I was just reading a Politico article about the Chris Mathews "faux pas" last night. For those that don't know it, just before the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address last night, someone from the MSNBC news crew was overheard saying, "Oh god". Since Keith Olberman was on the panel everyone assumed that it was him. However, it was later revealed that it was in fact Obama's lap dog, Chris Matthews.
Now I don't care really what Matthews or Olberman say. Both of them have been salivating ever since Obama gave his speech at the 2004 Democrat National Convention. Any day now I expect one of them to collapse in rapture over their president.
What made me angry was the responses by the commentators on the Politico article. Most could not get ablove childish remarks about Jindal's personal appearance. They claimed that he was trying to ape the appearance of president by having the walk-out of the Louisiana govenor's mansion. They also made remarks about how thin and stiff he was.
Now let us not forget that Obama was doing the same thing before after the election, but before he was actually sworn into office. Remember the "Office of the President-elect" shield that he would have on his podium when he made a speech? There is no such thing as the "Office of President-elect" but the Dems are all government educated so you can't really expect much. And even before the election he and his handlers were doing everything they could with their marketing skills to make the neophyte politician look presidential. We even had the famous redesign of the presidential seal that was leaked from the campaign.
And Obama is thin and stiff, despsite what Entertainment Tonight and the other admirers tell ad nauseam. But I have gone out of my way since I started this blog to not make personal attacks (i.e. attacks on the personal appearance) on the Democrats. Now I make no bones about the fact that they are misguided and in many cases they have no common sense. But to make fun of someone because of their appearance is just juvenile. And it's the kind of thing that they used to argue against Republican candidates when they would say things like, "Americans are tired of personal attacks".
We Conservatives know that it will be a long four years. But we should do what the Dems keep saying that they are going to do. We should stand above personal attacks, and attack them on their policies. After all, there's plenty to attack.
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To be honest, this didn't originate with the folks on the left. Conservatives down here in Louisiana have been saying this about Jindal from the first time he ran for Governor.
I thought that Jindal was a smarter candidate than almost all of the others, even in his first race. However, he was unpopular with conservatives here. For one thing, he was a person of color and that alone disqualified him in the eyes of a lot of Louisianians. He also had a tendency to come across as very rude. Down here, people tend to distrust fast-talking politicians. Even our political debates tend to look more like after-dinner conversations with everyone referring to their opponents as if they are all the best of friends.
Jindal's body language is really off-putting to a lot of people, not just those on "the left". I can see how he's worked on it but he still has a long way to go if he wants to effectively get his message across to his audiences. Personally, I think he's been a pretty good governor but I don't think he's going to be re-elected because he's become very unpopular here at home.
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