[jennyjenny]

IMHO, he wasn't, and I wasn't “attacking” Jindal. The Jindal we saw tonight is not the same Jindal we saw this past weekend and over the course of the last several months. I like Jindal, ALOT. I follow politics as much as most people on this board. He didn't perform well tonight. Yes, “perform”. Not the end of the world. I'm not writing him off because of this bad performance, but I'm also not going to deny is was not good. It wasn't. As I said previously, it will be forgotten by this Friday, if not by noon tomorrow. The focus will be back on Obama’s failure of a leadership tonight.

[eclecticEel]

I didn’t get very much out of the speech, but then again I doubt I was the intended audience. It seems to have been written for mishy-mushy clueless moderates; were they attracted to the optimism? Maybe, I don’t know. Perhaps the whole thing was focus grouped too much; if he had said one thing a little fiery it might have been more memorable - but then what do I know?