Last night Barrack Obama gave a stirring and passionate speech in front of Congress, if you missed it then you should really seek it out. Whether or not Obama can achieve all that he laid out in this speech may be debatable but the man's ability to inspire is undeniable.
The standard procedure for big deal addresses like this is that the minority party arranges to have a counter-point statement read by someone following the President's address. Last night the Republican Party decided to continue their painful American Idol style competition to find the next great hope for their party. Last night's contestant was Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a man that does have a very American past but apparently can't say the word "President" properly. Instead it sounds like he's saying "Prezzdent" with a very pronounced lack of pronunciation. Even if the content of the speech had been compelling (it wasn't) Jindal's delivery was abyssmal. Couple that with the fact that you had just seen 50 minutes of near flawless oratory from a man that was born to speak and you get an unmitigated disaster.
Even right leaning pundits have been highly critical of Jindal's speech going so far as to say that Sarah Palin could have done a better job.....ouch.
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