There is No Time, There will be Time [Peggy Noonan, 2001]

Wall Street Journal ^ | Updated Sept. 18, 2001 11:59 p.m. ET | Peggy Noonan

[Remole]

" . . . If someone does the big, terrible thing to New York or Washington, there will be a lot of chaos and a lot of lines going down, a lot of damage, and a lot of things won't be working so well anymore."

[Remole]

On the eve of 9/11 each year, I read this essay by Peggy Noonan. Written in the halcyon summer of 1998, she conveys a sense of wonder and fear.

[Cowboy Bob]

An Obama groupie. No thanks.

[beebuster2000]

was a groupie. now, major buyers remorse

[colorado tanker]

Noonan has been sharply critical of the regime for some time now.

I'll be flamed, but I will also say she is an excellent writer and I enjoy reading her stuff.

[rlmorel]

Well, I wouldn’t flame you, though I would disagree.

I stopped reading her stuff about ten years ago. And when I found out she supported Obama, well...there are only three choices: That person is ignorant, stupid, or liberal, perhaps all three.

But that person cannot be a conservative. He was (and is) so radical that support for him and conservatism (even of the most liberal stripe) are mutually exclusive 100% of the time.

[opus86]

Wow. I might just go buy some more water and bullets.

[colorado tanker]

I don't recall Noonan endorsing Obama in the 2008 election. I re-read her columns just before and just after and it's not in there.

What I recall is that she was terribly naive and believed the press's fake version of Obama and was one of those who wished him well, hoping he would have a successful presidency in the sense of bringing peace and prosperity to the country. Just before the election she wrote if he won he would govern like a Clintonesque center -left president. In this forum we were under no such illusions, knowing from the key parts of Obama's story that the guy was a hard core lefty b s ing the country. I agreed with Rush and hoped he would fail because I knew what he was going to attempt.

Well, Peggy and lots of others got their education and are now under no illusions about the guy and his regime.

[rlmorel]

Argh. I was simply disgusted by her.

Anyone with a conservative bone in their body could look at Obama far before he was elected and understand immediately that he was an enemy of this republic. I sure did. I admit I didn’t take him seriously at all, though.

But I will never understand her wishing him well. Wishing him well is the same as wishing evil on the country you love.

[rlmorel]

What you say is true. Hell, even the fat slob Moore is angry at him, but IIRC, it is because he hasn’t been radical enough, not because he is doing a poor job.