10:24 Begins by discussing O's personal story- nice way of seguing into his own!
10:26 "Amercans can do anything!" Yes, I'm afraid we did.
10:28 Begins substance with cliche about how greatness of America is not in our government. Silly cliche- your job is to be the government!
10:29 Tax cut blather-we're for all the tax cuts O is for, only more of it. Reminds me how non-transformational O. is. 40 years ago, Rs proposed new spending programs and Ds outbid them. Now, a supposedly liberal D proposes tax cuts and Rs outbid them. Maybe O is to Bush as Nixon (may his memory be a blessing) is to Johnson- less an ideological transformation to a slight mid-course correction to an out of control Texan.
10:29 Ridicules spending, but picks bad examples. I don't see how high-speed rail is so ridiculous.
10:30 Tax cuts, spending cuts, blah blah blah. Sounds shopworn, like Jindal running for Bush's third term.
10:31 Drill, baby drill!
10:31 "Universal access to affordable health care coverage" without "universal government-run health care." Nice if you can swing it!
10:33 "Now is no time to dismantle the defenses that have protected the country for hundreds of years." I'm guessing that 100 years ago our defenses were a bit more modest that O. wants, or Jindal for that matter.
10:34 Our party got away from its principles- can't deny that.
"Our party is determined to regain your trust." Good.
10:35 More optimism.
Mediocre- thought he would be better somehow. (Then again, I'm always tougher on Rs- I expect mediocrity from Ds).
One thing about Jindal's speech: except for a line here and there, reveals almost no awareness of economic situation. Almost every line in speech could have been given at this time in 2007 or 2008.
