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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (7622)	2/25/2009 2:09:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "Yes, even the Fox "all-stars" were very disappointed in Jindal. He looked bad, sounded bad and made a very poor impression." I agree... (& so do many Republican leaders - see the article I attach below....) He sounded like he was trying to dumb his remarks down to a level sufficient to give a talk to an elementary school class... and not a very bright one at that. :-) Re: "They should have let Palin or Pawlenty do the response. They would have been much better. Even Sanford." Well... suppose somebody had to be given the shot. (But I agree that all three you mention would have been much better.) I also think --- based on some recent observations --- that: 1) Pawlenty, 2) Huckabee, 3) Palin, 4) Romney May be the new order for the starting lineup of the 2012 GOP field. -------------------------------------------------------- Jindal’s Response to Obama Address Panned by Fellow Republicans By Heidi Przybyla bloomberg.com Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has been among the Republican Party’s brightest stars in a party searching for a strong competitor to Barack Obama in 2012. He may be shining a little less brightly today. Jindal is catching criticism from fellow Republicans for his performance delivering the party’s response to Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress. “A lot of Republicans I am speaking with were expecting this would be like Obama’s moment in 2004” when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention and gained immediate national fame, said David Johnson, a Republican strategist who advised Bob Dole in 1988. “He bombed out.” Democrat or Republican, any public official competing with the pomp and theater of the president’s address to a joint session of Congress is at a disadvantage. Still, some analysts and bloggers cited a flat delivery. Jindal “seemed more like a high school student giving a valedictory speech than a potential future leader of the party,” wrote Philip Klein of the “American Spectator.” Said Brit Hume of Fox News: “The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal’s greatest oratorical moment.” Some Republicans were less critical. Carl Forti, a former communications director at the National Republican Campaign Committee, said one speech will not ruin Jindal’s presidential chances. “People are watching him right after they watched Obama, and Obama may be better than Reagan,” said Forti. “I’m sure that affected people’s opinion.” ‘Difficult Position’ Terry Holt, a Republican strategist who served as President George W. Bush’s spokesman in 2004, said, “I am very cautious to take away too much from a single performance. My sense is it’s a difficult position to be in” following Obama....