[Mr Ramsbotham]

Noonan has been all over the map in recent years, I think she's been increasingly incoherent, but I think her praising Obama at the beginning only to hammer him later is a deliberate tactic used by many in the press, and in this case ostensibly on the right to appear fair minded.

Believe it or not, I distinctly recollect an interview of Margaret Thatcher shortly after Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976. She told the interviewer that she liked Carter because he was a "conservative with a small 'c.'" I kid you not; she actually said it.

[americanophile]

Who said that Noonan? Certainly not Thatcher!