Ok, then...Calling him Piyush is like calling Jeb Jerry

[RadiationTherapy]

Is this analogy correct?

Both are attempts to mask one's origin for whatever reason. "Jeb" is more folksy than Jerry. "Bobby" is more folksy than Piyush. "Dylan" is more folksy than Zimmerman.

I see no reason why critics have to refrain from exposing this tactic.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. Because it's racist.... somehow.

I don't understand myself, but I'm sure that's what would be thrown in the critics' faces.

[saltpoint]

2. Was Dylan honoring poet Dylan Thomas in his choice?

That seems to reach high and in the case of Bob Zimmerman, aptly high.

Piyush Jindal dipped a lot lower on that continuum to get Bobby Brady.

[KittyWampus]

3. 4 year olds are just getting the hang of using the toilet. They aren't that culturally sophisticated

Maybe he should be glad his favorite show wasn't "Barney the Dinosaur"/

[saltpoint]

8. And speaking of getting the hang of toilets, another Louisiana Republican,

Dave Vitter, comes to mind.

"Barney the Dinosaur" -- LOL. As a Republican, though, he would have chosen 'Dinosaur' instead of 'Barney.'

[Jackpine Radical]

5. iirc Bobby Zimmerman did take his name from Dylan Thomas.

I have no idea where I picked up that piece of information, but I seem to have known it for about as long as I've known who Bob Dylan is. And at my age, that means for about as long as there has been a Bob Dylan.

[saltpoint]

7. Hi, Jackpine Radical. Thank you for that info. Dylan has been kind

of a force of nature for me, too. And he chose well in Dylan Thomas.

Two great poets.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. "Go not quiet into that good night,

but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Yeah.

[saltpoint]

10. -- --

:toast:

[vanderBeth]

4. Tactic?

I don't think he had some ulterior motives when he choose that name when he was a kid.

[RadiationTherapy]

17. link below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5130778&mesg_id=5130930

[MADem]

6. "Mask" origin? Nonsense. How about "fit in with the prevailing culture?"

He was FOUR YEARS OLD when he chose that nickname.

And he picked BOBBY off the BRADY BUNCH, not because it was a Loo-see-anna "folksy" name.

If you take issue with Bobby Jindal on the issues, that's one thing. Going after him about the nickname he has had since before he went to kindergarten suggests a pretty slimy and undemocratic agenda that borders on xenophobia.

[RadiationTherapy]

14. Point 1 - Fit in? I can understand a child needing that.

Point 2: 4 years old? So what?
Point 3: Brady Bunch? So what?
Point 4: Oh, wait...no more points.

[MADem]

24. Point One--You're being deliberately obtuse and xenophobic.

That's the only point that needs to be made here, save that most Democrats would be ashamed of behaving in that fashion.

[RadiationTherapy]

28. Bah. The guy's a fucking FAKER.

He's repub because he's greedy and probably hateful towards large swaths of diverse people. He is 'Bobby' because his voting base he is appealing to is racist; he CANNOT BE A REPUB NAMED PIYUSH.

[MADem]

32. You should be ashamed of yourself. The fact that you're not is sad. NT

[MineralMan]

11. I can't see the point in using a name Jindal, himself,

doesn't use. Heck, I hope he is the GOOP candidate, and I hope Sarah Palin is his running mate, or vice-versa. It would demonstrate the paucity of leadership the Republican Party can offer the nation.

Just let him speak. That'll be enough. Let Sarah Palin speak, too. That worked out pretty well last November, I think.

[TahitiNut]

12. Jindal, apparently ashamed of his ethnic name as a child, chose "Bobby" based on ...

... Bobby Brady of "The Brady Bunch" on TV. (Sadly, it's not all that unusual for a person of color to try to "pass.") It seems Jindal continues to be ashamed of his ethnic name, even though he's never changed it legally.

He's an ass. (Asses come in all races, religions, genders, and ethnicities.)

[RadiationTherapy]

16. It's a tactic because REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST

and he knows it. That is why he held on to a nickname adopted to fit in as a child through college and career, because he'd be a Dem by now if he was 'Piyush'.

[vanderBeth]

27. ...or it's just a name he has been called all his life.

And I don't care what his name is. He wouldn't be a Dem in a million years.

[burythehatchet]

21. Ignorance is bliss

[Glorfindel]

13. We should call politicians what they prefer to be called, in my opinion

I've always cringed a little at "Jimmy" Carter and "Bill" Clinton, but how they wish to be addressed, and so be it. On the other hand, referring to Nixon as "Millhouse" was just good, clean fun. :evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

15. Yes. 'Millhouse" was a cake-taker to be sure.

I have a nearly-life-long ear-tic with Warren Harding's middle name, "Gamaliel."

It would be a good name for a hamster.

[Spoon]

18. Man, WTF

You have freepers over in freeperland tearing down there own guy, calling him Indian IT nerd guy - and even over here you have this shit. He has an Americanized nickname, he is an American, who the hell cares what nickname he's had since he was a CHILD.

When this shit is coming from both sides of the isle, you know this country has a serious freakin problem.

[RadiationTherapy]

20. He wouldn't even BE a repub if he had abandoned his nickname

in college. It's a tactic because he is trying to deceive the racists he is courting. I, on the other hand, voted for Barack 'Barry' Hussein Obama.

[dipsydoodle]

19. You all called Norma Deloris Egstrom

Peggy so what's the issue ?

[Marrah_G]

22. No- No it is not the same.

[CJCRANE]

23. JEB is from his initials - John Ellis Bush - not from "Jerry" nt

[RadiationTherapy]

29. Dang.

That messed me up.

[dipsydoodle]

31. Then its a shame

he wasn't christened Donald Ulyesses Michael Frederick Upton Charles Kenneth.

[burythehatchet]

25. Second dumbest thought today. The other DK guy got you beat.

[treestar]

26. I do not understand why we are so worried about offending this

Rethug who would allow the unemployed to starve to prove his free market points! Who does not believe in helping his fellow man - like all other republics. Who thinks the free market should rule no matter who suffers!

[chimpyisstillsatan]

30. RW behaviour is repulsive

...and progressives are better than that.

Barry...Hussein...

Is Jindahl's NAME really what we want to focus on right now?

Don't be childish.