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U.S.News & World Report
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal is the governor of Louisiana and a former congressman and is thought to be a possible running mate for McCain.

1. The son of immigrants from India’s Punjab state, Jindal made history when he became the first U.S. governor with roots in India.

2. Born Piyush Jindal in Baton Rouge in 1971, he gave himself the nickname Bobby—after the youngest son on The Brady Bunch—when he was 4.

3. Raised a Hindu, Jindal converted to Catholicism as a teenager. As a young convert, he wrote of the emotional and intellectual struggles of his spiritual journey in several articles that were published in the New Oxford Review, a Catholic magazine.

4. Jindal graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1987. He attended Brown University, graduating with honors in biology and public policy. He turned down admissions to medical and law schools at Harvard and Yale to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar.

5. While attending Oxford, Jindal contemplated joining the priesthood. He ultimately decided that it was not for him.

6. In 2006, Jindal and his wife, Supriya, delivered their third child at home. Barely able to call 911 before the delivery, Jindal received a nurse’s coaching by phone. Just as he was completing the umbilical cord procedure with a shoestring, paramedics arrived. The Jindals have a daughter and two sons.

7. Before he turned 30, Jindal headed Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals and became president of the University of Louisiana System. He served in the Department of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush and was executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare in the late ’90s. Prior to public service, Jindal worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

8. In 2003, Gov. Mike Foster, who was finishing his second consecutive term and therefore could not run again, encouraged Jindal to run for governor. Defeated by Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Jindal’s first bid for governor was unsuccessful.

9. In 2004, he sought the congressional seat from Louisiana’s First District. He won with a whopping 78 percent of the vote and was re-elected in 2006 with almost 90 percent.

10. In 2007, Jindal ran for governor again and won. The victory was largely attributed to old-fashioned politicking, which included Jindal “giving testimony” in Pentecostal and Baptist churches in rural and remote sections of Louisiana.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/05/22/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bobby-jindal.html

Jindal? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!

he’s a homophobic wingnut who communes with snake handlers in the republican swamps of loooosiana.

I hope mcsame picks him and ends that little phucker’s “career” before it gets too far.

And that has NOTHING to do with him being from India.

A wingnut is a wingnut is a wingnut, no matter their ethnicity

Who cares?

Leave Wichita’s baseball team out of this!

Ya mean Bobby “I’m an Exorcist” Jindal?

Mebbe he’s McCain’s answer to healthcare. “The power of Christ compels you, the power of Christ compels you” instead of expensive antibiotics.

“We saw it in 2000 & 2004.”

You must be living in an alternate history from the rest of the real world. The MSM is always in the tank for the democrat.

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I believe the name, Bobby Jindal, is about to be introduced to the World in blazing headlines as John McCain’s selection to be his vice-presidential running mate. Earlier today, I thought this would be a ludicrous pick by John McCain but now have done a complete turn around.

Thanks to WE Blogger, Lindainks55’s exhaustive biographical summary above and a little research myself AND SOME REFLECTIVE THINKING … I think Bobby Jindal will be the choice and a good one. As a moderate Republican, I support this decision.

Of course, I hope at some point in his life, Jindal didn’t run a prostitution ring or stolen car operation. But it appears he has been on the up and up all his life and a strong political producer.

His resume of education and political accomplishments certainly eclipses by far Barack Obama’s sub-professional work as a community organizer in west Chicago and sweetheart time as a first term U.S. Senator from Illinois.

So let’s get this show on the road … quickly.

“McCain looks on target for a winning ticket with either pick.”

McCain could pick Jesus Himself as a VP candidate and he would still lose in November.

The time has passed for the conservatives.

But thanks for playing the game.

Not really, but it sounded good.

Oh please, please, please pick Jindal, the jokes would be never ending. This guy’s idea of a health care plan would involve exorcisms. The nutter believes in creationism proving that he slept through his entire college education. He only got into office as a result of a protest vote, he can only hurt McCain by scaring off level headed Christians like Kline has done in Kansas.

I was very excited when I read the field of potential running mates had been narrowed down to either Romney or Jindal. Both are excellent choices!

“The Air National Guard stint was what many did in that day;”

IF they had a daddy with the right connections.

Gee, I don’t know: should McCain really pick a muslim as his running mate? /sarcasm off

Other things aside, putting this guy a heartbeat away from the presidency when you’re the second-oldest candidate in history would kinda torpedo all that talk about Obama’s inexperience on the national stage.

ben –

Damn right. If you’d been in those shoes, and had the connections, so would you.

One thing that has always troubled me about what our politics has become, with the 24 hour constant news cycle and the need to drive ratings on it, is the constant need for scandal to drive ratings. It’s the modern version of “if it bleeds, it leads.” There was a time that a man’s (or woman’s) past was accepted as OK (barring a major crime or some such, of course). You didn’t need to be a saint to get into politics.

