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Peggy Noonan: JFK Disease
Opinion Journal ^
| 03/04/04
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 03/03/2004 9:04:58 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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John Kerry certainly looks like a president--the thick steel-wool hair, the Lincolnian planes and shadows of his face. He is tall and slim and seems serious. He also has the guts to wear salmon-colored ties. A red tie is red and a blue tie is blue, and red and blue know what color they are. Salmon is a more delicate hue. Salmon can't decide what color it is. Sometimes it's pink and sometimes it's orange. It's like wearing ambivalence on your shirt. This is an unusual thing for a politician to do if it's thought through, and it takes courage.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; jfk; jfkdisease; johnkerry; kerry; kerry2004; peggynoonan; peggynoonanlist
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To: Pokey78
Peggy Noonan and Ann Coulter. Could any political party wish for more than that?
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posted on
03/04/2004 8:31:55 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Pokey78
That Mr. Kerry is a boring man means the election will be dirty and vicious. If he were interesting and dynamic and sunny, if he seemed both experienced and sincere, he arguably could win the upcoming race without letting his campaign get unduly nasty. But he is a charm-free zone on the stump, and he has offered no galvanizing political philosophy or higher meaning. His people will feel the only way he can win is to be uniquely destructive. How do we know that is coming? It has already begun. First the sustained attack on the president's National Guard service. It is early for such attacks. Second, the indiscreet threat by an unnamed Kerry adviser as reported weeks ago in the New York Times: "Everything--everything--is on the table." He, or she, has since been silenced. But the point was made.
What's that supposed to mean? Cocaine? Alcohol? Does anyone think Kerry didn't inhale on the antiwar trail? And there is the repeated insistence of those around Mr. Kerry that they're just not going to take it the way Michael Dukakis did; they'll fight when they're attacked. In this they are peddling a story line to the press: Democrats are unfairly attacked and have been too polite, too gentle, too liberal to fight back.
This would be the Michael Dukakis who was Willie Hortoned by Al Gore? Al Gore, the Republican? Sounds like Kerry thinks he's vulnerable as soft on crime. He's probably right, though less so than Dukakis was, since Kerry's never held an executive political office. I wonder what Kerry's record is on voting to confirm judges who habitually release repeat rapists on technicalities?
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posted on
03/04/2004 8:32:53 AM PST
by
Sabertooth
(Malcontent for Bush - 2004!)
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posted on
03/04/2004 8:46:04 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping, Pokey.
To: Dolphy
If insane isn't the right word, what do you call a man who holds so many contradictory positions and thinks he's the real JFK?An unprincipled opportunist who believes his own talking points.
That was a great article, but she failed to mention the borderline insanity of Al Gore. Thank goodness for the Republicans in Florida who showed up and voted.
To: Pokey78
Very good article. I didn't know Peggy Noonan could be so catty -- it's really funny!
To: Pokey78
[Gore] even wore makeup that echoed the heightened color of Mr. Reagan's cheeks. He wound up looking not like Mr. Reagan but like a turn-of-the-century madam in a San Francisco whorehouse, but that's not important. LOL... if I didn't read the by-line I'd think that was Coulter's writing.
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posted on
03/04/2004 12:26:53 PM PST
by
Sloth
(We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
To: Pokey78
bttt
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posted on
03/04/2004 12:27:55 PM PST
by
firewalk
To: SkyPilot
Where was that?
89
posted on
03/04/2004 2:06:20 PM PST
by
jjm2111
To: Pokey78
Peggy's being too nice to Kerry. He doesn't deserve it.
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posted on
03/04/2004 2:18:31 PM PST
by
hershey
To: mrs tiggywinkle; Mo1
...threw snowballs, bowled with oranges...
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posted on
03/04/2004 6:12:30 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(The Barbarians are Inside the Gates!)
To: Cai Della
They are already trying to make her crimes more distant in memory but they are doing it by claiming over and over that she didn't commit them, like murder of Vince Foster for one. Marianne Means article in today's paper mentions that one.
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posted on
03/06/2004 7:55:56 AM PST
by
buffyt
(Can you say Vice President Hillary? ME NEITHER!)
To: ALOHA RONNIE
Russert surely did his best to link JFK and Kerry Sunday.
Blatant and silly.
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posted on
03/08/2004 9:29:26 PM PST
by
des
To: Pokey78
bflr
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posted on
04/12/2004 11:39:24 AM PDT
by
cgk
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