After Jindal's less than stellar entry where he looked like gawky school boy, to the off cadence delivery of the lines, the entire speech was just a mishmash of lies and ignorance.
There is nowhere and no one who is said to have really liked the speech or the delivery, except the new RNC chairman Michael Steele. He said on Morning Joke this morning he thought it was great. He is the only one who put a positive spin on this disaster.
Here is what I found on Think Progress this morning:
Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) response to President Obama’s speech tonight received a universal thumbs down from the Fox News panelists, who are traditionally conservatives’ most gentle critics:
BRIT HUME: “The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal’s greatest oratorical moment.”
NINA EASTON: “The delivery was not exactly terrific.”
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “Jindal didn’t have a chance. He follows Obama, who in making speeches, is in a league of his own. He’s in a Reagan-esque league. … [Jindal] tried the best he could.”
JUAN WILLIAMS: “It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish.”
From talking about the failed Republican Administrations response to Katrina he used to cite failed government policies to claiming that Pres. Obama was planning to raise taxes, when he just signed the largest middle class tax cut ever, it was clear Jindal was really off base.
So, lets look at what has happened to the past responders to the President's Speech to the Joint Congress and how mostly that has not been the jumping off point, but the ending of their career in the National spotlight.
1994 – Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS) LOST '96 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, OUT OF POLITICS
1995 – Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R-NJ) BECAME EPA ADMINISTRATOR, NOW OUT OF POLITICS
1996 – Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS) OUT OF POLITICS
1997 – Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK) OUT OF POLITICS
1998 – Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) OUT OF POLITICS
1999 – Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA) and Rep. Steven Largent (R-OK) DUNN IS DECEASED; LARGENT OUT OF POLITICS
2000 – Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. William Frist (R-TN) FRIST DECIDED NOT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, OUT OF POLITICS
2001 – No response
2002 – Rep. Richard Gehphardt (D-MO) LOST BID FOR DEM NOMINATION IN '04, OUT OF POLITICS
2003 – Gov. Gary Locke (D-WA) NOMINEE FOR COMMERCE
2004 – Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) DASCHLE WAS DEFEATED IN '04, OUT OF POLITICS; PELOSI NOW HOUSE SPEAKER
2005 – Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) REID NOW SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
2006 – Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) STILL GOVERNOR, BUT ALSO DNC CHAIR
2007 – Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) Still in Senate
2008 – Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS) Governor of Kansas
3 comments:
Obama, impressive as always. Jindal, not so much. I really didn't realize he was so bad at public speaking.
As Jindal prattled on about the successes of Louisiana, the only thing missing was 2009 footage of the still-in-ruins lower 9th ward.
He talked the talk, but reality does not match his rhetoric.
Not that it's is fault personally, FEMA & bushco dropped the ball on recovering NOLA, but please, they have not even bulldozed the toxic mild ruins from the 2005 hurricane.
By now, private homeowners who abandoned properties should have been given notice to either fix the property or have it declared abandoned & cleaned up. It is a health hazard having abandoned flood ravaged homes en masse.
He did say if the GOP does not agree, they need to come up with better ideas.
I won;t hold my breath.
I got up for a few mins shortly after the Obama speech ended. By the time I got back Jindal was done and I had missed it. Was it really short or something?
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