(From the Cincinnati Enquirer)
STEUBENVILLE — Non-bluetongue cows going to Turkey. A dream about Jerry Seinfeld in the back seat of a car. Californians as “a bunch of wackadoodles.”
John Kasich’s second State of the State speech Tuesday was rambling and, at times, bizarre. Among his head-jerking references, Kasich told the first three winners of a newly created state courage award not to sell the medals on eBay, pointed out his “hot wife,” and imitated someone with Parkinson’s disease when he talked about “deep brain massage.”
In other words, typical Kasich.
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(From the Huffington Post)
During the address, Kasich imitated a Parkinson's patient, cried, insulted the people of California, praised his "hot wife," gave 14 shout-outs to the same person and played an awards show host while tearfully channeling a famously emotional fellow Ohio Republican, House Speaker John Boehner.
Roughly 70 minutes into the speech, Kasich discussed medical research and its impact on the Buckeye State's economy. He was highlighting a deep brain massage program at Ohio State University to cure Parkinson's when he started simulating the shaking actions that mark the disease as a means of highlighting what he and his cabinet saw when they visited the facility.
"By the way, he's got a guy working up there by the name of Doctor Rezai -- this guy is doing deep brain massage," Kasich said of the program. "And I went up -- the cabinet saw it, but I was up there and there was a man and what he does is he puts a sensor imprint in the brain and pacemaker in the shoulder and it sends a signal to disrupt the bad signals that cause Parkinson's in people. There was a man, they shut off the pacemaker, they put it back on. He gave me a carved piece of wood. It was like magic."
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(Buster's 30-Second Analysis)
Our governor is required to give just one big "important" speech every year, the State of the State address. It's a mix of tradition, ritual, ceremony, and media event. What does it suggest about that governor when he delivers such a formal speech without any prepared remarks, but instead with random notes scribbled on scraps of paper? ("Wait -- where'd I put that cocktail napkin? I had some good stuff on it. Damn!") That sort of Alfred E. Neuman attitude says that person is either reckless, or flat doesn't give a shit, or has arrogantly overestimated his own abilities. Probably all of the above.
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