It was supposed to be his big moment.....
Like most of America, I turned off long before Bobby Jindal.
(From early reaction, it sounds like that was to Jindal's benefit.)
Meanwhile, the snap polling once again strongly favors Obama.
Later Still: Here's a two part Youtube of Jindal's response. It is pretty awful. It reminds me of Gov weird eyebrows (Tim Kaine's) SoTU response a couple years ago.
(From early reaction, it sounds like that was to Jindal's benefit.)
Meanwhile, the snap polling once again strongly favors Obama.
Later Still: Here's a two part Youtube of Jindal's response. It is pretty awful. It reminds me of Gov weird eyebrows (Tim Kaine's) SoTU response a couple years ago.
posted by mikevotes at
10:02 PM
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David Brooks was sputtering with disbelief at the train wreck that was Jindal's response. Not just the tone deafness of the content, but the delivery as well.
No offense, but I've had enough of syrupy-drawled southern Republicans. Not only did I find his ideas kind of insulting at times, but I felt his delivery was a bit patronizing.
He reminded me of the Kenneth Parcell character from 30 Rock. It's only funny if you know the show.
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-epm, at 7:30 AM
I heard about Brooks.
Frankly, it reminded me of governor weird eyebrows' (Tim Kaine's) response to a Bush SoTU. He was so touted and the delivery was way too simplistic with awful delivery.
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mikevotes, at 7:34 AM
My thoughts exactly. I remember the hyped anticipation for the Kaine response as you were posting about the same thing regarding Jindal (next big thing).... "Where's Tim now?" I was thinking. Certainly not a mover and shaker in national Dem politics.
Not to pick on the guy... I'm just sayin' is all.
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-epm, at 7:45 AM
Not trying to be snarky, but, Tim Kaine "landed" as the current chairman of the Democratic party.
Admittedly, that had a ton to do with his relationship and early support for Obama.
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mikevotes, at 7:49 AM
Ok. I'm an idiot... LOL
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-epm, at 8:33 AM
I watched most of Jindal's response, and I was not impressed.
He threw out two examples of horribly wasteful spending: high-speed rail and volcano monitoring. Neither of these seem "wasteful" to me.
He trotted out the Republican line on health insurance: require people to have it - problem solved. It reminded me of Reagan's contention that homeless people are "homeless by choice"; people just trying to get away with not paying rent like decent folks.
Despite Obama's assurances that the nation would get through this, and numerous optimistic remarks in the address, Jindal attacked Obama as a pessimist who didn't believe in America, who thought "America's best days are over". He seemed to think he was making a relevant point.
The entire response struck me as something one would hear six months ago from the McCain campaign.
Later on CBS, some stooge summed up the two speeches in nearly these words:
"Obama came out and proposed we spend and spend. Jindal made a case that government should get out of the way and cut taxes". Nobody touched Obama's remarks about how we got this huge deficit or how the real figures were concealed by bogus accounting practises.
Then they showed snap polling that essentially proved that the stooge's analysis wasn't supported by public opinion.
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Todd Dugdale , at 8:47 AM
Todd, yeah, volcano monitoring does seem pretty damn important and a pretty bad example. Especially coming from a NO politician.
As I said somewhere in the comments above or in another post, I think Jindal's biggest mistake is that his comments were out of tone for the night.
He started with that very awkward nod to the first black SoTU, and I guess that was supposed to take the energy out and change tone, but it felt very, very, weird and offered an awkward start.
And Obama always does great in those snap polls. Something in his presentation really does reach across his approval numbers. I can't tell you what it is, but he always snap polls higher than his ratings.
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mikevotes, at 10:39 AM
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