Jindal draws flak from GOP, Dems over speech

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC/AP

NEW YORK - Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night.

Jindal, 37, a Rhodes scholar and son of Indian immigrants, is considered a rising star in Republican ranks and a likely 2012 presidential candidate.

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His criticism of government spending for emergency economic relief has been widely panned, especially given his state's receipt of billions in federal assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And Jindal's voice and earnest, awkward delivery have drawn comparisons to Kenneth Parcell, the geeky page on the NBC comedy "30 Rock."

Indeed, a new Facebook group titled "Bobby Jindal is Kenneth the Page" had already attracted more than 1,800 members Wednesday afternoon.


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I have a friend who lives in NOLA. He says he cannot even stomach to see Jindal's face on local or national TV.

[GinaMaria]

1. Hey that's not fair!!!

I love Kenneth. He's my favorite character on 30 Rock. He's so innocent and decent. Nothing at all like Jindal.

[Doctor_J]

2. Uh-oh. Big Media is going to have to find a new winger to promote

for 2012. They're just about out of dark-skinned ones. Who will be next?

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Jindal makes Palin look like a Mensa candidate.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i actually think its the opposite. jindal is a rhodes scholar and is trying to play common

and comes of as condescending and tone deaf

which he is

[mikekohr]

11. THE PALIN EFFECT act II

A desparate party, out of touch, stridantly dogmatic and idealogical, and increasingly isolated, takes a new face, green, untested, unready and thrusts it before the American People as a new savior, a new celebrity.

Exposed, Jindahl, like Palin, imploded and burst into flames. Just like a vampire exposed to the light of day.

mike kohr

[Doctor_J]

12. Yes, but if they run a dark-skinned empty shirt and female idiot TOGETHER next time

how can we compete??? :scared:

[mikekohr]

13. You are right. We can't win.

nt

[Enthusiast]

16. Yes, the black community will desert

Obama, you know, because they will be confused, mistaking Jindal as an African American due to his skin tone. :rofl: :sarcasm:

[Enthusiast]

15. Remember Fred Thompson?

He was going to be their 'new Reagan'. Many Republicans were placing all their faith in Fred as if he were some sort of party saviour. Their message was bankrupt even then. Now, as you say, they are desperate. I think they were actually considering 'Joe the Plumber' as a future star in the party.

[mikekohr]

18. Who Dat?

[jkirch]

19. Very nicely expressed,

[LiberalFighter]

4. I wonder which person in the media is in love with the guy and wants his baby?

[Demit]

5. Jindal's charisma & Palin's intellect—the GOP's dream ticket for 2012. Yowza!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. i lloved reading this article this morning

[BlueMTexpat]

8. This is the round-up from the WaPo's Howie Kurtz.

He's generally not a fave but it's a fairly thorough tour d'horizon. It's pretty nasty and, unsurprisingly, the nastiest comments are from GOP stalwarts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/02/26/BL2009022600901_pf.html

I find it difficult to believe that someone with a Rhodes scholarship in his background would be a Republican in today's Republican party. He must have checked his brain in before his party registration and forgot to pick it up again. But for whatever it's worth, Jindal cast his lot with them and he'll have to live with the consequences.

[Doctor_J]

9. Strange...All the freepers who reviewed it BEFORE IT WAS GIVEN loved it

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Kablooie]

10. But ... but ... Rush says he's brilliant.

[No Elephants]

14. Jindal is not dumb. Read his wiki. I think he did a lousy job responding

to Obama from the Republicans' standpoint (and therefore I loved it) And he does seem tone deaf. I believe that there are all different kinds of smart and dumb, but Jinal is not intellectually challenged, at least not insofar as book larnin' is concerned.

[Enthusiast]

17. Yes, but! The wiggle in his walk

He wiggles. This is not permitted in the Republican Party! :rofl: :popcorn: