That's my feeling as well George. Jindal might be a tremendous talent who would be a great president, but he's going to need a lot of polishing up before the public is going to get behind him in a bid for the presidency.
He was a lot better today just talking off the cuff on talk shows than he was giving the speech...sharp and quick and (to me) persuasive...go figger. Wonder why he can't just carry that persona over to the speech?
Thanks for the clarification.... I have always said that if Bush would have made his own way....made his own heartfelt decisions.....that he would have fared better. I just think he was a puppet way too often for all of the old-time, insider GOP cronies he surrounded himself with.
Dave, It is my opinion that if he received any cooperation at all from the Dems, he would have fared better. I really think the last year of his 2nd term was truly awful. I can't defend it, nor can he I believe. The oddity to me is those same people who stood against W defiantly are now ordering us all to get inline behind the big O. Anyway, That doesn't excuse the fact that the first 7 years were met with the same fire. We spent at least as much arguing against things that, in time, proved out to be bull... The Dems threw one red herring out after another and the American public ate it up.
From the day that the 2000 election ended the Dems opposed Bush, even disputing his claim to the office. We know that subsequent investigations by liberal papers came to the conclusion that "Bush probably won." If that is true then Gore and the Dems tried to steal the election. When that failed they set out on a mission to assassinate his character. They blamed him for everything from Enron to Katrina. Now that they have their own candidate in the White House they demand respect for the office and bipartisanship. I figure that they have about 6-9 more months of blaming Bush for every failure that they encounter. After that, the "center" voters are going to start holding this administration accountable for things. Right now their most important aim is to convince the people of this country that they have the plan and ability to solve our problems. So far, they are failing miserably. OH and as to his fiscal ******** about taxes ask yourself, how can he possible do what he says he's going to do but not sticking it to the middle class http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561551065378405.html
Obama's rating are in the 50s after starting out in the 80s. He's played the bulk of his cards... if we don't see some reversal of fortune the same forces thatdecided Bush's fate will turn on Obama.
I'm onto this guy's game and it is already old. He claims to be against earmarks, but then when a record earmarks are shoved into a bill, they redefine what earmarks is. He claims to be against the Fairness Doctrine, but here we are less than a month after he is in office and guess what is being debated on the floor.. They just aren't calling it the Fairness Doctrine. Can we just call this recession the new economic boom and declare him winner? blah.
I watched a 60 Minutes piece on Jindall tonight. He truly is a cool guy.....nothing like the impression he left last Monday night. According to Morley Safer, the general reaction to his speech was the same as mine, but in this piece he definitely came across as a person to watch over time for potential as a player on the national scene. Interesting.
I watched as well Sid and he did come off much better than he did in his speech last week. Never the less if he want's to be President some day he'll need to polish up things. I wonder how well he does in a debate setting, in that setting Obama didn't do quite as well as he did when he was speaking at a campaign rally. Hillary was much more confident and direct in the debates.
Excellent points, Terry. I did not realize he is only in his mid 30s. That's my son's age! And the Repubs think he's presidential material?? Looks like both he and the Repubs have a long way to go. The one thing the 60 Minutes piece did for me was to show that he is a smart, capable leader and not the dufus he appeared to be in the response to Obama's speech.