Bobby Jindal is the Republican Governor of Louisiana. He’s the youngest governor in the U.S. at only 36 years of age and is the first elected Indian-American governor in U.S. history. Read a biography of him and see photos of him below. Also, there is included a video of his appearance on the Jay Leno Show from April 28, 2008.
Bobby Jindal (Photo)
Bobby Jindal’s name has been bandied about quite a bit as a possible choice as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in the 2008 election. Many people view him as an ideal candidate because of his conservative credentials and his youth. Jindal has jokingly stated that he will only consider running on the ticket with John McCain ‘if he speaks at my high school reunion in August.’ He appeared on The Tonight Show tonight and stated he has the job he wants and hopes to remain Governor of Louisiana.
Jindal took the oath of office as Governor of Louisiana on January 14, 2008. In the infancy of his governorship he has been popular bringing hope that he will bring businesses and economic stability back to Louisiana following the exodus in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina.
“My mom and dad came to this country in pursuit of the American dream. And guess what happened. They found the American dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana,” ~ Bobby Jindal
Bobby Jindal Biography
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jindal’s parents are Amar and Raj Jindal who immigrated to the United States to attend graduate school. They are of Punjabi ancestry. When Jindal was in high school he converted from Hinduism to Catholicism. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School when he was sixteen years old. He graduated from Brown University in Providence Rhode Island in 1991. He graduated with honors in biology and Public Policy. In 1994 Jindal earned his master’s degree at New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in Political Science.
Bobby Jindal’s career has been very impressive. He has held positions in government since 1996. Prior to being elected Governor of Louisiana he served as a Representative in the U.S. Congress. Some career highlights include: when he became Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals the State’s Medicaid program was in bankruptcy. The Medicare program went from a $400 Million deficit to surpluses of $220 million in just three years under his management. In 1999 when he was 28-years-old, he was appointed as the youngest ever President of the University of Louisiana system. In March 2001 he was nominated by President George Bush and was confirmed unanimously to serve as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Bobby Jindal married Supriya Jolly in 1997. The couple have three children, Selia Elizabeth, Shaan Robert and Slade Ryan.
4/5/2008 UPDATE: Billy Kristol wrote a compelling article today about the possibility of a McCain-Jindal ticket.
Maybe that’s why, in separate conversations last week, no fewer than four McCain staffers and advisers mentioned as a possible vice-presidential pick the 36-year-old Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal. They’re tempted by the idea of picking someone so young, with real accomplishments and a strong reformist streak.
Many people have expressed their desire for Jindal to stay in Louisiana and clean it up before he goes to Washington, including some commenters on this blog. It seems that many people are looking to Jindal as a presidential candidate in 2012 rather than a vice-presidential candidate in 2008. I guess we are going to find out eventually!
5/21/2008 UPDATE: Rumors of Bobby Jindal being a possible running mate for John McCain are intensifying. He and his wife, Supriya, are flying to Arizona on Friday to meet with McCain. McCain has no public meetings this weekend. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of it!
Bobby Jindal (Photos)
Bobby Jindal (Video)
April 29th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I really really really like Bobby Jindal. I wrote about him maybe 2 months ago. I hope he doesn’t run as VP, I think he’d make a good presidential candidate himself in a few years.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Off-topic, but this is the punchline to my lengthy and laborious posting on the “German Talis” thread, and I promise to stop after this one.
Thomas Hargrove on Tue, 08/01/2006, continued:
“The survey also found that people who regularly use the Internet but who do not regularly use so-called “mainstream” media are significantly more likely to believe in 9/11 conspiracies. People who regularly read daily newspapers or listen to radio newscasts were especially unlikely to believe in the conspiracies.”
You already know why that is, don’t you? It’s because you spend more of your online time SEEKING VALIDATION for the [unsatisfactory material] that you already believe, than you do on fact-checking or seeking challenges to that [unsatisfactory material].
.. Still, Bighead, to your credit, you are here today, reading this blog. So some glimmer of curiosity must still smolder somewhere in your low-wattage brain. So here’s what you need to do about that.
.. You need to again look up the quote that YOU presented, from Col Nelson, and you need to WRITE OUT IN YOUR OWN WORDS the reason(s) why you think his remarks provide support for your version of the events of 2001-09-11. You’ll find this to be a very helpful exercise. It will clarify your thinking in a big way, by forcing you to DECIDE which version of events you think is most believable, and to CHOOSE an approach for attempting to sell it to the rest of us.
.. I strongly doubt that you’ll actually do this homework, because I agree with S.Weasel: all you’ve got going for you in an “Appeal to Authority.” You can cut-and-paste vast quantities of plagiarized SPAM, and expect us to be all knocked out by the official job-titles of your unread sources, but you are simply incapable of actually analyzing the “evidence” that you yourself present.
.. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong.
Okay, I’m done now.
not TBC.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
“At 232 comments, please continue this discussion on the open thread on the homepage:”
Uh, I didn’t see this until after I’d posted the above, but now that I have seen it, and have looked around for the open thread, I haven’t found it. If there is someplace that the above comment (not so much this one) should be, rather than on this thread, by all means feel free to move it to there.
tx
SDD
April 29th, 2008 at 9:37 am
He looks like the counter help at my local 7-11. Okay okay, he really IS Indian.
McCain needs a young, black, conservative, woman, governor, from Ohio or Pennsylvania. Jindal has three of those critical criteria met. Sarah Paulin has four.
Identity politics is icky.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Stoop Dave, sorry that I was a little late with open thread. You are quick!
April 29th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Uh, if there’s an open one NOW, we could adjourn to there. I don’t want to clog up the Bobby Jindal topic with irrelevant stuff.
Oh!
Just to be on-topic, for one single minute, yeah, that guy Jindal, he’s okay. I’d vote for him.
Other than that, I got nothin’.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
McCain’s primary argument against Obama is that McCain has more experience.
How would McCain square that argument with picking a guy who has spent 3 years in Congress and about 4 months as Governor?
April 29th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Ah Bob, that is NOT McCain’s primary argument against Obama. On the contrary he has rather spectacularly said that Clinton and Obama are both qualified. Makes conservatives scratch their heads because Obama is so much less qualified than McCain, but you have to realize he has already immunized himself from your line of argument. Everyone else will argue that Obama is not qualified, but you won’t hear McCain himself say it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
I agree that Palin is the ideal choice for VEEP. Jindal is the ideal POTUS candidate for 2016.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:25 am
I’m a big fan of Jindal’s, too and I’m with the folks who say that he should stay clear of any connection with McCain. Let him grow as governor. The idea of this very bright and talented guy spending the next 4 to 8 years pimping McCain-ism is a bit hard to bear.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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