Frankly, I don’t want saints. I want people who have, at times, gotten their hands dirty, done things, and from time to time, made mistakes.

That’s why, I think, Bush’s drinking past didn’t hurt him. We’ve all done things when young that when we got older seem incredibly dumb. What matters is not whether we do them, but whether we learn from them.

The young think that gov’t can fix stuff. The old, who’ve seen all this before, understand that gov’t generally F***’s stuff up; in many cases, the best thing that gov’t can do is nothing. It’s why “I’m from the gov’t, and I’m here to help” is one of the scariest phrases in the language.

That’s what troubles me about Obama. He’s wet behind the ears, a suit without a resume, a pretty voice with very little substance. Judgement comes from experience, and he has little. Just who is the prop-up man behind his meteoric rise? Coming out of the cesspool that is the Chicago Democratic/Daley machine, I shudder to think. I suspect the Tony Rezkos of the world is the least of our worries.

EADS lobbyists friends ,……………

“Maggot doesn’t it just frost you that someone could draw a different conclusion than you do on evolution or creationism? To each his own I say.”

There’s scientific conclusion based upon the evidence which proves the fact of evolution. Then there is assumption based upon wishful thinking and scientific ignorance, and that is creationism.

Being that this is farm country the knowledge of evolution is instrumental in explaining why farmers need different varieties of insecticide. Having a scientific ignoramus like Jindal in office can only bring harm to society.

What a bunch of whiners!

“GMC70″ –

(The Big) Dick Cheney has all sorts of experience. Where’s that got us?

You claim, “Judgement comes from experience…”, but you know better. Judgment comes from wisdom and intelligence and vision.

McC*nt’s “judgment” is based on his ability to get shot out of the sky and live to tell about it. McBush’s “judgment” includes “highly principled” opinions on every side of every issue that’s come up. McSame is another kid who, by an accident of birth, found himself accepted to and just barely eking out a diploma from an elite institution of higher education. John Sidney McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) thinks Iraq borders Afghanistan, doesn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shi’ites, and admits he doesn’t know squat about the economy (except from the advice he gets from his principal economic adviser who thinks $4-a-gallon gasoline is a figment of our imaginations).

McC*nt cites his crazy-cat-lady 98-year-old mother as proof he’s not gonna die soon. But when his father was his age, John Sidney McCain Jr. had been dead for three years.

GMC70,

A couple of friends (also female) and I were discussing the fall of politics and other interesting topics last night. (That three-way phone conversation option is great!) One is in southern IL, one in Waco, TX, and me in Red State Kansas. At the same time, we all said that what sells is SENSATIONALISM. We’ve become a nation of sound bytes, much like the tabloids use. Nobody reads the articles, just the headlines. I admit that I’ll continue on to read an article if the headline grabs me, although not necessarily a sensationalized story, just one that piques my interest. It’s the same as grabbing a book reader with the first sentence or paragraph.

That’s why, I think, Bush’s drinking past didn’t hurt him.

It’s not his drinking past, but how he handles his drinking or non-drinking present. Anyone with half a brain has to notice the difference between the George W. who ran for governor of Texas and the George W. living in the WH today. If not, please check out this link. It’s so obvious, it’s sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo&feature=related

As for Dan Rather’s “forgery”, the WH never denied the accuracy of the content, only the FONT that was used. Get real.

I thought that George WMD Bush was already McCain’s running mate – seems to me that they are joined at the hip.

BJ
“I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit”

Jindal might well PERSONALLY accept the theory of evolution.
As a Catholic, Jindal is free to believe in BOTH Creationism and Evolution, at the same time.
They are NOT mutually exclusive.
What Jindal has done is promote academic freedom, making clear that his state will not censor politically incorrect questions and theories.

“George W. Bush volunteered for duty in Vietnam.”

Wrong. Republican lie. No matter how many times you repeat it, it is still a lie.

Bush specifically noted on his TANG application that he wanted stateside assignments only.

“George W. Bush volunteered for duty in Vietnam.”

No way Paul. He could have done that at any US Army recruiting station in the country and been in Nam in months. The whole purpose of the well-connected going into the NG back then was to AVOID Nam. That is why those of us without connections could NOT get in.

Paul is correct that Catholics can believe in evolution without any problem – at least many Catholics.

Remember – the guy who wrote the creation story was not there. And, according to at least one analysis of the writings in the Torah the time period was billions of years.

Linda when the major donation bundlers (hundred of thousands)for both Obama and Clinton are now in jail on felony charges I find it hard to believe you would even mention a simple thing like failure to report mail expense from the national party.

Rezko, Shu and you say this is fitting ‘right’ in. It looks more like ‘left’ in. Typical near sightedness by the libs.