The Investors Business Daily has a striking editorial on the contrast between how the media has lionized Barack Obama and essentially ignored Bobby Jindal.
Who is Jindal, you ask? That you have to ask tells a lot how the media cover minorities in politics. He's a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana. His parents emigrated from India a few days before he was born, making him the first Indian American in Congress.
True, freshmen congressmen are not necessarily front-page news. But one suspects that had Jindal been a Democrat, this 33-year-old Brown University Rhodes Scholar, who became head of Louisiana's $4 billion Health and Hospitals Department at age 24, president of the University of Louisiana system at 27 and a top adviser on health policy to the president at 29, would not be a political trivia question.
As head of Louisiana's health care system, he was able to turn the state's $400 million Medicaid deficit into a surplus.
Read the rest. I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more from Representative Jindal. I'm still waiting to find out what Obama has accomplished besides rhetoric. (Link via A Constrained Vision via Club for Growth) posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 1:06 PM
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The Investors Business Daily has a striking editorial on the contrast between how the media has lionized Barack Obama and essentially ignored Bobby Jindal.
Who is Jindal, you ask? That you have to ask tells a lot how the media cover minorities in politics. He's a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana. His parents emigrated from India a few days before he was born, making him the first Indian American in Congress.
True, freshmen congressmen are not necessarily front-page news. But one suspects that had Jindal been a Democrat, this 33-year-old Brown University Rhodes Scholar, who became head of Louisiana's $4 billion Health and Hospitals Department at age 24, president of the University of Louisiana system at 27 and a top adviser on health policy to the president at 29, would not be a political trivia question.
As head of Louisiana's health care system, he was able to turn the state's $400 million Medicaid deficit into a surplus.
Read the rest. I suspect we'll be hearing a lot more from Representative Jindal. I'm still waiting to find out what Obama has accomplished besides rhetoric. (Link via A Constrained Vision via Club for Growth) posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 1:06 PM
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