Did Jindal legally change his first name to Bobby?

[Avalux]

I'm just wondering, with all the back and forth about his birth name and nickname. If he didn't, then his name is Piyush on his birth certificate and other legal documents.

Does anyone know?

[Sultana]

1. NO

[Mass]

2. Who cares? He is problematic because of his ideas, not the name he uses.

[Avalux]

4. I disagree; the name he uses is relevant.

Partly because calling himself Bobby makes him seem less 'foreign' to his base. If he used Piyush, they wouldn't accept him as readily. It's the hypocrisy that's so prevalent in the Republican party.

[Mass]

7. The fact he is indian and dark skin makes him foreign to his base.

They are racist. You wanting to point out at his foreign origin just shows that you are ready to use racism. Not a good feeling. Sad indeed on DU.

[Avalux]

9. Excuse me?

I'm not ready to use racism - be careful in your judgments. I am simply making an observation.

[Mass]

10. Good. So drop the topic. Go back to explaining why GOP ideas are bad for regular people.

of all colors and origin.

[Occam Bandage]

11. If you're not ready to use racism, then call him by the name he prefers to be known. nt

[atreides1]

14. As soon as he asks

I'll refer to him as Bobby.

[Occam Bandage]

21. I don't believe Obama ever specifically asked people to not call him "President Hussein,"

nor would he. That doesn't mean that there isn't clear racist intent there.

[Avalux]

16. My OP asked a question; I didn't make a preference.

Now that I think about it though - I prefer to call him Booby. ;-)

[atreides1]

12. His Base

Would that be the base that doesn't seem to have had a problem with shooting blacks trying to get out of New Orleans during Katrina, is that the base you're talking about?

I don't recall Mr. Jindal ever condemning what was done, but then again most racist wouldn't, would they?

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

The GOP have made a great deal of political hay over President B. Hussein Obama's name. Why should we not do a bit of agriculture with Governor Piyush Jindal's name?

[Occam Bandage]

8. Because they're racist and we're supposedly not? nt

[sandnsea]

15. Because we're exposing hypocrisy

and obviously don't remotely care about his ethnicity.

[Occam Bandage]

22. And what better way to expose hypocrisy than by becoming enormous hypocrites ourselves? nt

[sandnsea]

24. Right, and condemning toe tapping in public bathrooms

is homophobic too.

If one applied the lofty standards of every DUer - nobody would be able to say anything anymore.

There isn't a thing in the world wrong with using Jindal's given name to drive the point home about how stupid the right is when they make an issue over Obama's name. That's all there is to it.

[Occam Bandage]

34. Ah, yes. Race-baiting hypocrisy is fine if the other side did it first.

Because then you're not actually a race-baiting hypocrite, you're just pretending to be in hopes of pointing out that the other side is a bunch of hypocritical race-baiters.

I think we should all totally get behind that, yeah. Because that definitely sounds like a good thing to do.

[sandnsea]

36. Yes, you totally should

because if we haven't learned that the only way to get through to the dimbulbs on the right is to feed them their own medicine - then we haven't learned anything.

I bet you pee your pants when they tell you to stop playing the "race card" too.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Key Word: Supposedly. n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. His legal first name is Piyush

From his Wikipedia article

Piyush Jindal (pronounced /ˈdʒɪndəl/) was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who had recently arrived for Amar to attend graduate school at Louisiana State University. His father, Amar, left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in 1970 and his parents took their citizenship oaths later that year to become naturalized citizens. His mother, Raj, is an information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor. According to family lore, Jindal chose to re-name himself "Bobby" inspired by the sitcom character Bobby Brady after watching The Brady Bunch television series at the age of four. He has been known by his self-adopted nickname ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.

[Avalux]

5. Thank you. n/t

[pipi_k]

27. aiyeeeeeee...!!!! now that's disturbing!!!!

Oh, not his name...

his birthdate.

I'm old enough to be his mother, for crissakes!

My son was born in 1970, my daughter in 1972

I'm old enough to be the mom of a guy who's a governor!!!


aughhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!


hobbling off with my walker to take a nap before Bingo....

:yoiks:

[MgtPA]

42. I'll tell you what's really disturbing - naming yourself after a character on...

... The Brady Bunch.

[Wickerman]

13. Whatever he is called he is a dangerous asshole

and I'm glad we have seen the end of political career. If we haven't, we as a society are too fucking stupid to continue.

[Common Sense Party]

19. You think one speech that no one but political junkies watched

is going to end the guy's career?

[Wickerman]

23. Well, if you look around the media today, he is getting a lot of attention

None of it approaching positive, unless its by the paid for RW's.

How many people watched Jimmy the Greek make disparaging remarks about African Americans? He died 10 years after his statement made to a single reporter over dinner without having worked in years.

Rinse and repeat similar stories. It wasn't the speech itself (though that should be enough) its the fallout that will continue.

[jus_the_facts]

20. fuckin' stupid is something Murkins have gotten used to unfortunately....

...over the last 8 years especially...yes society is definitley too fuckin' stupid indeed.

[Wickerman]

25. Call me an incurable optimist, but I think a fresh does of Obama

is raising our collective IQ. I think we've, as a nation, had enough of stupid and won't be led by the 23% crowd of knuckle draggers any longer.

[mscuedawg]

17. He needs to change his last name to McCain...

b/c I SWORE watching him last night...he had the same mannerisms as McCain...

[cbc5g]

26. More importantly, who the fuck uses "Bobby" at his age?

Thats like a high school name.

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. What did they call RFK? What do we call RFK to this day?

I even saw RFK referred to yesterday as "OUR Bobby".

[nsd]

31. I'll point out that a gracious and far-seeing man goes by "Jimmy".

That would be President Carter to you.

[Occam Bandage]

35. Or Teddy or Jimmy? What kind of retards use those?

[WinkyDink]

37. Sounds like that's where you are.

[LostinVA]

40. Bobby Kennedy

[Tyler Generation]

28. I'm just gonna call him Sanjaya

Because that is about as relevant he'll be in 2012.

[Aristus]

30. Piyush Jindal. Hmm. Sounds like the name of one of the terrorists in Mumbai.

Ergo, Jindal is a terrorist...


:sarcasm:

[nakanishi oshi]

32. Michelle Malkin's real name: Nee Maglagan

I can't stand her, .but I wouldn't see the point in not calling her by the name we all know her by. It's like screaming: "look, a philipino woman!

[ecstatic]

33. hmm... I didn't know that...!

She makes racist comments about Asians all the time and I'm not surprised that she would try to disassociate herself completely from Asian culture.

[City Lights]

38. According to Wiki, her birth name is Michelle Maglagan.

"nee" refers to her maiden name, which is Maglagan. She married Jesse Malkin and took his surname when she married him.

[LostinVA]

39. Perhaps you should read Skinner's OP in GD about this

[Numba6]

41. People do it all the time, nicknames, & it's legal w/o going to court

don't matter... you can call yourself by any nickname, use it on legal documents, checks, etc.

As long as you are not trying to hide your true identity for fraudulent or criminal purposes, or fake an official document/SSN/etc. by pretending to be someone else.

that's why I sign my IRS forms as "The True King of the Netherlands". They still cash the check.