Pittsburgh_Patrika_October_2015

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 21, No. 1, October 2015
Jindal’s Madcap Pursuit for the White House
In the overcrowded field of Republicans seeking nomination for the
White House, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal became irrelevant on the very
day he announced his intention in late June. I was not a
fan of Jindal even when he was a rising GOP star years
ago. This is what I wrote in 2010 on Jindal:
“When Jindal as governor was invited to the White
House Diwali function — which has now lost all its
religious significance — he did not show up. Probably
because of the bad optics of the video clips filling the
“very Southern” Louisiana airwaves in election commercials showing a
brown Jindal in an Indian “Hindu” function in the midst of other brown
Indians. That will not sit well in the deeply ‘Southern’ Louisiana... ...
Jindal, the Ivy league Brown University graduate in biology, in his anxiety
to get elected as the governor of Louisiana, was also running away
from Darwin’s Natural Selection and embraced the Judeo-Christian idea
of creation in which the universe is only 6,000 years old, give or take a
few centuries...”
No sooner had Bobby Jindal announced in June seeking the GOP
nomination for the White House, comments from mainstream
readers were pungent and sarcastic. From the Washington Post:
“According to conservative GOPers life begins at conception. So Piyush
Jindal isn’t even eligible to run for President, because he was conceived
in India.” [Note: Jindal was born a few months after his pregnant mother
landed in the US.]
“The mistake is thinking that being smart always translates into good
policy. Plenty of smart people trade ambition and greed for good policy.
Jindal is just the latest example.”
“For laughs, I have to report that the NOLA.com’s online headline was
not Jindal’s announcement but the protestors at the event—you know how
bad the guy is when his own citizens will take the time to derail him...
... Usually these people support ... anything ... coming out of the state
on loyalty alone.”
“Bobby is thankful for Mississippi; because without it, Louisiana would
be dead last in just about every state ranking category.”
From the New York Times:
“...[M]ost of us here in Louisiana are eager to enter the post-Jindal
era... His has wrecked the state budget, state schools, state roads, state
healthcare, and more — all to stay true to the “oath” he took not to raise
taxes. Some of us are willing to pay a little more in order to have better
schools, roads, healthcare, etc.; even the conservatives among us want
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