Bobby Jindal does push-ups before Republican debate

Washington, Aug 6: Bobby Jindal may not have made the cut for Thursday's prime time debate among top ten Republican presidential contenders, but he is nevertheless getting ready in a different way - by doing push ups literally. Louisiana's Indian-American governor, who along with six other bottom candidates has been relegated to a secondary forum earlier in the day by hosts Fox News, went elbow to elbow in a 'push-up contest' with his top foes in a BuzzFeed video. Each of the 'issues' confronting him - taxes, Obamacare, hyphenated Americans and, of course, his own awkward delivery of the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama's first speech to Congress - is represented by an individual. A "Tanned. Rested. Ready" Jindal, as his campaign slogan puts it, in formal wear, including a neck-tie, does really well, beats most of the contestants, but then gets 'totaled'. Mother Jones, an American magazine featuring investigative and breaking news reporting, noted kindly: "It's some real Rocky IV stuff". "As the governor knows well, be it a 17-person race or a 2-person race, coming in second is not going to be enough, ever, to get either into the governor's mansion or the president's White House," it said.