What’s in a name or Americanize me?

All across our great nation, state legislatures are either entering “Birth Certificate” laws or getting ready to vote on such laws.

Arizona, Louisiana, Maine, Wisconsin and so on will be voting on such laws. All because a guy with a funny name, who has a parent from another country, won the Presidency of the United States of America, Barrack Hussein Obama.

So as the “Birther” notion over the release of the long form birth certificate of Pres. “O” dissipates, another one begins.

Louisiana Gov. Piyush Jindal released his long form birth certificate over the weekend, but no one really noticed except a few newspapers.

Why?

Because Gov Piyush Jindal said he will sign the law, if it comes across his desk, that if you want to be on the state's election ballot, you must show your long form birth certificate.

Who is Piyush Jindal you ask? You might know him by the name “Bobby” Jindal, the once Republican Presidential hopeful of 2009.

Here’s the kicker, no one ever suspected “Bobby” Jindal of being anything other than American, maybe because he goes by the name “Bobby” and not his birth name of Piyush.

When Pres. “O” was young, he would go by the name “Barry” and one has to wonder, if he still went by that, would anyone care about his birth certificate? Would he be considered American with the name "Barry?"

Oh, the Tabloid Media went ape reporting the fact he went by "Barry" in his youth, yet no one said two words concerning Gov Jindal use of "Bobby" when he ran for one of many political positions.

Both the Pres and Louisiana Gov where born in the United States. But as Pres “O” mom was a natural born American from Kansas and dad was here on a student visa from Kenya, both of Jindal’s parents were here on 2 different forms of Green Cards. So does that make Gov Jindal an "anchor baby?"

Mr. Jindal’s parents, Raj & Amar came here from India in 1971. Jindal's father secured a working Green card as he was an engineer. Mrs. Jindal secured a spousal Green card and attended graduate school at Louisiana State University for nuclear physics. Mrs. Jindal was already pregnant when arriving in the US, giving birth later that year to little Piyush.

OK, stop there. Is this not what people are accusing foreign immigrants of doing today? Coming to the United States on student or working visas, then having a child born here so they can stay?

I'm not accusing Gov Jindal's family of doing so, just making a note that today that is the complaint of so many. Or maybe it's sectional, they are only complaining about those that don't give back and become a debt to society.

After all, the Jindal's were able to secure their Green cards due to a 1965 law that allowed people with "exceptional ability in the sciences or arts" to enter the U.S.

But why does he go by the name "Bobby?"

Well apparently when he was the age of 4, the Brady Bunch was the big hit and so "Bobby" comes from Bobby Brady!!

Seriously, they couldn't say "Bobby Kennedy" or any famous Bobby at the time? They had to use the whining Bobby Brady.

So, here's the question; If Barrack Obama went by the name "Barry" and his father became a US citizen would people still have raised the "Birther" notion?

I say "No," however the controversy would be whether he would have been considered an "Anchor Baby" even though his father was here on a Student visa and became a US Citizen.

Louisiana Senator David Vitter is introducing a "birthright citizenship" law. The law would restrict "birthright citizenship" to children born in the US to at least one parent who is a citizen, legal resident alien or active member of the US armed forces.

If the law passes, then both President "O" and Gov Jindal would be elligable for the "birthright citizenship" we so much love. Pres "O" since his mom is an American citizen born in Kansas and Gov Jindal because both his parents were here on 2 different forms of Green cards.

It's rather funny that even the outsourced jobs to India of telemarketing or debt collection have their employees go by American names when calling customers.

Why? So when you answer your phone, you think they have immigrated here and decided that changing their name was the "American" thing to do.

We are very close to having a President Maverick or a Vice President Apple considering how parents are naming their children nowadays. But those names are used by fans of the movie Top Gun or Gwenyth Paltrow

Will we then question the sanity of the parents for the naming of their child?

It's not that far away that older Americans will have to adapt to the idea of a foreign president in the terms of Gender and Race. Or can Americans be racist and not even know it?

Then again, it's only a name.

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