I can't believe this guy is a clueless outright liar. What is a lousisana Governor doing in Iowa? Looking for cheap meat? Bunch of nonsense. he should be slapped in the face for thinking that people are so stupid or innocent. He should be thrown out of Iowa using a big slingshot with lot of bull shit.

This guy is an opportunist, who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism inorder to run for office in Louisiana, which is predominantly catholic. In addiiton, I would like to bring to the attention of the readers of my commentary that Hinduims is a racist "religion" (ideology) like apartheid. In India, including Punjub where Bobby Jindal's parents come from, the Dravidians (people with Darker skin) are second class citiziens, while the light skinnied Hindus, who call themselvess Aryan Hindus, are the masters of land. The dark-skinned Dravidians are not allowed to live in the same area with the light-skinned Hindus ("Aryan" Hindus), cannot sit at the same table with the "Aryan" Hindus to eat, cannot sit at the same table in school; do all the menial jobs in India etc. (For detailed information read the report by the New York based Human Rights Watch Report of 2007 entitled, "Inida: The Hidden Apartheid."

In conclusion, I would like to point out that it is no conincidence that the Majority of "Aryan" (light-skinned) Hinus here in the United States, who have become American citizens, are members of the Republican Party, because they believe it is a party of Aryan (white) people. I am 100% sure that is is also the case with Bobby Jindal, the Punjabi "Aryan" Hindu.

Thank you.

He must think people are stupid...What the hell he's doing in Iowa that's far from Louisiana if he thinking about re-electrion..

As an Indian, I have to refute this highly false, stereotypical, content-free post. Casteism or segregation due to caste happened a very long time ago. It was not based on the color of your skin, but was based on the community you belonged to. And just as every religion without exception has things in its past that do not have a place in today's society, this is one of them. And yes, in isolated pockets of India, this may still be practiced but it is a country of a billion people and the majority of Indians live harmoniously in an egalitarian society and are focused on getting a better education, growing the GDP, improving the economy and their quality of life, as you would know (if you have been paying any attention to the developments of the past decade). I am not a Republican, but I had to respond as I believe Bobby Jindal's family's Hindu heritage has absolutely nothing to do with his competence or ability to serve. It is this kind of bitter stereotyping that is so divisive.

As a Louisiana resident, this guy has been a joke and an embarrassment to anyone with any kind of decency or self respect. He is a shameless self promoter who has depended upon his wife and supporters for an income and who has never held a management position prior to becoming to becoming the governor. He is a fast talker better suited to selling cars than promoting good government. In summary, what a tool.

zeg, for your information Louisiana is only 30% Catholic. You seem to be woefully ill-informed.
Jindal is my Governor, I have met him many times and feel he is making some excellent decisions for our state (which has been in the hands of corrupt Democrats for far too long).

Did anyone read WHY he is in Iowa?
Jindal will keynote a fundraising dinner for the Iowa Family Policy Center's "Celebrating the Family" banquet, a high-profile Christian conservative event,

I really don't know what letemgo might be referring to. I also live in LA, am an independent, and Bobby Jindal is a rising politician because he is competent, does what he says, and works for the people of his state. Anyone who comments on his abilities or aspirations should do their homework - they might like what they find. So what if he is visits Iowa? He would be a far better Republican candidate (in 2016) than anyone else on the radar today. I fully expect him to serve two terms as governor. If Obama's first four year are even a moderate success, no Republican will have a chance in 2012. Jindal would be smart to build his base for the next eight years, and if people vote on competence and capability in 2016, he has as good a shot as anybody.

Raj,

Here is what Dr. Narayanan, who was India's first only Dalit (Dravidian, Untouchable) President from 1997 to 2002 said about the apartheid system in Inida. This is from the mouth of the recent President of Inida, i.e., 1997 -2002 (FIVE YEARS AGO).

