You Say "Piyush" and I Say "Bobby"

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Self-thinking-&-earnest, ripe-to-lobby, "pole turtle" Piyush, Beltway Bobby!
Let's call the whole thing... worthwhile because we both don't spell "potato" the way Dan Quayle did!


I'm rather intrigued and thrilled by Bobby Jindal's delivering of the Republican response last night to President Obama's address.

His emergence is a reflection that there are some smarts within the Republican party. I hope he'll be modern and good for American politics. And I hope he doesn't disappoint by going the way of Sarah Palin.

Some time ago, an analyst writing for Hyphen Magazine fingered him as a rising star, but this analyst expressed concern that Jindal's political career might be limited by unwillingness to get slimy or play amongst some inner circles of "good ol' boys".

So far--including based on what I saw of him working for Louisiana in the past couple years--I really like him. His voice is beneficial for America.


I do have a concern that arises from my time spent in east Africa. There, some tension and ambivalence exists toward people of south Asian descent. However grounded-in-fact or unfounded it might be, average black citizens (not necessarily those ones with the best education or access to information) regard Indians as people who are corrupt and/or exploitative.

So I'm thinking that while it would not be bad to see a 2012 election competition between Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal (assuming he continues to check out practically clean between now and then), I can just see the average black citizens in Africa again seeing it as "the Indian man versus the black man". ... Well, that would be another "opportunity" (as we veterans of business situations with crisis understand the term) for the world to move forward.