’, cookie bakin’, spotlight hoggin’ Wasilla gal with the crazy witch hunting pastor. You remember that guy, right? Pastor Muthee from Africa (which is a continent by the way, not a country) who came to fame and fortune by driving a witch, menacingly named “Mama Jane” from a village, after killing the demon in the form of a python she kept as a pet. The one who flew multiple times to Wasilla and prayed the witches away from Sarah Palin, while she stood at the altar with arms extended and palms toward heaven. Then he asked Wasillans to pray that God would take over the banks and the schools and the businesses and the minds of the little children, and of course, the government. Still don’t remember him? Here’s a reminder.
2:57 – First mention of Sarah
5:00 – We need God to ‘take over the education system.’
5:27 – We need God to ‘take over the media’ and Hollywood itself.
6:08 – We need the government run by born-again Christians.
6:58 – Praying for Sarah to become governor (Doesn’t this impact their tax-exempt status? Anyone?)
7:12 – Sarah herself enters and is “prayed upon”.
8:38 – Another witchcraft reference.
Doesn’t it seem even weirder now than it did back in October?
So, yeah. Those Republicans I mention, are looking long and hard at Jindal. After last night’s performance, they may not be dancing in the streets, but at least he’s not the star of that video clip above.
Not so fast, my disenchanted conservative friends.
This came to my attention, and made me start to wonder what exactly is IN that red Kool-Aid? I don’t believe all Republicans have imbibed, mind you. But this has just got to make you wonder.
Let’s wind the Bobby Jindal time machine back to 1994, when he wrote an article entitled…are you ready? Are you sitting down? “Beating a Demon: Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare.”
No, this was not some term paper for a creative writing class, or an abstract for Comparative World Religions or Cultural Anthropology. This was an actual true to life story; a personal narrative, if you will. Yup. Bobby Jindal – Demon Beater. Spiritual Warrior. Exorcist Extraordinaire. Who knew? Did he put this on his resume under “Skills and Talents”?
The original article will cost you money to see. But for those of you not wanting to part with your hard earned $1.50, here are some of the highlights.
Some background first. Jindal’s best friend Susan has not been doing well. She’s been diagnosed with skin cancer, and her behavior has become strange and erratic. She is surrounded by “sulphurous smells,” and has come to a prayer meeting for help.
Jindal writes:
The students, led by Susan’s sister and Louise, a member of a charismatic church, engaged in loud and desperate prayers while holding Susan with one hand. Kneeling on the ground, my friends were chanting, “Satan, I command you to leave this woman.” Others exhorted all “demons to leave in the name of Christ.” It is no exaggeration to note the tears and sweat among those assembled. Susan lashed out at the assembled students with verbal assaults.
Whenever I concentrated long enough to begin prayer, I felt some type of physical force distracting me. It was as if something was pushing down on my chest, making it very hard for me to breathe. . . Though I could find no cause for my chest pains, I was very scared of what was happening to me and Susan. I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back; thus, I resigned myself to leaving it alone in an attempt to find peace for myself.
It appeared as if we were observing a tremendous battle between the Susan we knew and loved and some strange evil force. But the momentum had shifted and we now sensed that victory was at hand.While Alice and Louise held Susan, her sister continued holding the Bible to her face. Almost taunting the evil spirit that had almost beaten us minutes before, the students dared Susan to read biblical passages. She choked on certain passages and could not finish the sentence “Jesus is Lord.” Over and over, she repeated “Jesus is L..L..LL,” often ending in profanities. In between her futile attempts, Susan pleaded with us to continue trying and often smiled between the grimaces that accompanied her readings of Scripture. Just as suddenly as she went into the trance, Susan suddenly reappeared and claimed “Jesus is Lord.”
With an almost comical smile, Susan then looked up as if awakening from a deep sleep and asked, “Has something happened?” She did not remember any of the past few hours and was startled to find her friends breaking out in cheers and laughter, overwhelmed by sudden joy and relief.