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http://www.newint.org/features/2005/07/01/narayanan/

KR Narayanan was India's first and only Dalit President from 1997 to 2002. Mari Marcel Thekaekara found him ready to speak his mind.

The contradiction confounds you. A Dalit elected to the highest post in the land in a country where every day Dalits are humiliated, raped, tortured and killed. Of course, governments are notorious for tokenism; show-casing their support for minorities through figurehead appointments. In India it's a fine art.

But in Kocheril Raman Narayanan (or KRN as he is known), India's first and only Dalit President, they got more than they bargained for.

Elected in 1997, he refused to be a rubber-stamp President, confounding his critics by speaking out on a range of issues. India's 10th President was elected to office in an unprecedented social revolution, winning 95 per cent of the votes of the Electoral College, made up of representatives from both Houses of Parliament and legislative assemblies of the state. He defeated his rival T N Seshan, a formidable, feisty Brahmin Election Commissioner who had put the fear of God into Indian politicians. The defeated candidate angrily dismissed the decision. KRN won, Seshan pointed out 'only because he was a Dalit.' Six days before Narayanan became President, police opened fire on a Dalit protest, killing nine unarmed Dalits.

In his acceptance speech, KRN noted: 'That the nation has found for its highest office someone who has sprung from the grassroots, is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man [sic] have now moved to the center stage of our political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.'

Now 84, he is courteous and charming, giving of his time generously despite a painful, debilitating illness.

From a village hut to the presidential palace in Delhi is a long way. How did it happen?

'Frankly, I don't know. I did not really try for these things, aim for anything very big. Most things came by chance, a combination of circumstances, rather than my own effort. I suffered as a Dalit, had my share of humiliation, but I did not view myself as a suffering Dalit. I did not have a feeling of bitterness.

'Born in 1920 and living in a small village, there was diversity and discrimination. But not of such intensity as the atrocities that one hears of nowadays. How I got out of it was: I always wanted to study. There was a Malayalam primary school in my village. There were several times when I could have dropped out. We had to pay fees and Father had very little money. The management co-operated up to a point, but after months of no fees they sent me home. Father scraped together a little money and sent me back. It was always touch and go. Frequently I had to stand in the corner or on the bench for non-payment of fees.

'Later, when I moved to Kerala to study, the perennial problem of poverty loomed threateningly overhead. My uncle knew a government lawyer. He wrote him a letter asking if I could eat with his family. I was very shy about going to someone for food. My good friend Mathew came with me. I was outside the door with the letter, saying: "I don't want to go in." Mathew pushed me in. Literally physically gave me a push so I fell inside the door. The lawyer said: "Just a minute, let me consult my wife." He went inside, came back and said: "You can come for lunch and dinner every day." He was an exceptionally good man. And in spite of all the problems I finished my degree.'

With typical modesty, he does not mention that he got a first, coming top of the whole university that year. There followed a promise by the Maharaja's Chief Minister, the Diwan, that he should be sent to Oxford. But the Diwan went back on his promise, saying: 'Who does this Harijan (Gandhi's term for Dalits, literally 'God's people') fellow think he is coming to see me with a silk jibba and a gold watch?' KRN replied that he 'never owned a silk jibba. I wear only khadi (Indian homespun cotton). And the watch is a rolled gold one presented to me by a friend after I passed with a first. If the Diwan is that petty, I don't want anything from him.'

After failing to procure an interview with the Maharaja, KRN declined to accept his degree, skipping the convocation, an unthinkable act in those feudal times. The British Resident asked, 'Where is the Harijan boy who came first?' This caused a furore in Kerala.

'Revolution has to come from below - through education and through protests from the oppressed people'
'From then on I was determined to go to Delhi. The Chief Secretary called me, "How will you go to Delhi? It is freezing there. You will need warm clothes. I will give you a loan of 500 rupees". I replied, "I can't pay you back." He insisted. 'It's OK. It will be a loan in name only. You need money for clothes, your train fare etc." So I purchased my first and only suit, a railway ticket, some essentials. And a new chapter of my life started.'

