Bone-tired and not up to much analysis of the two speeches tonight, which just concluded. But I want to open the comments for your analysis. Quick reaction, though?
Obama was masterful. There wasn't a lot of new policy there, but that wasn't what this speech was about. It was to try to restore confidence of the American people in their government's leadership. I think he did as well as anybody who is not Franklin Delano Roosevelt could have done under these circumstances. He's damn good. But I still don't trust our government to handle this crisis. I suspect, though, that many will be comforted by his speech tonight.
Bobby Jindal was a total disappointment. He was badly over-rehearsed; Matthew, my kid, watched with me and said, "He sounds totally artificial. He sounds like a televangelist." I can't improve on that description. It sounded like that to me too.
You know me, I badly want Jindal to succeed and to become the GOP's future, but compared to Obama, he was amateur hour. His speech was boilerplate, and the delivery was rushed and fakey-fake. I've seen him speak before, and he's much better than this. Unfortunately, this was his introduction to a national TV audience, and he looked and sounded like an Eagle Scout giving a speech on citizenship to the local Kiwanis.
My quick response. Yours?
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Well, that didn't display as well as it looked. Sorry about that, and also for my pre-coffee mistake of labeling that 1988. It was for 2008.
;-)
Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans is not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one to those persons who enjoyed paying less taxes (and doesn't everyone?) - a tax increase would be allowing them to expire and then adding an additional tax hike.
Allowing the tax cuts to expire. "Them" referred to the tax cuts, not to the wealthiest Americans.
This is where Bobby Jindal got his talking point from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0cpjhTRO28
This is where Bobby Jindal got his talking point from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0cpjhTRO28
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