Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Saturday said President Obama’s actions had made him concerned for the future of the United States.
“There’s a lot that President Obama is doing that worries me about our country,” Jindal said during the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition summit in Waukee, Iowa.
“The thing that worries me the most is how President Obama is redefining the American dream,” he added.
{mosads}“He tries dividing us by race, by gender, by geography and by income,” argued Jindal, a likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate.
Jindal urged voters to remember they had power over the nation’s direction.
One election is all it took, he said, to change America’s fortunes.
“The changes he has made to our culture will be much harder to unravel,” Jindal said of Obama’s long-term impact. “So much of this can be undone when we get a conservative in the White House.”
The Louisiana governor cited marriage as one of the areas hardest hit by Obama’s new version of America. The same-sex version, he argued, was not what the term “marriage” originally invoked.
“I am not evolving on this issue,” Jindal said of Obama’s famous shift on the issue of gay marriage. “I’m not basing my opinion on poll numbers.”
Jindal has not yet publicly declared whether he will seek the Oval Office. He pleaded with Americans to remember the stakes when picking between any conservative candidate and 2016 Democratic contender Hillary Clinton next election cycle.
“We have to win the next election,” he argued.
“Our Founding Fathers got it right,” Jindal added.
“This is our time,” he concluded. “Let’s make sure that the next generation gets to live that American dream as well.”