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The Obama-Jindal Contrast: Eloquence vs. Competence

June 17, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

Over at the Washington Examiner, Chris Stirewalt remembers when everyone celebrated Obama’s first speech as president while chiding Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal for his response:

It was just that long ago that President Obama gave his first address to a joint session of Congress to thunderous, often bipartisan, cheers. . . .

Jindal [by contrast] bombed. Democrats cackled.

Jindal’s hollow sounding delivery in the darkened main hall of his official residence made him seem like an Audio-Animatronic character on Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride. . . .

And now, the president finds himself the captive of a so-far unstoppable oil spill that reinforces Democratic fears that Obama was all talk and gives everyone else reason to doubt his competence.

Seems the contrast between Obama and Jindal helps define the real nature of the president’s appeal and his real failure as an executive.  He can talk a good talk, but just can’t walk the walk.  The Democrat may be a master of scripted eloquence, but executive competence eludes him.

Meanwhile, Jindal has distinguished himself by the aggressive manner in which he responded to the oil spill, his ability to get things done hampered by the slow response from the White House.

Filed Under: Obama Arrogance, Obama Hopenchange, Obama Incompetence

Comments

  1. V the K says

    June 17, 2010 at 9:53 am - June 17, 2010

    Christie-Jindal 2016, if there’s any America left by then.

  2. The_Livewire says

    June 17, 2010 at 12:05 pm - June 17, 2010

    Now we know why the libs swoon at the President’s speaches. He talks down to their level.

  3. Ted B. says

    June 17, 2010 at 1:32 pm - June 17, 2010

    If Christie’s the standard bearer in 2016, better to leave Jindal in Louisiana where he can do some real good down there.

    And for that matter don’t steal Christie from us so fast here in NJ…we’ll still need him after 2013 for his second-term. Altho’ I suspect if Christie’s effective and successful here in NJ, he’ll not be re-electable on 2013….New Jersey politics is like that. Do a good job your first term…and like Churchill in 1945 you’ll get the “Order of the Boot” the next election.

  4. Juju says

    June 17, 2010 at 5:00 pm - June 17, 2010

    My New Orleans friend reports that everyone is highly satisfied with Jindal’s leadership during this crisis. He is effective and tireless.

  5. heliotrope says

    June 17, 2010 at 5:32 pm - June 17, 2010

    Jindal and Christie remind me of wartime generals who understand the scope of the problem and take it on one battle at a time.

    Shakespeare spoke of the Obama soul in The Merchant of Venice:

    The man that hath no music in himself,
    Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
    Is fit for treasons, stategems, and spoils.
    The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
    And his affections dark as Erebus.

  6. straightAussie says

    June 18, 2010 at 7:05 am - June 18, 2010

    Even though there is much to admire about Jindal’s handling of this oil crisis… and he really is proving his worth… Jindal is not an NBC. I do know that he was born in the USA but that does not make him an NBC because his parents were not USA citizens at the time.

    The criteria for POTUS is that the person can only be eligible if he was born to citizen parents. (this of course means that everyone ignored the fact that Obumbles was not NBC because his father is a Kenyan and British citizen – forget the other birther issues in my view. that should have been enough to state that he was not eligible.)

    Jindal is doing a good job in LA. He is needed there.

    Christie is only partly into his first year as Governor. I do not know anything about his aspirations. What I do know is that he would be a good POTUS especially if he was a reforming POTUS. The year 2012 is way too early for him… but you cannot have another term with Obumbles because the USA would be completely and utterly destroyed if he is not ousted… the sooner the better in my view…. considering the manner in which the oil spill is being handled, he should be impeached as an enemy of the USA!!

  7. Ted B. says

    June 18, 2010 at 10:56 am - June 18, 2010

    The US Constitution only requires the candidate to be native-born…the status of his parents is not-mentioned.

    No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

  8. Burke says

    June 19, 2010 at 11:17 am - June 19, 2010

    Ted B.–“Natural born citizen” and “native born citizen” are not the same thing.
    Jindal is unquestionably a “native born” citizen, but that doesn’t meet the requirements
    of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has always held that a “natural born citizen”
    must be the child of two American citizens. Whether Jindal would qualify is really a question that has to be decided by the courts. Both Pres. Chester Alan Arthur and Charles Evans Hughes (lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916) faced citizenship questions because in each case , their mothers were native born citizens, and their fathers were Brits who became American citizens after their birth. In each case, it was agreed that they met the Constitutional requirements.

    Jindal’s case is different because both of his parents weren’t naturalized till after he was born. And by this standard, Obama clearly doesn’t qualify, because his Kenyan
    father was NEVER naturalized.
    The

  9. buckeyenutlover says

    June 20, 2010 at 9:51 am - June 20, 2010

    LOL. Wasn’t Jindal pleading for federal help? Just another hypocritical conservative that talks about less federal gov’t, until the shit hits the fan. He has absolutely no future due to his incompetency and hypocrisy.

    Oh, ad the LA state senate is going to turn to prayer to stop the spill. What a joke the GOP is.

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/20/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1

  10. North Dallas Thirty says

    June 20, 2010 at 3:54 pm - June 20, 2010

    LOL. Wasn’t Jindal pleading for federal help?

    Yes, because, as state governor, his authority doesn’t extend to federal waterways, so he needed the Federal government’s authorization to act on their own property to prevent his from being damaged.

    They failed. Turns out the Obama Party members like you were too busy looking at online porn on taxpayer time to do your jobs. So Jindal has actually been proactive, demanding the building of barrier islands, deploying boom, and using his own state’s resources to make up for where the Obama Porn Party failed.

    The Gulf spill has proved how lazy, perverse, and dysfunctional the Federal government is, and everything that has gone wrong is Barack Obama’s fault. Your Barack Obama is a failure, buckeyenutlover.

    Meanwhile, perhaps you missed this from your article:

    “Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” state Sen. Robert Adley said in a statement released after last week’s unanimous vote for the day of prayer. “It is clearly time for a miracle for us.”

    Which means every single Obama Party member in the Louisiana Senate voted for it.

    Guess it just shows what hypocrites, liars, and antireligious bigots those Obama Party members are — or, more precisely, what a hypocrite, liar, and antireligious bigot you are.

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