Bobby Jindal - Pre-existing for the Presidency?

Bobby Jindal is another "name" jettisoned into the public arena for the Andy Warhol fame game. Bobby is from a Punjabi Indian family. As the United States enters the second decade of the 21st Century, it is moving fast towards an ethnically diverse nation where anyone can get along and be American. When I was a child all Americans were white it seemed. Only the president had a German name, the rest were just American versions of the British. Then there was a real debate about having a Catholic president. Which seemed odd, since nobody questioned having a series of protestants. Then there was the question of having a Southerner as president, although it seemed it was more about peanuts than politics. A woman? Could Hillary Clinton be the first woman president? They all went ape on the TV news. But before they could finish that debate, along came Obama to be the first African-American president. A real African-American, or more properly, a Kenyan-American.

Not to be outdone, the Republican party has put forward Bobby Jindal. They could have put up anyone to respond to Obama's trillion zillion cashpot ideas. Bobby got the job. In his talk he mentioned his parents coming from a distant land, India. His mother was already pregnant, what Bobby calls a "pre-existing condition" from the insurance industry's inhouse dictionary. It just enables him to be in his own pre-existing condition for a potential presidential run. Sooner or later this native-born American rule will have to end. If his mother had gone into labour early he could be an Indian-born American and be in the Arnold Schwarzenegger position.

American politics is a bit like a Simon Cowell talent show. "GOP's Got Talent - premiering this Fall on NBC!". Bobby was up next and seems to be a star in the making. He could be the first Catholic Southern Indian Republican president! Watch this space as they say.