I leave you with this thought to ponder. Why are these two the new great hopes of the Republican Party; the shining stars; the young energetic faces of the GOP’s future? If this is the case, the best movie analogy may be “Night of the Living Dead.”
Dems, just sit tight and don’t be corrupt. The world is yours.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:49 AM
LOL……this is funny
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=156_1179339376
February 26th, 2009 at 7:53 AM
[...] Via Mudflats, here’s Bobby Jindal telling a story that I personally feel would have been terrific material for his speech the other night: The students, led by Susan’s sister and Louise, a member of a charismatic church, engaged in loud and desperate prayers while holding Susan with one hand. Kneeling on the ground, my friends were chanting, “Satan, I command you to leave this woman.” Others exhorted all “demons to leave in the name of Christ.” It is no exaggeration to note the tears and sweat among those assembled. Susan lashed out at the assembled students with verbal assaults. [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Thanks AKM! Great post… keep the heat on that religous nut.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:42 AM
@Freakout in Kansas
We have seen three of the four horsemen in Palin, Steele and Jindal…who will the fourth be?
And doesn’t life begin at conception? Technically, doesn’t that mean “Bobby” is not an American?
———-to your first point…uhhh, LIMBAUGH, HUCKABEE? to your second…EXCELLENT ANGLE / LMAO
@marcus2
Palin’s base is no different from the Taliban. Different sides of the same coin.———NOW you’re talkin’
@Paula
McCain 2012 ?___________let me think…bitter, old, angry, war-happy, vengeful vs crazed, psycho religious nuts & vengeful…hmmmm
@rebekkah
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the fruit, from what I’d observed.——-cause they’re ALL hypocrites!!! EXPOSED! yessssssssss. Now if only their followers would open their eyes to see the truth…& VOTE against these crazies…I wouldn’t have to worry so much about my grandkids future.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
@tigerwine (06:36:48) :
Yeah, I nearly started laughing to myself too, at my noontime Ash Weds. service when the Gospel reading was that one from Matthew. I was tempted the type the whole thing into a comment here, as I thought it was a good reminder about what we’ve been doing as opposed to what GINO’s been doing.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Karen Marie
“the sentence i quote here has always bothered me. if he’s such a great guy and such a battler of demons, he describes himself as an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. he describes here at least that he abandoned his friend and apparently did not even “try to pray” in order to avoid getting cooties from being attacked by the devil.
jindal’s willingness to throw the poor of louisiana under the bus to stay in the good graces of the lunatics that run the GOP asylum comes as no surprise at all in light of his attitude toward helping his friend or keeping himself safe.”
Yeah. Me as well. Kind of helps understand how a Rhodes Scholar can spout such factless bilge. He’s a coward, a nonbeliever, a political prostitute….. One or all or the above or add your own.
Does he not realize that that statement, read by someone who actually believes there was a devil present, might interpret that the devil probably left her and entered him since he was not strong enough in his faith to protect himself with the shield of Godly prayer? Or the devil, seeing his selfishness chose him as a better vessel?
As regards the cursing – this wouldn’t have happened about the time of the “Exorcist” would it?
I am curious as to why cursing, while you are having a religious fit is significant, except that it is easy for others to observe, if you are faking a religious fit and need some visible proof of the devil in you.
As regards the smells, maybe she had a touch of tummy trouble. That often causes “sulfurous” smells. I am frequently struck by how often early morning urine samples (I work in a hospital lab.) have the sulfurous smell of rotten eggs. Later in the day oddly they tend not to have that smell.
