Bobby Jindal = Kenneth The Page?

It didn't take long tonight for Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who provided the official "opposition response" to President Obama's speech to Congress, to pick up the new moniker of "Kenneth the Page" (from 30 Rock). I gotta love it that Tina Fey's show has seeped into the culture like that!

One of the stranger bits of Jindal's response was his apparent stance that governments get in the way of volunteerism during crises. I guess Louisiana must have some pretty screwed up emergency response services for him to hold that perspective (I'd much rather have my fate in the hands of highly skilled police, fire fighters or rescue workers than have to rely on people as untrained in such matters as I am!)

Of all the many great statements that Barack Obama made, I thought that his goal of "by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world" was perhaps the most amazing. That speaks volumes for what he thinks is wrong with his country, and how to correct it. Maybe by 2020 there won't be anyone left in the U.S. who thinks that "nuclear" is pronounced "nukuler" (or at least, not in the White House!)