As Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal came into sight and approached the microphone to launch the GOP’s response to Barack Obama’s speech to congress, one could hear MSNBC’s Chris Matthews murmuring a pre-emptive annoyed “Oh God” within ear-shot of non-muted microphone. He was issuing a warning.
With many suggesting that he has become the politically correct version of 30-Rock’s ‘Kenneth the Page’, there is no doubting the fact that Jindal’s response to Obama’s speech showed an amateurish and childish edge the Democratic party were hoping for in a Sarah Palin successor. If the desired effect was a display of charisma and confidence, the achieved effect was one of condescending awkwardness.
Showing a keen sense of colloquialism and camp-fire schoolchild rhetoric, Jindal has been using the hotly debated stimulus package to further his own political career, refusing funds for his own state in the process and potentially putting thousands of jobs at risk in the process. He even tried to claim that the previous administration’s horrendous handling of Hurricane Katrina only proved that smaller government is the key to prevent such disasters being repeated – wow!
Somebody should tell this half-wit that there is a world of difference between having swagger and being a wanker.
