BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal offered his first defense of last week’s national TV address, saying while people panned the delivery, he sticks by the message.
Jindal says it was difficult to follow President Barack Obama because he is such a great orator. The Louisiana governor says he’s not the best speaker but he thinks the philosophical position of the GOP that he outlined was important.
Jindal delivered the Republican response after Obama’s first address to Congress. In it, he criticized Obama’s stimulus package as too laden with unnecessary spending, and he talked of the need to shrink government.
The speech has been the target of political commentators, comics and bloggers who called it amateurish and out of step with the American public and who critiqued Jindal’s delivery as too “sing-songy.”
Jindal says the criticism won’t make him hire a speechwriter, however.—-Contact The Daily Reveille news staff at [email protected]