Will Revelations About Bobby Jindal's Weird Secret Past Destroy His Political Career?

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Will Revelations About Bobby Jindal's Weird Secret Past Destroy His Political Career?

By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. Posted February 25, 2009.

Did you know about the exorcism? The name that came from The Brady Bunch? Those and other surprising facts about a GOP rising politician.



Did you know about the exorcism? The name that came from The Brady Bunch? Those and other surprising facts about one of America's fastest rising young politicians.

Last night, on the evening of President Barack Obama's first major speech, the Republicans put forward Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as the face of the opposition, tapping him to deliver their response. As a 37-year-old Indian-American Rhodes Scholar, the first-term governor presented a deliberate visual counterpoint to Obama. His folksy speech last evening is meeting with mixed reviews. But with GOP politicians already jockeying for the 2012 primary, Jindal is emerging as a top contender.

"From the insiders I'm talking to, Jindal's in the top three, right next to Palin and Romney. He's the rock star of the Republican Party right now," says Jeff Crouere, the former executive director of the Louisiana GOP and host of daily political talk show Ringside Politics.

But as the country gets acquainted with the Bayou's boy wonder, the stranger details of Jindal's religious or personal background remain largely unknown, even among the Republican grassroots. How many Americans know that Jindal boasted of participating in an exorcism that purged the spirit of Satan from a college girlfriend? So far, Jindal's tale of "beating a demon" remains behind the subscription wall of New Oxford Review, an obscure Catholic magazine; only a few major blogs have seized on the story.

Born in Baton Rouge in 1971, Jindal rarely visited his parents' homeland. His birth name was Piyush Jindal. When he was four years old, Piyush changed his name to "Bobby" after becoming mesmerized by an episode of The Brady Bunch. Jindal later wrote that he began considering converting to Catholicism during high school after "being touched by the love and simplicity of a Christian girl who dreamt of becoming a Supreme Court justice so she could stop her country from 'killing unborn babies.'" After watching a short black-and-white film on the crucifixion of Christ, Jindal claimed he "realized that if the Gospel stories were true, if Christ really was the son of God, it was arrogant of me to reject Him and question the gift of salvation." ........(more)

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[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. No, no... If anything that will help him in the Bible belt.

His sheer incompetence and lack of charisma will be what destroys him.

Seriously, I thought Jindal was supposed to be this intelligent, charming individual. Instead, what I saw the other night was a patronizing, uncreative, toolbag.

[grannie4peace]

4. yup

[PVnRT]

6. I don't know if the exorcism will...

In the Bible Belt, many still view Catholics with suspicion.

Somewhat unrelated, here in Kentucky, I heard a native of the area explaining that he'd never even heard of Ash Wednesday.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

9. True, but Catholic is at least "sorta Christian" to them.

Also, the "exorcism" as it was described was not the Catholic rite but some born-again version that involves taunting, yelling and assault.

[ogneopasno]

7. No, there are a lot of fundamentalists who still hate Catholics in a deep, deep way. Participating

in an exorcism is going to raise red flags for them.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

10. It wasn't the Catholic rite.

It was a bunch of college kids restraining yelling at a young woman for her demons to come out while shoving a Bible in her face. I kid you not.

[liberal N proud]

2. If he is what the GOP puts in front of the party...

The party faithful will follow like sheep to the slaughter house.

[Submariner]

3. Well, his past indicates he never received any education in the sciences

This dipstick had NO IDEA why volcanic monitoring needed funding. He exhibited incredible ignorance. All Bobby boy did was leave the door open for Palin to beat on him. His recent past is destroying his credibility, we don't have to look far.

The exorcism thing alone should disqualify him from public office.

[EmilyAnne]

5. The best part about his dismissal of volcanic monitoring was how he said "$140 million for SOMETHING

called volcanic monitoring" as if its just such a wacky and vague invention that only a liberal could come up with.

Here's a clue, you ass.

Volcano monitoring is, get this, volcano monitoring. You know, like where a scientist monitors a volcano.

That along with his only mention of health care being that his poor, immigrant father worked out a payment plan to pay for Jindal's birth. High health care costs solved! Work out a payment plan, you lazies!

And reminding people of SOMETHING called Hurricane Katrina.

Who wrote this man's speech?

Ruch Limbuagh owned up to everything he said. He claimed that poor Jindal is being beaten up because he doesn't have a smooth style like Obama, but that the message he delivered was a clear outline of Republican beliefs. So, there you go. Much worse than his hokey style is the message.

[juno jones]

8. Scary thing is his degree is in biology.

He's a freak. He needs to be put to sideshow pasture with Sarah NOW.

[H2O Man]

11. His current status

is enough to disqualify him. But his past history would, too.