Update 7-23: Looks like Novak was snookered. Jindal says no, he won't be McCain's vice president.
Update: Robert Novak, who apparently broke this news, says McCain might be playing him. Could McCain make his vice presidential announcement this week? He said he was going to announce something remotely exciting while Obama was away. If I were him, I'd announce something exciting as soon as possible. I hope he chooses anyone but Rudy and Mitt. Bobby Jindal is probably a good choice.
CNN: Adding fuel to speculation is a planned Wednesday meeting between McCain and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Some analysts say the Arizona senator is seriously considering the 37-year-old Republican for his running mate.
News of the meeting, first reported by the Washington Post, comes amid reports that the McCain campaign was considering naming the vice presidential candidate this week in an effort to steal the media spotlight from Sen. Barack Obama's trip overseas.
Bobby Jindal tidbits: 2. Born born Piyush Jindal in Baton Rouge in 1971, he gave himself the nickname Bobby—after the youngest son on The Brady Bunch—when he was 4.
3. Raised a Hindu, Jindal converted to Catholicism as a teenager. As a young convert, he wrote of the emotional and intellectual struggles of his spiritual journey in several articles that were published in the New Oxford Review, a Catholic magazine.
I wonder if he'll get ripped by the republican extremists for his "funny" name and being a former Hindu.
Rush and Newt like him. Interesting.
