[Servant of the Cross]

Yes, it's Dame Peggy Noonan. Queen of the Topsider faux conservatives (Brooks,Frum,Parker) [snort]. Yes, she was stupidly in the tank for 0 in '08. But it is enjoyable to watch her finally realize that her 0 has got nothing. And she can write. Remember she wrote for Ronald Maximus. And she skewers him. Enraged vs. Exhausted is exactly what November, 2010 is all about.

[Freddd]

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 ...

[Daisyjane69]

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.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Is it possible to finish reading the article without subscribing?

[miss marmelstein]

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!

[econjack]

What I liked was Obama’s response, since he was completely off-guard. In essence, he said he expects differences of opinion on the way he solves problems. He concluded by saying something like: “You elected me to lead and that's what I'm doing.”

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.

[ml/nj]

Maybe she can write, but she apparently cannot think. The questioner was no more exhausted than Joe Biden is. She is part of the team. She was on television the NEXT DAY defending him. She said she "had to defend him." Who has to defend a politician?

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

[SanFranDan]

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?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

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.

[Steely Tom]

I'll never forget the time, back in the '90's, during one of the many Clinton scandals, Ms. Noonan appeared on some TV show (this was back when I still "watched TV"). It may have been Charlie Rose; it was a panel discussion. Ms. Noonan, for some reason known only to herself, persisted in pronouncing the word "scandal" as "scan-dahl," with the accent on the second syllable. "Scan-DOLL." Just like that. Every time she got a chance to talk. "Well, I think the thing that makes this scan-DOLL different from the Clinton Administration's previous scan-DOLLs..." It was weird and distracting. Who could possibly know what the heck was up with that?

[38special]

I’m sure she would vote for him again...

[Republic of Texas]

Thanks Peggy. I knew this two years ago. If you can blow the guy once, you’ll probably do it again. idiot.

[pnh102]

With all due respect to the broad who whined about being exhausted “defending” 0bama to everyone else, it means nothing if she continues to vote for him and those who support his policies.

[Obadiah]

Interesting.

Noonan goes to great lengths to point out that, anecdotally, women are now more engaged in the process than seemingly ever before. And then Noonan cites a litany of reasons as to why this might be, such as, women are the family decision makers with respect to health care and education, etc.

She makes it sound as if women are so wisely ahead of the curve.

While I'm more than delighted that women have finally waken up from their emotional slumber, I would hardly say that women are leading the parade here, but that is another liberal meme, “women are so smart, they see things neanderthal men can't see”.

Excuse me, what have men been railing about for YEARS. Remember the “angry white men”?

As I said, I'm glad to have my female sisters along in support, but I detest the same old liberal stereotype that a woman's antenna is keen and is a leading indicator. Poppycock. Men have been shouting about this danger for years now, only to be sandbagged as crazy by people like Noonan.

I'm glad women may finally be awakening from their emotionally warm “government takes care of me” coma. It's about time!

[Bean Counter]

[Rockingham]

Noonan, quoting GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, also correctly points to the outsize role of sincere, hard-working women in running the tea parties. And, dare I add, our gals are good looking and good company.

[battletank]

“And she can write. “

I would respectfully disagree. Her writing is HORRIBLE, IMO. It’s full of flowery sweetness that makes me positively GAG. Not to mention that she is often on the “wrong side” of important issues. She’s a sugary has-been.

[Clintonfatigued]

Here’s an excellent excerpt:

“The media called 1994 “the year of the angry white male.” That was the year of the Republican wave that yielded a GOP House for the first time in 40 years. “I look at this year as the Rage of the Bill-Paying Moms,” Ms. Blackburn says. “They are saying ‘How dare you, in your arrogance, cap the opportunities my child will have? You’ll burden them with so much debt they won’t be able to buy a house—all because you can’t balance the budget.’” “

For years, the grass roots and especially concerned mothers & grandmothers regarded Washington, D.C. as wasteful and arrogant, but something that effects other people. Their opposition to the ‘Rats was philosophical and political. But ever since Obama & Company decided to have the government choose our doctors, that changed. Now, it’s personal.