Posted on 09/24/2010 6:00:10 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
All anyone in America who cares about politics was talking about this week was the searing encounter that captured, in a way that hasn't been done before, the essence of the political moment we're in. When 2010 is reviewed, it will be the clip the producers pick to illustrate the president's disastrous fall.
It is Monday, Sept. 20, the middle of the day, in Washington. CNBC is holding a town hall for the president. A woman stands—handsome, dignified, black, a person with presence. She looks as if she may be what she turns out to be, an Obama supporter who in 2008 put up street signs, passed out literature and tried to win over co-workers. As she later told the Washington Post, "I was thinking that the people who were against him and didn't believe in his agenda were completely insane."
The president looked relieved when she stood. Perhaps he thought she might lob a sympathetic question that would allow him to hit a reply out of the park. Instead, and in the nicest possible way, Velma Hart lobbed a hand grenade.
"I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran, and I'm one of your middle-class Americans. And quite frankly I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are." She said, "The financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family." She said, "My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot-dogs-and-beans era of our lives. But, quite frankly, it is starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we are headed."
What a testimony. And this is the president's base. He got that look ... (snip)
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All anyone in America who cares about politics was talking about —
Even the first few words are misleading. That definitely is not ALL ANYONE IN AMERICA ...
I’m not a subscriber, so I’ll have to miss her words of wisdom.
Has she stopped the Kool-Aid thing, yet? She is one of the big reasons we’ve been saddled with this idiot.
Is it possible to finish reading the article without subscribing?
I thought I tried to use a link that didn’t require subscription. I’ll look again.
Saw the deeply creepy, whispery, please-forget-I’m-from-working-class-roots-now-that-I-own-a-condo-on-Park-Avenue Peggy on Morning Joe this morning. While pushing the paperback version of her twenty-year old tome, she still has more airs than Loretta Young sweeping through the door frame. Yuck!
thanks :-)
Really? As I've said before, Obama couldn't lead a group of starving people to a free buffet. I've seen ball bearings with a better grasp of economics.
You consider the opening phrase of the opening sentence of a political commentary column to be "minutiae"? Do you agree with Peggy that out of all the big stories that dot the political landscape this week, the only one that anybody who really follows politics was talking about is this "I'm exhausted defending you" encounter? Just look at what topics have been posted this week, and count the number of threads and comments posted about this topic vs the threads and comments posted on other topics. I'm not sure this is even in the top 5, let alone "all anyone who cares about politics was talking about". Peggy's opening premise is completely wrong, so how relevant is her analysis of this seminal event? But, that's just minutiae.
Well, I promise you she won’t be too exhausted to vote Democrat in November and also in 2012.
Miss Marmelstein, Stop watching Morning Joe immediately. It can cause stroke, dementia, and reduced sex drive. Please, for your own sake, stop now. Your future health is at stake!
IMHO, 'Yes We Can'!
The questioner was merely an actor playing a part. To the extent that her "question" may have caused political embarrassment for Obama, it would be no more or less of a screw up than almost everything this Administration has done to date, or can be expected to do in the future. Really, is anyone expecting any sort of competence in any area? Virtually all his staged events and photo-ops are subjects of derision here. And this one was little different.
ML/NJ
She’s one of the reasons I stopped subscribing to the WSJ. Remind me as I confuse the two harpies. Who is the plagiarizer Noonan or the other harpy whose name escapes me?
Subscribe? I wouldn’t subscribe to wsj online if they hosted new commentary from dead people, never mind dead-to-me people like Peggy Noonan.
Perhaps. I didn’t read the rest of the article so I don’t know. Can we acknowledge that the pompous opening statement is ridiculous hyperbole without ridiculing someone who points that out? I hope so.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
is this a non-subscription link?
NOPE
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