However, I am still uncomfortable with all the brou-ha ha about him being paraded as some sort of token representation – but that is just me !

“In about any year, Jindal would be a natural, because he’s the closest thing to a minority that the Republicans have,” said Louisiana State University professor Bob Mann, a former adviser to Democratic politicians who now teaches political communication.

Mann noted that Republicans, who typically garner little more than 10 percent of the African-American vote in presidential elections, have a recent history of giving prominent convention roles to African-Americans: Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice and J.C. Watts and to others with atypical backgrounds, such as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Beyond your misquote of me, my point was and is: Jindal is the only minority in the Republican Party serving in any major elected position — member of Congress, governor, big-city mayor, etc. He’s it. As for Colin Powell, I seriously doubt he could get elected in a Republican district. In any event, I suspect he’s about to endorse Obama, at least that’s what I’m reading in the the press.

Bob Mann