Bobby Jindal's Fading Star

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is a talented executive who, in his attempt to please conservative ideologues, adopted reckless fiscal policies that have run his state into the ground. He is also the latest Republican to enter the presidential race.

Jindal began his career as a wonky wunderkind: The son of Indian immigrants, he was a Rhodes scholar who became secretary of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals at age 24, president of Louisiana's university system at 28, and assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at 30. After a stint in Congress, he was elected governor, and whispers of the White House started swirling. But from the beginning, he seemed to want it too much.