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.
JT...well said and I must also say that as a “Journalist” Peggy KNOWnothing should have done some background research while she was idolizing this creep and she would have seen his connections with Bill Ayers, bath houses, cocaine binges and his Muslim Marxist roots...