Posted on 02/24/2009 9:05:11 PM PST by AndrewWalden
Jindal:
As I grew up, my mom and dad taught me the values that attracted them to this country -- and they instilled in me an immigrant's wonder at the greatness of America. As a child, I remember going to the grocery store with my dad. Growing up in India, he had seen extreme poverty. And as we walked through the aisles, looking at the endless variety on the shelves, he would tell me: 'Bobby, Americans can do anything.'
Obama:
...Dillon, South Carolina - a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom. She has been told that her school is hopeless, but the other day after class she went to the public library and typed up a letter to the people sitting in this room. She even asked her principal for the money to buy a stamp. The letter asks us for help...
(Excerpt) Read more at hawaiifreepress.com ...
Barack Obama is pushing an irresponsible, poorly considered and dangerous agenda upon America. For the sake of the republic, he must be defeated.
We don't necessarily need a Barack Obama type of speaker to defeat Barack Obama.
I love my country, but democracies deserve to fail when the citizens persistently abandon their responsibility to make sound, informed decisions. The election of Barack Obama to the presidency was one such decision. Electing a second demagogue to replace him, even a Republican or Independent one, would be another such mistake.
In his speech last night, Governor Jindal was straightforward, and I loved that. Yes his speech may have lacked the pointless rhetorical flourishes of an Obama filibuster, Obama’s mind-numbing historical inaccuracies, the contradiction, deception and general cluelessness emphatically and confidently delivered, that form the backbone of an Obama sermon. In short, Governor Jindal is not an arrogant demagogue. Good for him, and good for us.
Bobby Jindal is on the short list of contenders who could challenge the current corrupt political regime. I would love to see him run an honest and hard hitting campaign if and when the time comes for him to run for President. This is only the second time I have seen Governor Jindal speak, and I was impressed. I'm looking forward to learning more about Bobby Jindal, but at this point, he looks much sharper and dramatically more competent than our current president. From what I have seen, Bobby Jindal is someone with the intellectual capabilities to go toe to toe with Barack Obama in a debate and not let him get away with blatant self-contradiction and deception. Senator McCain proved unequal to that task in the limited debate format of the last election cycle.
It is my hope that the American people are still capable of choosing a political representative based upon more than fund-raising and meaningless showmanship akills, e.g. Barack Obama.
You hit the nail on the head, JenB987. Gov. Jindal struck a cool balance between criticism of blatant irresponsibility on the part of the current administration, and optimism for the future of our country. Despite his serious concerns, he was calm and reassuring in a way that the current president has not been.
Oh, Meant to reply to Post #1, sorry—for some reason it went to 3. It was meant as a general comment to everyone ripping on Jindal. (I am not a supporter or detractor of Jindal—know little about him).
In response to your other comments; it was my observation that people all over FR were chewing up and spitting out Jindal in last nite’s posts ( they are doing same to Palin, Romney, etc other days. I thot some of posts on the thread were unecessarily nasty—sorry but in my opinion they were & to me, it is way to early to be sniping our frontrunners unless they want McCain again (and yes, I have seen threads yesterday saying McCain in 2012. Press will be doing plenty of that sniping soon enough.
So what if Jindal was not that eloquent?! Markets are not falling for the teleprompter reading skills of the kenyan that is our POTUS. DOW futures down, DOW down since election.
Hope that clarifies.
My husband and I burst out loud laughing, and we giggled through the rest of Bobby’s speech at this very part:
“In my home state, there used to be saying: At any given time, half of Louisiana is under water — and the other half is under indictment.”
And he didn't even have time to look up what 'volcano monitoring' means...
Yep, you’re right. He seems like a great guy and has good things to say, but his delivery was lacking. I have seen him in interviews, and he does really well, but speech giving is not his strong point. I wonder if that’s something he can get some training on or if it’s just something you have or you don’t. I personally care more about what a person believes than how well they speak, but unfortunately this election proves most people go for the good speaker.
I suppose it’s possible people will be so tired of the slick, no substance, dishonest, great teleprompter reader we have now, and go for someone who has great ideas. Jindal did come across as honest and optimistic, just not a good speech giver. Maybe some practice and training can correct this. While Palin is my favorite, we can use all the great conservative up and comers we can get right now.
As bad as people think Jindal’s speech was it’s all the Leftie blogs can talk about today. They’re consumed with it. POs speech isn’t getting a quarter of the coverage. Anything that gets ants in their pants like this makes me smile.
I’ve been reading some of the comments on Jindal’s speech this morning and started wondering if I listened to a different one than other people.
Jindall’s delivery at first was messed up because of the audio. His voice may be a little weak, but his message was very inspirational. I was impressed with his message.
Compared to Obama’s rhetoric of crisis, disaster, etc, here was a politician who appealed to all that is positive and hopeful in America. He appealed to the great American spirit.
We need more of Jindal’s type of speeches and less of Obama’s.
Jindal was like listening to MR. Freaking Rogers! He did nothing to help the conservative cause.
TRANSLATION:
"We will destroy Capitalism, we will distribute the wealth, and the United States of America will emerge as the United Socialist State of America."
TRANSLATION:
"Only by forcing me to show my credentials will you be able to lift yourselves out of this predicament I put you in."
It’s a shame that so many are bashing Jindahl’s delivery. The content is so much more important.
Amen to that! I don’t get what was so awful besides the sound being goofed up. I thought it was a great message and very uplifting as opposed to Zero’s negativity about America. It made me sick to hear Charles Krauthammer refer to Obama as “reagenesque”. I turned off those blowhards on Fox.
WE need leadership. Leadership at this time and place from the right DOES not, nor cannot come from elected officials. By nature and practice, pols are scared little people running around trying to get re-elected as soon as they are elected.
Pols need a voice not their own so that they can accomplish CYA if the need be.
Jindal while I am sure is a nice guy, is not that voice.
True conservative leadership will come only if someone rises up who is NOT an elected Republican.
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Jindal came across as Mr. Rogers. We don’t need Mr. Rogers, we need PATTON
I wish we had a few hundred more like Bobby on our side in congress and governors.
If only he had even one...
Principles are a difficult thing to have.
I admit I envy the other side at times as they can parrot the most ludicrous statements and ideas and still receive fawning praise.
Except for some specific examples how is Jindal’s response all that different from the one JC Watts gave following a Clinton address? I suppose the answer is ‘not very different’ but hopefully that is a sign that good ideas are good ideas regardless of the year or the party/individual in power.
I remain convinced that anti-Bush sentiment was by far the driving force in the last election - the Dems slapped a happy face sticker on it and called it Change. GWB is back in Texas and somewhat inevitably the anti-Bush momentum has faded leaving Obama and his cadre of thin-skinned martinets alone in the spotlight.
I don’t like the Dems’ tactic of invasive documentary-style video vignettes showing how bad this or that family has got it but perhaps it’s time for the GOP to follow suit and produce videos of the lives of small business owners who may or may not be struggling. Put a clock and/or a counter on all the time, money and effort spent on silly paperwork demanded by local/state/federal bureaucrats. Splash a graphic up detailing the myriad taxes and fees paid for the ‘privilege’ of providing gainful employment to others.
The Dems have a huge built-in advantage in basic psychology because so many people define ‘rich’ as the guy with an extra $5 bill in his pocket. It’s up to the GOP to challenge and destroy (if possible) this myth and this perception.
He HAD to know how important this was, and his delivery failed.
We want a candidate that reminds us of Ronald Reagan, not Slum Dog Millionaire.
Flame away...I'm being honest.
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