KRN then moved to Delhi and on to a distinguished career which included a degree at the London School of Economics, a period as a journalist, time as a diplomat, an academic, ambassador to the United States, Vice-President and finally President of India. As President, he spoke up on behalf of women, Dalits and tribal people.

Why does India have this paradox, on the one hand the best IT experts in the world, on the other the feudal caste system? And why hasn't it changed despite a strong Constitution?

'Fifty years is a miniscule period for the caste system which has survived for thousands of years. The caste system has fundamentally been attacked by very few people. Even the lower castes found it convenient, a kind of safety system to manage, mingle in society. Everyone had someone to exploit. Though there were many challenges, no fundamental revision was ever attempted. There was a great vision at Independence but too many people found it a useful system. The opposition was basically related to land struggles and the feudal economic system in existence. Morally only Gandhi shook the system, but the economic foundations were too strong. So when it came to the question of destroying it, as far as the mind is concerned, everyone would say it is bad and we should destroy it. But the economic foundation of caste had to be uprooted and no-one really wanted to do that. Today, caste is being perpetuated by politics and politicians.'

How can we change this?

'Revolution has to come from below - through education and through protests from the oppressed people. We need to gather much more momentum, from world opinion, human-rights groups, etc. We need to give up the bitterness and move on. To be proud of being Dalits. Learn from the Black Panthers, the Black is Beautiful movement. Assert Dalit pride. Only then will we learn to express and assert ourselves. I believe that ultimately we will overcome.'

Bobby Zindal is a joke. He praised Bush thousand times in order to get in inside the so called extremist base of the republican party. To be honest, he has no talent to be a good governor. Some time I think people think thet because they are indian decent, they are full of talent. But not this guy. he is a just bitter opportunist and i guess the republican party are wasting their time for this guy.He will be knocked out by Obama in the first round.

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/13/india15303.htm

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - FEBRUARY 13, 2007 REPORT

India: 'Hidden Apartheid' of Discrimination Against Dalits

Government Fails to End Caste-Based Segregation and Attacks

(New York, February 13, 2007) - India has systematically failed to uphold its international legal obligations to ensure the fundamental human rights of Dalits, or so-called untouchables, despite laws and policies against caste discrimination, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. More than 165 million Dalits in India are condemned to a lifetime of abuse simply because of their caste (color of their skin).

The 113-page report, "Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination against India's 'Untouchables'," was produced as a "shadow report" in response to India's submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). The committee will review India's compliance with the convention during hearings in Geneva on February 23 and 26.

On December 27, 2006 Manmohan Singh became the first sitting Indian prime minister to openly acknowledge the parallel between the practice of "untouchability" and the crime of apartheid. Singh described "untouchability" as a "blot on humanity" adding that "even after 60 years of constitutional and legal protection and state support, there is still social discrimination against Dalits in many parts of our country."

"Prime Minister Singh has rightly compared 'untouchability' to apartheid, and he should now turn his words into action to protect the rights of Dalits," said Professor Smita Narula, faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law, and co-author of the report. "The Indian government can no longer deny its collusion in maintaining a system of entrenched social and economic segregation."

Dalits endure segregation in housing, schools, and access to public services. They are denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely abused at the hands of the police and upper-caste community members who enjoy the state's protection. Entrenched discrimination violates Dalits' rights to education, health, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment, and equal treatment before the law. Dalits also suffer routine violations of their right to life and security of person through state-sponsored or -sanctioned acts of violence, including torture.

Caste-motivated killings, rapes, and other abuses are a daily occurrence in India. Between 2001 and 2002 close to 58,000 cases were registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act - legislation that criminalizes particularly egregious abuses against Dalits and tribal community members. A 2005 government report states that a crime is committed against a Dalit every 20 minutes. Though staggering, these figures represent only a fraction of actual incidents since many Dalits do not register cases for fear of retaliation by the police and upper-caste individuals.

