Too late to edit but now I remember the other Palinesque moment I had watching Jindal. When he was mocking the stimulus bill and said “$140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring’…” An intentional bit of disingenuousness to the American people just to set up a lame joke. Sweet. :rolleyes:
Quote above, and, wow, what a contrast from Bush. Obama doesn’t just do a headshot face forward and read a speech. He knows it out the gate, and delivers with force and grace. What a great mind, one I’m looking forward to seeing develop and get his legs with the job. It’s been an action packed month, and my usually cynical mind has some good faith with this President.
gov. jindal’s way of delivering a speech kinda whispered… mr. rodgers. he had that singsongy read a book cadence. this could be what triggered mrs. jophiel’s sleep response.
it made me laugh as i would use the same cadence (with out the southern spin) when reading time magazine, college texts, newpapers, etc to a 2 year old. i was going with the theory of “it didn’t matter what you read to the tykelet, just do it in this singsongy way”. it worked, tyke went to sleep and i got school work done, or caught up on current events.
Why do people in the Senate Chamber constantly interrupt the President to applause when he is speaking? It is simply rude.
It’s become an exercise of political posturing. You want to show the public what policies you support.
If people see that you don’t get up and applaud money for children hospitals, then that is going to raise a few eyebrows.
On another note, the speech appears to have hit the perfect political pitch.
A CBS poll shows 80% of the public approving the President’s plan to deal with the economy. Eighty fucking percent!
Does Cubsfan have a history of Obama-bashing outside this thread? The OP read, to me, like a guy who likes the president, but is tired of his faux-epic speeches. Reminds me of— me. I love Obama to death but I was sick of hearing the guy speak about the 2nd or 3rd time I heard him. He’s not MLK.
Obama has a set policy . Every speech will refer to that. If that bores, you will have to get used to it. He can not change his policy to keep people from getting bored.
Somebody set up us the volcano!
I noticed that too. He came in anxious to get things rolling, took about 45 seconds to get people to settle down, then stepped on Pelosi’s toes for the traditional “I present to you the President of the United States.” At which point he had to do it all again. 
The applause breaks also seemed to kind of kill his rhythm. Something they’re going to have to work on.