Posted on 01/20/2005 9:33:31 PM PST by RWR8189
Was the president's speech a case of "mission inebriation"?
It was an interesting Inauguration Day. Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs. In fact, the night of the inaugural balls became known this year as The Night of the Long Furs.
Laura Bush's beauty has grown more obvious; she was chic in shades of white, and smiled warmly. The Bush daughters looked exactly as they are, beautiful and young. A well-behaved city was on its best behavior, everyone from cops to doormen to journalists eager to help visitors in any way.
For me there was some unexpected merriness. In my hotel the night before the inauguration, all the guests were evacuated at 1:45 in the morning. There were fire alarms and flashing lights on each floor, and a public address system instructed us to take the stairs, not the elevators. Hundreds of people wound up outside in the slush, eventually gathering inside the lobby, waiting to find out what next.
The staff--kindly, clucking--tried to figure out if the fire existed and, if so, where it was. Hundreds of inaugural revelers wound up observing each other. Over there on the couch was Warren Buffet in bright blue pajamas and a white hotel robe. James Baker was in trench coat and throat scarf. I remembered my keys and eyeglasses but walked out without my shoes. After a while the "all clear" came,
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oops - I didn't see it was you - - yuck! I posted to you -- I feel icky!
Thank You!!
Well, now you know how the rest of us feel when we see your nick.
That sound you hear is my point going over your head.
Thanks for that characterization. Handily used frequently among those who support the President, so.....lukewarmly.
No. I find Peggy to be a bloody hypocrite. "Conservatives receive a lot from Noonan"......well Peggy's in it for Peggy, and tonight she's made it perfectly blatant.
Sorry she didn't get a gig after "donating" her time. But I guess I'm expecting a little more, as a conservative.
Oh, wait, they do...
House for All Nations...
You think?
Sort of like the UNITED States of America are INTERDEPENDENT.
I though that would be obvious to anybody.
Except, of course, those who love to brand him as a globalist/one worlder.
Wow. She surprises me. I don't think I've ever heard her be anywhere near this critical of the Prez.
About the only thing she wrote that I agreed with is this: "Tyranny is a very bad thing and quite wicked, but one doesn't expect we're going to eradicate it any time soon. Again, this is not heaven, it's earth."
EXACTLY
Again, thank you... Nanny.
Not Peggy's best work. Perhaps the hotel incident upset her.
Sounds like somebody didn't get that job she wanted!
I too find this suprising coming from Noonan . No one on the left thought Reagan was sane when he called for an end to the USSR...and see where we are now
I thought the speech was the defining of our position in the world (against totalitariianism) not necessarily a call to war on all tyranies.
Oh, the memories that song brings back up to me! I'll I'm gonna say is it was a very memorable, wonderful year.
I love techno, too (but only until the mid 90's, modern techno is too "Long Island Dance-Club" for me). I've always thought that techno would be a perfect interstellar language. Anything would be better than that monotonous racket from from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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