Both state and private actors commit these crimes with impunity. Even on the relatively rare occasions on which a case reaches court, the most likely outcome is acquittal. Indian government reports reveal that between 1999 and 2001 as many as 89 percent of trials involving offenses against Dalits resulted in acquittals.

A resolution passed by the European Parliament on February 1, 2007 found India's efforts to enforce laws protecting Dalits to be "grossly inadequate," adding that "atrocities, untouchability, illiteracy, [and] inequality of opportunity, continue to blight the lives of India's Dalits." The resolution called on the Indian government to engage with CERD in its efforts to end caste-based discrimination. Dalit leaders welcomed the resolution, but Indian officials dismissed it as lacking in "balance and perspective."

"International scrutiny is growing and with it the condemnation of abuses resulting from the caste system and the government's failure to protect Dalits," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "India needs to mobilize the entire government and make good on its paper commitments to end caste abuses. Otherwise, it risks pariah status for its homegrown brand of apartheid."

Attempts by Dalits to defy the caste order, to demand their rights, or to lay claim to land that is legally theirs are consistently met with economic boycotts or retaliatory violence. For example, in Punjab on January 5, 2006 Dalit laborer and activist Bant Singh, seeking the prosecution of the people who gang-raped his daughter, was beaten so severely that both arms and one leg had to be amputated. On September 26, 2006 in Kherlanji village, Maharashtra, a Dalit family was killed by an upper-caste mob, after the mother and daughter were stripped, beaten and paraded through the village and the two brothers were brutally beaten. They were attacked because they refused to let upper-caste farmers take their land. After widespread protests at the police's failure to arrest the perpetrators, some of those accused in the killing were finally arrested and police and medical officers who had failed to do their jobs were suspended from duty.

Exploitation of labor is at the very heart of the caste system. Dalits are forced to perform tasks deemed too "polluting" or degrading for non-Dalits to carry out. According to unofficial estimates, more than 1.3 million Dalits - mostly women - are employed as manual scavengers to clear human waste from dry pit latrines. In several cities, Dalits are lowered into manholes without protection to clear sewage blockages, resulting in more than 100 deaths each year from inhalation of toxic gases or from drowning in excrement. Dalits comprise the majority of agricultural, bonded, and child laborers in the country. Many survive on less than US$1 per day.

In January 2007 the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded that Dalit women in India suffer from "deeply rooted structural discrimination." "Hidden Apartheid" records the plight of Dalit women and the multiple forms of discrimination they face. Abuses documented in the report include sexual abuse by the police and upper-caste men, forced prostitution, and discrimination in employment and the payment of wages.

Dalit children face consistent hurdles in access to education. They are made to sit in the back of classrooms and endure verbal and physical harassment from teachers and students. The effect of such abuses is borne out by the low literacy and high drop-out rates for Dalits.

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch call on CERD to scrutinize the gap between India's human rights commitments and the daily reality faced by Dalits. In particular, CERD should request that the Indian government:

Identify measures taken to ensure appropriate reforms to eliminate police abuses against Dalits and other marginalized communities;

Provide concrete plans to implement laws and government policies to protect Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, from physical and sexual violence;

Identify steps taken to eradicate caste-based segregation in residential areas and schools, and in access to public services; and,

Outline plans to ensure the effective eradication of exploitative labor arrangements and effective implementation of rehabilitation schemes for Dalit bonded and child laborers, manual scavengers, and for Dalit women forced into prostitution.
"International outrage over the treatment of Dalits is matched by growing national discontent," Smita Narula said. "India can't ignore the voices of 165 million citizens."

"Hidden Apartheid" is based on in-depth investigations by CHRGJ, Human Rights Watch, Indian non-governmental organizations, and media sources. The pervasiveness of abuses against Dalits is corroborated by the reports of Indian governmental agencies, including the National Human Rights Commission, and the National Commission on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. These and other sources were compiled, investigated, and analyzed under international law by NYU School of Law's International Human Rights Clinic.

