Noonan does not realize how much she damaged here career in 2008. Whether it was stupidity, Beltway arrogance or blind disdain for Sarah Palin that caused her to jump on the Obama bandwagon, it changed many people’s view of her forever. A million columns like this aren’t going to change it.
Sorry about peggy. She also was ignorant of the future under this clown so she won’t get a break from me. Lots of them still refuse to see/get it. At least she finally woke up. Maybe.
Good call MOTUS. Most people don’t remember what a cheerleader Peggy Noonan was for Obama. From an article I wrote for AT a while back:
Peggy Noonan had a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal titled “When Americans Saw the Real Obama.” Ms. Noonan is regarded as a conservative literary and journalistic icon...or at least she was. She was a speechwriter and special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. She is a bestselling author and a trustee of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (a conservative economic think-tank) and she has been awarded many honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of her life’s work.
And yet, she too was mesmerized by Barack Hussein Obama’s spellbinding oratory and his dreamy narrative of hope and change. Her October 31, 2008 Wall Street Journal piece, titled “The Case for Barack Obama, in Broad Strokes,” convinced her readers and fans that she had lost her mind. Noonan boldly proclaimed that Obama was the hope of the nation, that he would change the course of world history for the better, and she practically wept over his exemplary personal qualities. The left-wing vilifier-blogger, Wonkette, praised Noonan as “Obama’s #1 Fan.”
The conservative world was stunned. How could the brightest among us be fooled so easily by such a patently transparent political con artist — one who had a veneer-thin resume, complete lack of qualifications, and an alarming history as a Marxist radical? But fooled Noonan was — hook, line and sinker.
And now the scales have fallen from her eyes. Noonan now sees Obama as an incompetent career politician, an ordinary man with feet of clay. She can’t bring herself to admit that he remains the committed radical Marxist revolutionary that he always was. Of the Denver Debate, in which Romney humiliated and exposed Obama, she wrote, “People saw for the first time an Obama they may have heard about on radio or in a newspaper but had never seen.”
Not so, Ms. Noonan. Fully half of Americans had doubts about Obama from the beginning, and a great many of us saw through him the first time he took the national stage to read from his teleprompter. Even my young daughter saw through Obama early on. “He reminds me of a mean teenage girl,” she once said of him. “He makes faces at people. He’s vain, self-centered, and rude. He never tells the truth about anything.” That pretty much sums him up. But he successfully fooled millions of people into believing wholeheartedly in him. The progressive left embraced him as their Light Worker, The Messiah, The One. He fooled millions, even the best and brightest among us, who should have known better. And now we have to deal with him.
The world calls it ISIS or Islamic State. Why does he need a separate language? How does that help?
When in doubt, always invent your own language; that way nobody will know exactly what you’re talking about.
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This is not a mystery. ISIL infers an area of the Middle East that includes Israel. IS or ISIS doesn't. Since Obama is sympathetic to the goal of Islamic control of the lands currently occupied by the Israelis the choice of ISIL was was obvious - to Obama.
I remember well Peggy creaming her panties for 0bama in 2008.
Noonan is just a writer, who cares what she thinks?
Stopped reading Peggoty after her elite sensibility was offended by Palin. Learned more than I ever wanted to know by reading her obit on Joan Rivers. Aspires to be one with the Beautiful People.
As do his earnest supporters, like Peggy Noonan.
‘Bad judgment: *ahem* right from the very start.
And we don’t say this because he’s so famously bright—academically credentialed, smooth, facile with words, quick with concepts. (That’s the sort of intelligence the press and popular historians most prize and celebrate, because it’s exactly the sort they possess.)’
Wrong on so many levels, it’s almost impossible to sort them all out. First, how on earth does she know he’s bright? Has she seen his transcripts? His theses? Those who worked closely with him labeled Obama, “lazy, ignorant and stupid”. Where does this ‘so bright’ come from??
Secondly, journalists are so bright too? Really? They come across as way below average in intelligence [on the whole, anyway; there are always a few—a very few—exceptions]. It’s hard to think of another career set that appear to be so intellectually limited. Talk about out of touch; Noonan looks to be going for the gold in that category.
Maybe to a bunch of intellectually challenged journalists Obama appears to be bright. Perhaps his below-average-intelligence impresses them because that is the kind of intelligence they possess too.
In any event, this is a ghastly column. I don’t ordinarily read Noonan’s work. I wish I hadn’t in this case. It was disturbingly bad.
Peg thinks she gets an eternal pass as a conservative by her position as one of Reagan’s speechwriters. Got news for ya’ Peg, being one of Reagan’s speechwriters was kind of like being manager of the 27 Yankees. A lot of people could have done it and got the same results. It wasn’t the packaging, it was the substance...
Liberals just finding out Obama isn’t a dim bulb but a burned out bulb oh those fast thinking devils.
Some quality time spent on FR back in ‘08 would have brought Dear Peggy up to speed on The Won. Sadly, she had to learn the hard way, and being so much smarter than the rest of us doesn’t make the crow tastier.
I read Ms. Noonan’s column Saturday morning and was immediately put off by “His essential problem is that he has very poor judgment.” Sorry, his “essential problem” is that he thoroughly disdains all of Western Civilization and especially the United States of America. He is an islamist manchurian president intent on our downfall and the elimination of the white race. Every single one of his actions make sense if you look at him through that lens.
She had neither the courage or honesty to do so then and now, she cries “poor judgment” as an alibi for Obama in order to provide an alibi for herself.
Because excusing herself for failing to foresee his “poor judge” is so much easier than excusing herself for not having the courage and honesty to see and tell the obvious truth back in 2008.
Okay, Okay. Let’s vette our disattifaction, AGAIN, with Peggy and take a deep breath and read what she’s writing.
She’s absolutely correct on this, and I agree with the majority posting here, that WE KNEW THIS GUY was an empty suit. Everything he does, starting with his cool school approach speaks entirely of incompetence.
We should over read what’s going on here. He’s not and never has been remotely qualified for this job. Problem is, why is she in the minority of journalists saying this?
Peggy Noonan - Beltway Conservative?