Has anyone verified Jindal's "Rhodes Scholar" credentials?

[marylanddem]

He seems as dumb as a stump. If true, Oxford was certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel with that dip.

edited to add: people are always claiming hotshot credentials...

[cliffordu]

1. I was shocked at that tidbit. He's an idiot.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. W was a Yale and Harvard grad.

He doesn't really reflect well on either school.

[sarge43]

14. Same schools Bush went to. That's a depressing thought. n/t

[Mrs. Overall]

3. More like "Roads Scholar" if you ask me.

[Bozita]

6. Like in "Easy Rider"?

[Mrs. Overall]

10. Yes, like "Road House" or the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour".

[Bozita]

22. Or like Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" -- see photo

[DemoTex]

23. I saw an 18-wheeler in Georgia a few weeks back ..

Down the side of the trailer in very large letters was the name of the trucking firm: ROAD SCHOLAR.

:eyes:

[KatyMan]

4. Demand the 'vault copy'

of his scholarship :)

[HereSince1628]

5. Getting an education, and using an education are 2 different things

Think of the long list of WH staff in the Bush admin that put their educations to scurrilous uses.
Think of the long list of RW broadcasters that put their educations to scurrilous uses.
Think of the long list of religious fundamentalists that put their educations to scurrilous uses.

[petronius]

7. And more broadly, being at a place where an education is available is

not the same as getting an education...

[HereSince1628]

24. So, true.

A fact that many students in my classroom don't seem to fathom.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. The qualifications are rather nebulous

Not like purely academic scholarships. In this country, you're chosen from the applicants by a politican (U.S. Senator?).

[yurbud]

9. He did get a mail order degree from Rhode Island...

[wuushew]

11. Cecil Rhodes was an unabashed imperialist

why honor his memory?

[ThomWV]

16. who died 107 years ago - so what has that got to do with today's issues?

[Mist]

12. Seems Jindal IS actually a Rhodes scholar:

http://www.americanrhodes.org/

[marylanddem]

18. Thanks - I found him on the Oxford site too.

He's still full of shit, though.

[bbernardini]

13. They meant he knew a lot about the Fender Rhodes electric piano:

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[foxfeet]

15. I'm betting he didn't study geology. . .

[Kip Humphrey]

17. He wasn't even conceived in this country! Has anyone seen his birth certificate?!!!

:rofl:

[SmileyRose]

20. beat me to it.

:headbang:

[SoCalDem]

21. He's the quintessential "anchor Bobby"

with a couple of visas & an American-born child, his parents got the fast-track back then, and probably "invited" more members of their family to join them.. just as many NOW are vilified when they try the same thing..

[SmileyRose]

19. I refuse to believe he's a legitimate governor until I see his original birth certificate

snark

[Fleshdancer]

25. It's true. The New Oxford Review even published his paper on Exorcism:

Yep. Exocism. Beating Deamons. Physical Dimensions of Spiritual Warfare.

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1294-jindal

Bobby Jindal received his M.Litt. in Politics earlier this year from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently an Associate at McKinsey & Co. in Washington, D.C. He has been accepted at Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, and has the option of returning to Oxford for a D.Phil. in Politics. He will be deciding which path to pursue soon. A convert to Christianity, he was born and raised Hindu. Some of the names in this article, but none of the details, have been altered by the author.

Though she had not said anything, I knew something was wrong. Susan and I had developed an intimate friendship; indeed, our rela­tionship mystified observers, who insisted on finding a romantic component where none existed. I called her after the University Christian Fellowship (UCF) meeting -- UCF is an Inter-Varsity Christian group composed of undergraduate and graduate students. Though the interdenominational group's weekly program of songs and prayers had produced the usual emotional high among most members, Susan had left the meeting in a very sullen mood. I asked her to join a group of us who were attending a Chris­tian a cappella concert to be held on campus that same evening.

Despite our intimacy, Susan and I had not spent much time together this past year. We had succumbed to pressure from our friends and de­cided we should not be so emotionally interdependent without a deeper commitment. To be honest, my fears of a relationship and the constraints of commitment had kept us apart; our friends' objec­tions merely provided a convenient excuse. Still, I felt comfortable asking her to come to the concert, and she accepted the invitation. Though Susan ap­peared composed throughout the concert, her sud­den departure in the middle of a song convinced me otherwise and affirmed my earlier suspicions.