He had a 90% sympathetic audience:

He channeled Forrest Gump, Bush 43, and some generic kid's book voice.

Michael Moore meets Dr. Seuss meets John McCain's puppet string pullers?

Sarah Pahlin for prez?

I was just thinking the same thing.

His cadence and voice are way off. It is painful to watch and listen.

Xen, the speech critics are obviously culturally biased.

If he had even ONCE said YEE HAW!, he would have gained 3% of the electorate. But since HE DIDN'T, surely the red neck crowd FELL ASLEEP dreaming of Sarah Palin with a shotgun in a bikini?

(Message edited by porker on February 24, 2009)

Looks like I posted this earlier in the wrong thread, so here it goes again:

Great line from Nate Silver on the www.fivethirtyeight.com live blog of the Obama and Jindal speeches:

"If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room full of fourth graders, that's because he is. They might be the next people to actually vote for Republicans again."

It was really, really, strange to listen to him tonight.

I watched him briefly on "Meet The Press" on Sunday. He was responding to turning down Federal money that would require Louisiana to rewrite their unemployment laws and how it would end up costing the state money in the long run. He didn't speak like he spoke tonight and seemed informed, educated, and well spoken.

I don't know what the hell his handlers said to him before the speech tonight, but his first impression to millions of Americans tonight could not have been good.

This one is good for laughs:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/bobby-jindal-or-kenneth-f_n_169693.html

I half expected to hear dueling banjos in the background soundtrack. SNL will be a good one this weekend.

Democrats win the spokesmodel competition hands down.

Then again the Republicans win the bathing suit and flute-playing competitions.

As noted on www.fivethirtyeight.com:

While some of the projects in the [stimulus] bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes ... $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.

-- Bobby Jindal (from his "Republican Response" to Obama's speech)

Before the cataclysmic eruption, roughly one million people lived in the region around Mount Pinatubo, including about 30,000 American military personnel and their dependents at the two largest U.S. military bases in the Philippines--Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Station. The slopes of the volcano and the adjacent hills and valleys were home to thousands of villagers. Despite the great number of people at risk, there were few casualties in the June 15 eruption. This was the result of intensive monitoring of Mount Pinatubo by scientists with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) and the USGS.

The first recognized signs that Pinatubo was reawakening after a 500-year slumber were a series of small steam-blast explosions in early April 1991. Scientists from PHIVOLCS immediately began on-site monitoring and soon declared a 6-mile-radius danger zone around the volcano. They were joined in a few weeks by USGS scientists from the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, a cooperative effort with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

[...]

The USGS and PHIVOLCS estimate that their forecasts saved at least 5,000 lives and perhaps as many as 20,000. The people living in the lowlands around Mount Pinatubo were alerted to the impending eruption by the forecasts, and many fled to towns at safer distances from the volcano or took shelter in buildings with strong roofs. Additionally, more than 18,000 American servicemen and their dependents were evacuated from Clark Air Base prior to the June 15 eruption. In the eruption, thousands of weaker roofs, including some on Clark, collapsed under the weight of ash made wet by heavy rains, yet only about 250 lowland residents were killed. Of the 20,000 indigenous Aeta highlanders who lived on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo, all but about 120 were safely evacuated before the eruption completely devastated their villages.

In addition to the many lives saved, property worth hundreds of millions of dollars was protected from damage or destruction in the eruption. When aircraft and other equipment at the U.S. bases were flown to safe areas or covered, losses of at least $200 to 275 million were averted. Philippine and other commercial airlines prevented at least another $50 to 100 million in damage to aircraft by taking similar actions. By heeding warnings of hazardous volcanic ash clouds from Pinatubo, commercial and military pilots avoided severe damage to their aircraft and potentially saved hundreds of lives.

-- The United States Geological Survey

Volcano monitoring is perhaps a worthy cause that should be discussed and carefully considered in due time but it is patently bullish to call it is "emergency economic stimulus".

I don't know about that. Isn't virtually ANY throwing of money into the economy stimulative so long as it doesn't go directly into someone's savings? Granted some types of spending are more stimulative than others, but if there are collateral benefits, such as potentially preventing thousands of deaths and massive economic destruction, this too should be part of the equation as to how to spend the stimulus money.

In any case this is all probably beside the (original) point in that Jindal mocked the expenditure for volcano monitoring as "wasteful spending," and did not make an argument based on whether it would or would not be stimulative.

(Message edited by LAguy on February 25, 2009)

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/149677/?tag=south+park+center+for+seismic+activity

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/209736/?tag=Fight

IIRC in the election week Southpark episode didn't Randy Marsh get drunk celebrating Obama's victory and then convinced that with Obama in office he had absolute job security at his volcano monitoring job, he insulted and beat up his boss. Then he woke up the next morning hung over, pantsless, his TV was stolen and he was fired from his volcano monitoring job and he said "That son of a bitch lied to us! I knew I should have voted for McCain!"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/209736

Here is a good laugh http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2009/02/the-jack-mcbrayer-response-to-the-internet-response-to-the-republican-response-to-the-presidents-add/#more

Didn't he used to act in porn?

Now the NBC Page from 30Rock is involved - lol
He feels insulted that he is being compared to Jindal, who can blame him! SNL would do well to have him on ASAP for a sketch, it would be hilarious.

Although I agreed with the sentiment, at first I thought the title of this thread "Bye Bye Bobby Jindal" was a bit premature. Now I'm not so sure:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/jindal_admits_katrina_story_was_false.php

The republican party's base is the Joe Plumber type aside from the fabulously wealthy who realize and welcome the scam. A neanderthal mentality enjoys childlike interpretations of complex issues. It makes them feel they are getting it.

The Kenneth the Page stuff is quite funny. I also hope he is summoned to SNL this weekend to run with the ball on this...

Lancer, the best parody I have seen of this so far had the Mr. Rogers music playing in the background.

SWEEET!

Nate Silver is one of the founding fathers of www.baseballprospectus.com, one of THE top 10 websites of ALL TIME (post your top 10 lists HERE).

#1 is easily agreed upon (SORRY, JUAN!)