What the Heck Was Bobby Jindal Talking About?
The Louisiana governor had a tough act to follow Tuesday night. But Bobby Jindal, decidedly another rising star among the GOP’s ranks, gulped down his fears and strode through the hallways of his mansion to deliver the “Republican Response” to Barack Obama’s pep talk for America. Bearing resemblance to an essay I wrote in the fourth grade, Jindal’s speech was titled “Americans Can Do Anything.” Obama had just spoken about making the country stronger than ever, like a majestic phoenix rising from the ashes of the nation’s collapsed banking system. On the way, Obama even promised to cure cancer. How is Jindal supposed to respond to that? He did the only thing he could do — or at least what his speechwriters had planned out for him. He talked about Obama’s historic presidency. He spent an unusually long time talking about how his own parents came to Louisiana from India, and they couldn’t pay for his birth delivery, but his dad worked out a deal with a doctor, and then one time he went t
