Except for the delivery being a little off in the beginning, I found no problem with Jindal’s response. A ringing affirmation of what makes America what it is is a welcome relief from al the name calling and finger pointing that passes for reasoned debate in politics. Such an optimistic approach provides the needed contrast to Obama’s recent pronouncements of gloom and doom. A foaming at the mouth frontal attack, while emotionally satisfying to true believers, would have discredited his message in the eyes of the public.
He may be right about that. They are delusional if they think Palin will be president in 2012.
It won’t happen just yet, but at some point............
There will be blood.
With each passing day I see more and more sense in supporting Keyes, and if he is an extremist, so much the better. While I think I understand the political utility of Jindal’s mildness and the lack of fire in the rest of the GOP, I am not patient. There seems to be a policy of “Give 0bama a rope and let him hang himself.” But it’s the US that will be strangled.
People focus too much on Keyes’ style. He’s blunt, he talks fast, he puts his opponent quickly on the ropes and hammers away. So rude! So unlike the silken and satanic soetoro.
But what Keyes is saying is true and right, and when the nation is in mortal peril, perhaps the time to whisper is past.
If Gov. Palin had been chosen to give the rebuttal, you can bet she would have outdrawn The One in viewers.
Of course all the republican "frogs-in-the-pot" will just shake their heads and say we need to be civilized....no need to sound any alarms....everything is just peachy.