Background

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is a body of independent experts responsible for monitoring states' compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), ratified by India in 1968. It guarantees rights of non-discrimination on the basis of "race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin." In 1996 CERD concluded that the plight of Dalits falls squarely under the prohibition of descent-based discrimination. As a state party to ICERD, India is obligated to submit periodic reports detailing its implementation of rights guaranteed under the convention. During the review session CERD examines these reports and engages in constructive dialogue with the state party, addressing its concerns and offering recommendations. CERD uses supplementary information contained in non-governmental organization "shadow reports" to evaluate states' reports. India's
report to CERD, eight years overdue, covers compliance with the convention from 1996 to 2006 yet does not contain a single mention of abuses against Dalits - abuses that India's own governmental agencies have documented and verified.

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Related Material

"Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination against India's 'Untouchables'"
Report, February 13, 2007

India's Dalits: between atrocity and protest
Commentary, January 12, 2007

Letter to Prime Minister Singh of India from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch
Letter, February 14, 2007

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Hey raj,

Look what your indian CEO Mr. Pandit of Citi bank did to the Citi Group. Since he took over the citi bank for last one year is going down to the drain and now citi is in the verse of being bankcrupt.

I Know from my personal experience that Bobby Jindal is an exceptionally good governor and polititian who is committed to the cause of the position he took. It is true that inspite of the recent economic growth in india caste system and poverty is pitable. Hinduism is still a caste based, Aryan dominated exploiting religion. They always need slaves or low caste people. Now fundamentalist Hindu groups are promoting violence against poor tribal people in India. It is a corrupt country.

Here is an example that confirms that the light skinned "Aryan" Hindus, who live here in the United States, are RACIST. I am a teacher - and I know many "Aryan" Hindus, who would not allow their kids to socialize (be friends) with kids of color let alone date a colored person. This is RACISM sanctioned by the HINDU "religion" (ideology)

Please read the news story below
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http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/stories/2008/06/27/sparkle_rai_contract_killing.html

Sparkle Reid Rai Killing

Chiman Rai gets life for contract killing of son's wife

By STEVE VISSER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 06/27/08

A Fulton County jury sentenced Chiman Rai to life in prison Friday, the day after he was convicted of ordering a hitman to kill his daughter-in-law.

Prosecutors had sought the death penalty.

Sparkle Rai, then 22, was strangled and stabbed 8 years ago. And while her breath was being choked from her, she reached toward her baby daughter, Analla.

Those are just some of the facts that make the murder so different from the more than 100 killings that Fulton County suffers every year and why Chiman Rai should be sentenced to death, prosecutor Sheila Ross told a Superior Court jury today.

"This particular murder, outrageous, wantonly vile," Ross said. "The brutal murder of this young mother not only justifies but demands the death penalty."

Rai, 68, had Sparkle killed because she married his son a month earlier, and Rai viewed the young woman as unacceptable because she was black, prosecutors have said.

Sparkle Rai was murdered April 26, 2000 in her Union City apartment and the case went unsolved until a break two years ago indicated that her relationship with Rajeeve "Ricky" Rai, now 27, was the motive.

Defense lawyer Don Samuel argued that while Rai may have hired a hit man, he didn't order such a brutal killing. And while there was evidence that Rai, a native of India, believed his son's marriage would cast a stigma on his family in caste-conscious Indian society, Samuel said Rai wasn't a racist and had strong support in the African-American community in Jackson, Miss., where he had run a grocery and other businesses.

"It is not necessary for you to kill Chiman Rai," Samuel told jurors. "This was not a crime motivated by greed and while I know the prosecution disagrees with me, this was not a hate crime.

"He did it out of some perverted belief that it was in the best interest of his son."

Donna Lowry, Sparkle Rai's stepmother, testified and asked jurors to think of Sparkle's child Analla, who is being raised by Lowry and Sparkle's father, Bennet Reid.

