Broken Glass Democrats Can their anger overcome Bush's normality?

The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 19, 2004 | PEGGY NOONAN

[Wolfstar]

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.

[texasflower]

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.

[texasflower]

You are correct. See post 42.

[CyberAnt]

Thank you! I knew I had read that somewhere .. and I did read that book, "A Charge to Keep".

[Hillary's Folly]

Thanks for the excerpt. 7 and 4. There's no doubt he was old enough for that episode to have lasting effect.

[HitmanLV]

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! ;-)

[DCPatriot]

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.

[windchime]

Bump!