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25
There are plenty of reviews out there – you can find pretty much anything you want to support what you thought. My thoughts are in the live-blog here and my thought about how he talked down to viewers/voters/adults and spoke as if he were speaking to first-graders is echoed in many places.
Here are four for you to check out:
The New York Times‘ David Brooks (hattip Blogger Interrupted):
10:29 EST (Nate): If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, that’s because he is. They might be the next people to actually vote for Republicans again.
I don’t know who Kenneth the Page is other than what Andrew Sullivan includes here but I see what people are talking about:
Stylistically, he got better as he went along but there was, alas, a slightly high-school debate team feel to the beginning. And there was a patronizing feel to it as well – as if he were talking to kindergartners – that made Obama’s adult approach so much more striking. And I’m not sure that the best example for private enterprise is responding to a natural calamity that even Ron Paul believes is a responsibility for the federal government. And really: does a Republican seriously want to bring up Katrina?
Winners and losers, according to the Washington Post.
One more, just one more – from The Moderate Voice editor-in-chief, Joe Gandelman:
Can Democrats, Republicans and independents put aside political biases and just bluntly say it after they’ve taken their hands away from their eyes?
Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s speech in replying to President Barack Obama’s speech to Congres wasn’t “da bomb” but “a bomb.”
To paraphrase the late Jackie Gleason, his response made the atomic bomb look like a firecracker.
His entire post is worth reading.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:37 pm February 25th, 2009 in Barack Obama, Bobby Jindal, conservatives, Government, Whitehouse09
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I started to feel sorry for the guy almost immediately….but then I quickly came to my senses and realized how pitiful a condition the GOP is actually in….to have placed a not-ready-for-prime-time guy like Jindal in such a position.
My goodness. The Republicans are disintegrating in real-time.
About time.
I also like the Sham Wow! comparisons. I did actually think he was going to say at one point “For only 3 easy payments of $19.95 we can rebuild the Republican Party…Act now!”