"I'm here to speak for someone whose voice will not be heard in this courtroom, she is too young," said Lowry, a reporter for WXIA-TV.

She said the last time she saw Sparkle Rai was with Analla at church on Easter Sunday 2000.

"It is very painful for me to think of what happened to her three days later," Lowry said.

On the day her mother's body was found, Analla never cried as if she was in shock, Lowry said. And then for months, the baby would wake up screaming in the night.

The family has told Analla that her mother is in heaven and have tried to shield the elementary school student from the details of her mother's death, Lowry said.

She noted the Analla is inquisitive but never has asked how her mother died. Lowry dreads the day that changes.

"Someday she will ask and that will be one of the hardest conversations we'll ever have." Lowry said. "Then she'll know she was there when it happened."

I concur with the opinion expressed by Zeg. I worked in Southern India for an NGO that run programs to help the poorest of the poor in the region. The people have African physical features and are the most oppressed and neglected people in India.

Click on the link below to read articles written by natives of the region and also see some pictures.

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/pasa.html

Anyone who needs additional information about India can send their email to Dr. Iniyan Elango @

tamilhumanrights@hotmail.com

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Iniyan Elango, M.D. graduated from the Madras Medical College in 1989 with a degree in Medicine and Surgery. He subsequently studied and traveled extensively in Europe and the United States for three years. He is the author of Without Malice: The Truth About India. Dr. Elango can be contacted at tamilhumanrights@hotmail.com

Hey raj,

Look what your indian CEO Mr. Pandit of Citi bank did to the Citi Group. Since he took over the citi bank for last one year is going down to the drain and now citi is in the verse of being bankcrupt.

11. Posted by WATCHDOG2009 | November 22, 2008 7:44 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)

Hey, Watchdog group,

Whoever you are, you only found one Indian CEO of City Bank, who just took over the bank which was going down few years back, and you think he took bank to bankcorruptcywhat about,those helliburton, Enron, Fannimae, and many banks... you need calculator to count? How many more will go down.. keep watching, just today two community banks failed. What about all your 401ks?

Stop blaming Mr. Pandit, because he is an india decent.The Satement you made"look what your Indian CEO" is itself shows who is racist.

Think twice before blaming others and look inside your heart. It might get worse.

Bobby Zindal is a joke. He praised Bush thousand times in order to get in inside the so called extremist base of the republican party. To be honest, he has no talent to be a good governor. Some time I think people think thet because they are indian decent, they are full of talent. But not this guy. he is a just bitter opportunist and i guess the republican party are wasting their time for this guy.He will be knocked out by Obama in the first round.

9. Posted by WATCHDOG2009 | November 22, 2008 7:39 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)

Hey watchdog, When you call Gov. Bobby Jindal a joke. You need to go back to your finding and see, what he really is?

Look for your self Jokers don't go this far, but educated people do.!!
Here is Gov . Bobby Jindals histoy, well eduacated, experienced, worked as Assistant Secretary for planning and evaluation, United States department of Health and Human Services and more....

Education:
Masters, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1994
Bachelors, Biology/Public Policy, Brown University, 1991.

Professional Experience:
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2001
President, University of Louisiana System, 1999-2001
Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, 1996-1998
Consultant, McKinsey and Company, 1994-1995.

Political Experience:
Governor, State of Louisiana, 2008-present
Assistant Majority Whip/Representative, United States House of Representatives, 2004-2008
Candidate, Governor of Louisiana, 2003.

Thank God we have google.com

National Intelligence Council (NIC) Report

GLOBAL TRENDS 2025: A TRANSFORMED WORLD

NOVEMBER 2008
NIC 2008-003

http://www.acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/3/Global-Trends-2025.pdf

dear raj

please dont loose ur precious time on w.dog,,,,w.dog can only watch the things they can not evaluate the things,convey my best wishes to BOBBY and support too and we are sure for his term in white house
cheers