Has anybody bothered to see what kind of “skin cancer” this, presumably young, woman had. The vast majority of skin cancers are benign and can be left as is, cut out or burned off. The vast majority of malignant skin cancers are removed and no further harm is done, except the need to be very vigilant about other neoplastic grows in the skin so that they can be checked early on. The vast majority of malignant or not malignant skin cancers do not happen in young adults. Unless there is some genetic or other problem that would make them particularly susceptible.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
@Paula…Goosebumps anyone?
yes! these children, sadly, could be the same children that grow up to shoot other people because they are unable to cope with their confusions and the same children who get pregnant at early ages to escape their parental prisons, and so on and so on, scooby dooby do
February 26th, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Re: Four Horsemen
The fourth horseman is, of course Michele “Bobblehead” Bachmann
Palin, Steele, Jindal, Bachmann, and the real Whore of Babylon: Rush “Oxycontin” Limpbaugh
February 26th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Jindal’s story screamed bullshit. Besides what exactly would be wrong with a “bureaucrat” making sure the people out on those rescue boats were out on safe vessels and really out to rescue people, not loot and screw around. Boy, I wasn’t sure about him but he’s proved to be an idiot savant or somesuch.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Still lurking here every day, but haven’t commented in awhile. I just wanted to add to the thread that I am convinced it is something in the Red Koolaid! The levels of crazy just keep on coming. Jimdal Jones Koolaid for each Rethug!
February 26th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
I just read ‘The Story They Don’t Want You To Read at the dailyKingfish article is quite telling, bears repeating and expands, giving more background to what AKM already posted on Jindal.
The ‘exorcism’ episode is quite bizarre. When someone is smelling something that isn’t there, it leads me to suspect schizophrenia, in a worst case scenario and not the devil [exuse me?]. Brandishing crucifixes and praying is the collective UFC club members’ way to deal with someone’s mental breakdown [possibly] with prayer and fetching clergy is odd behaviour.
The person needed to be referred immediately to a psychologist or psychiatrist, a hospital and not what they did.
This kind of collective behaviour borders on mass hysteria. Not one thought to act differently. Zero critical thinking – what are they teaching at this Brown University anyways? Like a carpenter upon seeing a nail sticking out – uses his hammer on it as the solution rather than looking behind what is causing it to be sticking out, for instance.
If it isn’t Sarah Palin and Muthee and witches, it’s this. What in hella kool aid is going on here? It’s rather bizarre behaviour, notwithstanding Jindal’s content in his ‘address’, which has more holes in its ‘logic’ than swiss cheese. I swear he’s chanelling eminem’s My Name is Mike … Hi kids….!
@austintx Jindal looked and talked like a creep from a Tim Burton animation.
Hey! I like Tim Burton. No comparison. See my above example…
February 26th, 2009 at 10:40 AM
[...] it’s pick on Bobby Jindal day here at the Despot. I apologize. Sort of. In any case, while the demon fighting is old news, Jindal talk these days is largely focused on his mocking “$140 million for [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 11:08 AM
This is getting friggin’ scary to me.
Coming from Europe, and my parents growing up under Hitler… I see Big Time parallels to that time. In the 1930s, Europe (and the US) was in the midst of trying to get over the Big Depression, and scapegoats needed to be available. Jews were very handy. Now, we are in the midst of a new Depression, supposedly even worse than the 1920s one.
Look around you: Crazies coming out of the woodworks left and right, and people looking for someone/something to blame. Since they *CANNOT* blame one of their own – GW et al -, they need to find someone new. President Obama is a very handy target. They already are calling this the Obama Depression.
False Noise , Rush Limpballs, and other rightwing Taliban talshow hosts/networks are having record ratings;
Rethugs are going to have some kind of conference this Thursday (CPAC), and they are expecting record attendance.
Last year, they had 7,000, this year, they expect 9,000. Joe-the-non-Plumber (Joe Wurzelbacher) and ‘documentarian’ John Ziegler, will be addresing the young right wing Taliban, as will be Ann Coultergeist, Rush Limpballs, Congresswoman Bachman.
