Peggy Noonan, Then and Now: Notice her reaction to 2 first-time senators running for President

Pajamas Media ^ | 03/29/2015 | Ed Driscoll

[demshateGod]

That depends on how old you are. I was paying attention to politics in the 90’s when Noonan’s columns couldn’t be beat. Her article on Clinton’s kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez was cathartic for at least on 23 year old man who was so angry about it he was making a fool of himself (I can admit it now). I think she just got old, and doesn’t want to beleive the left really, absolutely hates us.

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[Steve_Seattle]

"Foreign relations?"

Having experience in foreign relations is a "gotcha" reserved for Republicans like Sarah Palin. Her mistake was in trying to pass off her meetings with Russian trade delegations as foreign policy experience, which drew sneers from her opponents.

She should have said that most presidents in the last 50 years - including Clinton, Obama, and Carter - have had little or no foreign policy experience prior to becoming president, and that a new president relies on advisors with expertise in the area, not to mention the State Department, the CIA, and other government agencies that have an institutional memory..

[SaraJohnson]

Peg is a progressive.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Hillary Clinton was a senator. She was secretary of state. And she was the wife of a President.

Nowhere in her resume is there management experience. And everything she has touched in 30 years have gone to cr*p.

[stellaluna]

Peg’s been dead to me since she attacked Sarah Palin. I stopped reading her and threw out her books.

[DiogenesLamp]

Hillary Clinton was a senator. She was secretary of state. And she was the wife of a President.

Nowhere in her resume is there management experience. And everything she has touched in 30 years have gone to cr*p.

Longer than that.

[Leep]

Insignificant.

[pugmama]

Noodles is at it again. What she thinks is irrelevant.

[hosepipe]

[HoosierWordsmith]

Yes, Margaret always apes the role of brightest and most discerning personage in the Manhattan and DC political salons...loves to wax poetic with her squishy, overly perspicacious gibberish....the female version of George Will, methinks?...both narcissists of their colloquy! Yikes, now I’m sounding like them....

[brownsfan]

“Yikes, now I’m sounding like them....”

It’s ok, to mock them in their own manner is entertaining. Alas, I’m not erudite enough to give that type of derision a good go.

[Last Dakotan]

The mind of a woman is a complicated thing....

[driftless2]

All the "experts" like Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, and a slew of others show that they can't be trusted. Because they don't know nearly as much as they think they do.

Barack Obama's background made it easy for any person with a shred of ability to discern bad actors to quickly see that Obama was just a Marxist clown from academia. And the "experts" couldn't see through him. These people should not be allowed to call themselves conservatives....or journalists.

[kenmcg]

Peggy Noonan is just interested in getting to parties on the Beltway circuit. She is far removed from everyday Americans.

[JPG]

Peggy, you ignorant.......

[marron]

Did Mr. Obama permanently lower the bar? Did his winning and holding the presidency with such limited experience, and his governing in many eyes so unsuccessfully, leave a whole generation of politicians thinking “I can do that!” and “Even I can do better than that!”

Well, anyone who isn't Muslim Brotherhood should be able to do better than Obama.

But, no, what makes people ignore his "limited" experience is, first, the complete failure of the professional politicians to respond to the obamists. Complete failure.

And secondly, the clarity of Cruz's principled positions.

And, thirdly, if you do a little digging, the guy's resume is pretty impressive. If past is prologue, he is going to be a very good president. Anyone could have known that Obama was going to be a human wrecking ball, and anyone can know that Cruz is going to be a very good president.

[reasonisfaith]

But Peggy Noonan is the left.

[SoConPubbie]

Hey Lakeshark,

Looks like SeekAndFind beat us to it.