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Editors review the week: The Speech, Eco-ideas, & Ziegler

Friday, February 27th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments

Each Friday Real Pundits editors Paul Owen, Arnold Vis and Daniel Washburn discuss the political news of the week.

This week they talk about Barack Obama’s speech to Congress, his plans for the environment and the new documentary by John Ziegler called Media Malpractice.
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Rush Limbaugh: I STILL want Obama to fail

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Obama and the Dems | 1 Comment

And he doesn’t like Mark Sanford implying he’s an idiot either.
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Leave Bobby Jindal Alone!

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Republicans | 1 Comment

The harsh reviews of Bobby Jindal’s speech have clearly gotten to this blogger.
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Top 5 Republican presidential contenders in 2012

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | TV and text | 1 Comment

The second instalment of our monthly look at GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination.
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By ARNOLD VIS

For the moment we think South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has the best shot of winning the GOP’s nomination in 2012. Full list inside.
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Bobby Jindal is not the answer to GOP’s problems

Thursday, February 26th, 2009 | Republicans | 2 Comments

BY PAUL OWEN

“Americans can do anything” is the core of Bobby Jindal’s message to the country – and the Republican party he evidently wants to embrace him as presidential candidate in 2012.

On the strength of this speech, Jindal - the governor of Louisiana - has a lot of work to do. His delivery is not great. He has a jumpy, nervy way of speaking. His stories don’t flow naturally as if he is telling them for the first time. He punctuates them with little fake laughs.

Like it or not, Obama’s delivery is a very important part of his appeal, and whoever stands against him will have to compete on that level too. (In her own, different, way, Sarah Palin could do this. Both cut through the usual cliches of political speech to communicate directly with the voters.)

Jindal runs through his life story; he is the son of Indian immigrants. But the idea that, on arrival in America, Jindal’s dad almost couldn’t afford to pay for his delivery comes across to me not as a hymn to the values of hard work, but as a national disgrace that makes me think someone should introduce a universal health care system.

In addition, his distinction between “the people” and “the government” seems outdated and irrelevant; it suggests he is clinging to an old ideology without examining whether it is appropriate today. Does anyone really think America could resolve this financial crisis without the help of the government?

And does anybody really think it would be a good idea NOT to monitor volcanoes?

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McCain and Jindal on Obama’s Speech

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | TV and text | No Comments

Katie Couric begins the interview with some instant-polls on public reaction to the President’s speech and ends by asking McCain for his thoughts on Palin’s future. An analysis of Jindal’s take is inside (commentators say he is “childish, amateurish”):
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