Instead, his well-written speech -- presented as a refutation of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address -- was incomplete and dominated by many of the straw-man arguments he decried.

CNN: Jindal, courage is not enough

There was an enormous television screen with crystal-clear reception mounted on one of the ship's walls above the pool deck, and as Barack Obama delivered his inaugural address at the United States Capitol, he delivered it at the same moment here, on a speck in the ocean.

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