Comparing Bobby Jindal And Harold Ford
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 7:45 amJeff Feck sees similarity in Bobby Jindal’s widely panned response to Presidnt Obama’s address to Congress and Harold Ford, Jr.’s speech to the 2000 Democratic National Convention:
We forget it now, but Ford went into his 2000 keynote with the same kind of buzz that Barack Obama had in 2004. He was being touted as the future of the Democratic Party, a likely candidate for the presidency in 2008 or 2012 or so. He was only 30 at the time, but he’d been in the House for two terms already. Add to it the fact that he was African-American, and you had a potential future superstar.
But like most things the Democrats touched in 2000, Ford’s speech did not turn to gold, but rather a sort of silverish aluminum. It was a decent speech, but not transcendent, and certainly not equal to the hype it had received in the days leading up to the event. Ford’s aura was dented severely; by 2006, he was running for — and losing — the Tennessee Senate seat vacated by Bill Frist. Today, he’s mostly known among Democrats for being a Joe Lieberman type — reflexively anti-Democratic, and far too solicitous of Republicans. The idea of a President Harold Ford is ludicrous now — a sharp slide that began in the summer of 2000.
Jindal Agrees His Primetime National Speech Was Not So Fine
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 5:12 pmVia the Times-Picayune:
“I’m not nearly as good a speaker as the president,” Jindal said among several self-deprecating remarks during the press conference today in the state Capitol. “I’m not alone in this opinion.”
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I Don’t Appreciate Your Ruse, Sir
Posted on July 22, 2008 at 6:50 amSharon Cobb is not buying that John McCain will be choosing his runningmate this week. Her reasoning is simple:
To wit, yesterday afternoon, someone high up in the McCain campaign leaked to Robert Novak that McCain would make his choice for VEEP known this week.
Will that happen? No.
The ONLY reason to do it this week is to take the focus off of Obama’s foreign affairs victories, because McCain thought that was Obama’s weakest issue.
That said, there is no advantage other than the above, and that’s not enough.
McCain has the advantage going into the Veepstakes, because his convention is a week after Obama’s, and McCain will have the advantage of knowing who the Democratic VEEP is, therefore knowing whether to put a woman on the ticket instead of Romney.
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