By Bruce Alpert, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune
on March 09, 2013 at 10:15 PM, updated March 09, 2013 at 10:16 PM
Washington – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal poked fun at himself, fellow Republicans and, of course, President Barack Obama, as he delivered the Republican speech Saturday night at the 128th annual Gridiron Club and Foundation dinner.
Jindal drew some big laughs, and he delivered a series of one-liners in the traditional Washington night of political high jinks.
“You may not realize this, but even though the president may look calm and relaxed, he is sitting here right now shaking in his boots. He’s terrified that I’ll upstage him again – like I did in that State of the Union response a few years ago,” Jindal said to loud laughter from the crowd of 650 at a Washington hotel ballroom.
The 2009 speech was widely panned.
After his “infamous speech,” Jindal said “people wrote and said a lot of mean stuff,” though when they spoke to him in person they were “as kind as can be.”
“But there was one exception to that,” Jindal said. “My dad. He called that night and said simply this – ‘I told you to go medical school.'”
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