Just because I am fed up with being the resident anti – sexist, anti – objectification blogger, I present in all his glory our very own Bobby Jindal. This is part of a truly tasteless Vanity Fair “Red Meat” calendar featuring GOP men in various,photoshopped states of undress. On a serious note: I completely disapprove of this. Imagine if they had tried this with GOP women,I would have been the first to cry “Foul”!

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Bobby Jindal, the republican governor of Louisiana declares that he is not interested for the post of the vice-president of the United States. [Link] (tip Annu, via tipster)


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Bobby Jindal has been touted as the next Ronald Reagan and understandably so, because of his achievements at a very young age, (9 yrs younger than Obama – Jindal’s 37).

He’s the youngest sitting governor of a state and is from a minority race, similar to Obama (who’s bi-racial). Bobby’s race, age and achievements could probably have benefited McCain in his presidential dreams.

However, Jindal isn’t interested:

“Let me be clear: I have said in every private and public conversation, I’ve got the job that I want. And I’ll say again on air: I’m not going to be the vice presidential nominee or vice president. I’m going to help Senator McCain get elected, as governor of Louisiana,” Jindal said.”

There could be many reasons on Bobby Jindal’s side for this – he may feel that he lacks enough experience, and his primary responsibility towards the state of Louisiana to begin with.
It would only be reasonable to assume that, one day we might see him running for the president of the United States. For now the race is on without him anywhere in the picture. And as for McCain’s remaining options -

“Later, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, another potential running mate, told FOX News he has had “no conversations” with the McCain campaign about joining the ticket. “When they announce it, I’ll be one of those most interested in their decision,” said Ridge, also former Homeland Security secretary. He said he has “no idea” when the McCain camp might decide.
Meanwhile, The Boston Herald reported Wednesday that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is still near the top of McCain’s list. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and several other officials, are also thought to be among the top choices for McCain.”

And since Condi Rice isn’t being seen as a serious contender, McCain has probably few options to choose from – Tom Ridge, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, none of whom see to have an apparent race advantage (or disadvantage) for the voters.
What do readers think? Is it a clever idea for Bobby Jindal to take time to groom himself for the post of the strongest man in the world? Or is it an opportunity lost forever?
Would it have mattered if Jindal actually had the supporting ticket for the post of VP, for the upcoming elections?
Have your say below.

Other posts related to Jindal on Uberdesi:

• Jindal flip flops himself out of the veep position
• McCain picks Jindal as running mate

A long time ago, a friend of mine, who wanted to get into politics quoted her dad. He said something along the lines of “Never do drugs, because when you decide you want to be a senator, that will come to bite you”.

Every politician knows this, well every American politician knows this and if you ever have dreams of signing a few bills when the President is getting his colonoscopy, then you better be extra careful. Because every thing you do will fall under the radar. When you are in consideration, you triple check everything you do.

But it looks like Bobby did not get the memo, that or he was inspired by John Kerry to pull off a move after the master flip flopper.

Here is what unfolded according to LA Times blog.

So to recap, first Jindal promised to stop the pay raise, then told legislators he wouldn’t stop the pay raise, then — looking at his own political mortality — reversed direction again and stopped the pay raise. Jindal fell on the sword Monday, thanking “the people for their voice and their attention” — that would be the recall petition — and added: “The voters have demanded change. … I made a mistake by staying out of it.”

I guess it is the season for potential candidates to screw up their possibilities of being the second most powerful person in the world.

Via Boing Boing comes this amazing story about dark forces and spiritual healing, an incident that will be out of place on a Twilight Zone script. And we, at UberDesi would not have even batted an eyelid, if not for the fact that the main protagonist in question was our own Bobby. No, not that Bhabhi (Hate to disappoint you, Amit!), but the Bobby who occupies the gubernatorial mansion in Baton Rouge.

Piyush Jindal’s faithful following of the Catholic Church is no news. But it appears he has had one more job title in his resume – Exorcist/Spiritual Warrior. Even this piece of news seems to be dated (the Daily Kos talked about it way back in ‘03), though it has recently gained more newsprint space because of the Veep rumors (one of UD’s own actually pencilled in “Bobby for Veep back in April, albeit in a lighter vein).

As this article in Talking Points Memo says,

But Jindal’s battle with the dark forces may become an issue should his Veep candidacy proceed. While it’s hardly a blockbuster revelation, it could provide fodder for bloggers and late-night comics to turn his candidacy into a media sideshow.

And since it seems to have missed the attention of the desi media, we are more than happy to oblige.

So, back to Bobby’s moonlighting as an exorcist. Writing in the New Oxford Review in ‘94, in an article (a excerpt available here) titled “Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare”, Jindal describes an incident involving a lady friend that he was involved with in a non-physical, almost romantic way.

Susan and I had developed an intimate friendship; indeed, our rela­tionship mystified observers, who insisted on finding a romantic component where none existed.

How cute is that! These Amrikkans will never understand the desi way. We wait and we wait and we wait… till we can no longer do it.

Wait, the plotline gets better. In a plot twist straight out of a Ramsay brothers production, it turns out that “Susan” was possessed and often surrounded with sulphuric smells. So at some point during/after a prayer meeting, Jindal and his friends get working.

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.

During this attempt to fight Satan and beat the demon back to where he came from, Susan attempted to escape and was pinned down and restrained. And the exorcism continued with renewed strength.

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.

And then, there was light.

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.

The scorecard that day read, Bobby and Co. – 1, Satan – 0. Take that, you old serpent! And that was not all. It turns out that Susan had been diagnosed with skin cancer and Jindal writes that he believed that the touch of God during the exorcism had cured her of her cancer too.

Of course while we are not atheists here at UD, we do draw the line at exorcisms. Seriously, this post is not an attempt to poke fun at Jindal’s devotion to God and/or the Catholic Church. His religious affiliations are of no importance to this blogger.

However we believe that, in a modern world that attempts to rationalize everything, his related beliefs in the paranormal and the supernatural surely bear some importance and deserve to be parodied.