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Article: A Better Bobby Jindal
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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I liked the old Bobby Jindal better -- the one whose brain
moves so fast, he's already indexing questions his interviewers
haven't thought of yet.
What did they do with him?
The Jindal who responded to Barack Obama's address to Congress
was less the brilliant statesman than a terribly mixed metaphor --
equal parts Mister Rogers, Bobby Brady and Kenneth the Page.
I know Bobby Jindal, and that guy wasn't Bobby Jindal.
The real Jindal is the intellectual equivalent of a nuclear power
plant. The real Jindal has actually read the stimulus bill and can
recite its contents. The real Jindal is the sort of politician who
promises ethics and education reform, and actually delivers.
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