“Ever since arriving at the Longville church for today’s event, the governor has been sprinting through his “New Louisiana” stump speech, a self-promotional recap of his 10 months in office, at the relentless pace expected of a guy who graduated from Brown at 21, completed his Rhodes scholarship at 23, ran Louisiana’s Health and Hospitals department at 25, presided over the University of Louisiana system at 28 and served in Washington as an assistant secretary of health and human services and two-term U.S. congressman before becoming the country’s first Indian-American governor at the advanced age of 36. Swimming in his blue blazer, the 5-foot-11, 135-pound Jindal looks more like a bashful science-fair contestant than the latest successor to flamboyant Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, and if it weren’t for Jindal’s lavish Southern drawl, he’d risk sounding more like one, too; this morning’s remarks, like nearly everything he says, have consisted largely of the phrase “a couple of things” followed by a flurry of details, statistics and multipart plans.”
“Ever since arriving at the Longville church for today’s event, the governor has been sprinting through his “New Louisiana” stump speech, a self-promotional recap of his 10 months in office, at the relentless pace expected of a guy who graduated from Brown at 21, completed his Rhodes scholarship at 23, ran Louisiana’s Health and Hospitals department at 25, presided over the University of Louisiana system at 28 and served in Washington as an assistant secretary of health and human services and two-term U.S. congressman before becoming the country’s first Indian-American governor at the advanced age of 36. Swimming in his blue blazer, the 5-foot-11, 135-pound Jindal looks more like a bashful science-fair contestant than the latest successor to flamboyant Louisiana Gov. Huey Long, and if it weren’t for Jindal’s lavish Southern drawl, he’d risk sounding more like one, too; this morning’s remarks, like nearly everything he says, have consisted largely of the phrase “a couple of things” followed by a flurry of details, statistics and multipart plans.”