“Other events include: “Al Franken and ACORN: How Liberals are Destroying the American Election System”; “The Presidential Banquet with Master of Ceremonies: Rep. Michelle Bachmann”; “Bailing Out Big Business: Are We All Socialists Now?”; A book signing with Ann Coulter; “Media in the Obama Era: Is Journalism Dead?”; “The True Cost Of Global Warming Hysteria”; and “Will Congress Take Your Guns?” ” (Full story here: http://tinyurl.com/bcn4vb )
I *AM* very worried about the 2012 elections, because I see nowhere that the Dems are making ANY effort to fix our voting system. I am worried that a nut like our very own Sarah Palin, or this Jindal (sp?), will get (s)elected, and take the world down the drain. (After all, the old Mayan Calendar stops sometime in December 2012…)
February 26th, 2009 at 11:26 AM
LOL! That phrase “I began to think that the demon would only attack me if I tried to pray or fight back; thus, I resigned myself to leaving it alone in an attempt to find peace for myself” also caught my eye… :
So, he gave up praying and fighting back. Does this actually mean that the devil was able to slip into *HIM*, Jindal, and that *HE*, Jindal, is now possessed? Just wondering…
February 26th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Candy Knight (06:39:05) :
“Jindal is a fascinating window into how American political parties really work. SOMEONE has been pushing this man for years, moving him rapidly from one high profile job to the next, beefing up his resume. …”
I don’t know about Jindal, but there definitely is a power-behind-it-all.
Read this and weep (and get scared for our future…) :
“Obama Should Worry About the Bush Family Tentacles Undermining His Plans ”
http://tinyurl.com/dykz4x
February 26th, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I like the part where they know she’s possessed because she’s screaming profanities. I mean, if you were being held down by a team of Bible wielding wack-jobs as they prayed over you, sweating, and trying to make you read Bible verses, wouldn’t you be lacing pretty much everything with profanities? I would. I think I’d have some fairly colorful statements to offer.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Deb: pretty funny when the Mormon is the sanest of the religious republicans!
February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Quetz: Mental illness like schizophrenia and epilspsy are all over the historyof religion, an mental illness explains books like Revelations too.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Sarah is like a spoiled rotten kid, she try’s to get away with everything and pushes it to the limit, me-me-me, time for her parents (Alaskans) to give her some tough love!!
February 26th, 2009 at 12:59 PM
“Over and over, she repeated “Jesus is L..L..LL,” often ending in profanities”
OH MAN! I hate it when that happens.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:12 PM
wbNo Gravatar (11:35:48) :
I like the part where they know she’s possessed because she’s screaming profanities.
UHoh!!!!! I’m in trouble~!! S32T…I gotta go…See ya’
February 26th, 2009 at 1:14 PM
sorry ruined my own joke that’s “s#@t
February 26th, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Congrats AKM on top billing at HuffPo for this story!
February 26th, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Christonabike, I’m glad I don’t live in Alaska or Louisiana! I have two black cats, one of which likes cuddling up with me under the duvet. 3,000 miles of the wet stuff between me and the nearest bit of the USA – phew! I’d be having nightmares about having pins stuck in me, and being drowned to prove my innocence of witchcraft, otherwise. No offence intended
Bobby Jindal has a degree in biology from an Ivy League college – how do you account for that? Did his parents give them a library or something?
February 26th, 2009 at 3:06 PM
bobby the pyush jindal is an idiot….b
February 26th, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Also a Rhodes scholar, which means he has been exposed to the world on the same side of the big water as you, Pauline. But he’s definitely got some of the crazy in him. I’d hope he doesn’t know where you and your dear kitties live.
February 26th, 2009 at 5:38 PM
@ The problem child
I’m sure you weren’t
.
I’m in Wiltshire, southern England, about 35 miles from Oxford, where Gov. Jindal did his Rhodes studies. I’m in a nice spot, quiet, friendly village but not isolated, little traffic, and especially, no rumbling volcanoes that need monitoring!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Didn’t read all the comments on this yet. I’m not sure HOW I MISSED IT the other day, BUT this reminds me of the film, There Will Be Blood where the nutty baby faced priest is getting the lead character back for embarassing him.
I SCOFFED at the end of the film–yes I did, Fawnskin–and I scoff now.
PLEASE KEEP THESE CRAZY PEOPLE OUT OF POLITICS!
February 28th, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Sister Sarah – helping keep you witch-free. One neighborhood at at time, don’cha know?