Bobby Jindal, rising star of the GOP crashes and burns

[BirminghamExaminer]

Watching Bobby Jindal deliver the GOP's response to President Barack Obama's speech before the joint sessions of Congress two nights ago was at times painful and I admit that just three minutes into the speech I felt sorry for him. But then I remembered that he decided to turn down 1% of the Stimulus money offered to his state to help the suffering out of work residents of Louisiana.

Governor Jindal's speech was a disaster.

First there was his style to contend with. 3 minutes into his 'speech', I fully expected Jindal to come out with a story about how the Indians brought corn to the pilgrims and they all enjoyed a big happy Thanksgiving feast, just like the kind of stories I heard in the 2nd grade in 1966.

Jindal's tone was patronizing and he seemed to waver between delivering a Thanksgiving story to second graders and explaining that no one should trust bureaucrats like himself in government.

Please see rest of my article here. Any comments would be appreciated as always.

[izquierdista]

1. Don't trust bureaucrats like Jindal

Check.

Now if we can get everyone else to vote for candidates who actually WANT the government to work, that's the clincher.

[zipplewrath]

2. Okay, since you asked

This is the weakest part in my opinion, and hits my pet peeves:

First there was his style to contend with. 3 minutes into his 'speech', I fully expected Jindal to come out with a story about how the Indians brought corn to the pilgrims and they all enjoyed a big happy Thanksgiving feast, just like the kind of stories I heard in the 2nd grade in 1966.

Jindal's tone was patronizing and he seemed to waver between delivering a Thanksgiving story to second graders and explaining that no one should trust bureaucrats like himself in government.

Watching Jindal speak after hearing the dynamic and historic speech the President gave just minutes before was a little bit like watching an eighth grader give a speech to his class after forgetting to bring his notes. Jindal had a hard act to follow and I think that had his speech included something worth listening to, people would have been more forgiving.

The lack of substance in Governor Jindal's speech had even conservative Republican pundits shaking their heads in bewilderment and groaning in disappointment. It was a disaster by almost all accounts.

When criticizing something, be specific, don't immediately jump to metaphors and similes. What specific examples from his speech can you give that brought you to this conclusion (i.e the "indians and corn" analogy)? What parts of the speech are examples of his "tone" that wavered between your two concepts. Finally, if it was a disaster "by all accounts", it should be an easy exercise to NAME some specific "conservative Republican pundits".

See, the thing is that it is easy for me to understand you because I agree with you. However, if I did not I'd be wondering what you were talking about. Even more so, if I didn't listen to his, or Obama's speech, I might not understand at all. I do understand that you are space limited, so to some degree you are unable to make long quotes or other extensive references. But in this day and age, I can often find transcripts, or get to other pundits writing, if you'll just give the most basic of references. Merely starting a sentence with "when he spoke of volcano research, he sounded like...." will do. Truth is, if you reread your article, removing the part I quoted, I think it still stands on its own, and in a more solid fashion in my mind.

[BirminghamExaminer]

4. Thanks for the comments. Duly noted.

[Demeter]

3. Jindal's Speech a Great Success...for Democrats!

[rdmtimp]

5. In baseball terms....

Obama hit a tape-measure grand slam.

Jindal took a called third strike.

[DRoseDARs]

6. Jindal did his impression of Ike Broflovski's impression of David Caruso's career...

Yelled "It's my turn!" then jumped head first from the mothership.

(For those that don't get it, it's a South Park reference from the very first episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartman_Gets_an_Anal_Probe
and referenced on Caruso's Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Caruso#1990s