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Broken Glass Democrats
Can their anger overcome Bush's normality?
The Wall Street Journal ^
| February 19, 2004
| PEGGY NOONAN
Posted on 02/18/2004 10:59:30 PM PST by neverdem
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A few quick thoughts about the president. I saw him this week at a White House event. I'd been looking forward to it. A lot had happened since I'd last spent time with him, in July, for an interview for Ladies Home Journal, and I was eager to get a sense of how he's feeling, thinking and looking as the election gears up. Also I've been tough on him lately and wondered how he treats people under such circumstances.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; angrydems; georgewbush; gwb2004; kerry; peggynoonan
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To: Keith in Iowa
Noonan's writing always has a kind of gauzy, dreamy, rambling, soft-focus quality that doesn't appeal to me. I want someone say what they have to say and get to the point. With Noonan's writing, one often has to search among the "fuzz" to find what it is she's trying to suggest. Sometimes you find her point, sometimes you don't. Mostly, what she has to say seems irrelevant to me.
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posted on
02/20/2004 10:51:51 AM PST
by
Wolfstar
(A self-confident cowboy nation, or a Kerrified nation. Your choice.)
To: Hillary's Folly
From "A Charge to Keep, My Journey to the White House" by George W. Bush
Excerpt from Chapter 2 Midland Family Values
"To this day, I am certain that I saw her, her small head rising barely above the backseat of my parents' green Oldsmobile as it drove up in front of Sam Houston Elementary School in Midland. I was walking down an outdoor hall with a friend, carrying a phonograph back to the principal office. The instant I saw the car, I put it down and took off running, eager to welcome Mom and Dad and my little sister, Robin, back from New York, where Robin had been seeing a doctor because she was sick. I got to the car, still certain Robin was there, but of course, she was not. Mom and Dad had come to school to tell me Robin wasn't coming home, not then or ever.
I was sad and stunned. I knew Robin had been sick, but death was hard for me to imagine. Minutes before, I had had a little sister, and now, suddenly, I did not. Forty-six years later, those minutes remain the starkest memory of my childhood, a sharp pain in the midst of an otherwise happy blur.
I was seven. Robin was almost four when she died of leukemia."
It just breaks my heart everytime I read it.
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posted on
02/20/2004 12:20:31 PM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: CyberAnt
You are correct. See post 42.
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posted on
02/20/2004 12:21:29 PM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: texasflower
Thank you! I knew I had read that somewhere .. and I did read that book, "A Charge to Keep".
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posted on
02/20/2004 1:23:30 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
To: texasflower
Thanks for the excerpt. 7 and 4. There's no doubt he was old enough for that episode to have lasting effect.
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posted on
02/21/2004 7:33:19 AM PST
by
Hillary's Folly
(Imagine there's no Hillary. It's easy if you try.)
To: Keith in Iowa
For reason's I can not fully explain, and though I'm 36 and I suspect Peggy may be old enough to be my mom, whenever I see her on tv the thought of a lusty roll in the hey crosses my mind.
I have this strange thing with big old Irish blondes, but they break your heart everytime! God help me! ;-)
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posted on
02/21/2004 7:47:20 AM PST
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: prairiebreeze
I agree with your assessment of Ms. Noonan.
She reads like she's phoning it in...like the Washington Wizards do after the 1st month of the season.
To: Tamsey
Bump!
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posted on
02/21/2004 5:16:47 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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