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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I am a fan of Peggy's most of the time..This just floors me...
"Never trust a thin lipped bitch"...
Does Barbara Boxer qualify, with that ultra-thin, wrinkly slit in her face?
God can and should be mentioned (invoked) many times in an inaugural speech in a time a war. GW was not speaking to the Businesss Roundtable
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New York Post ^ | 1/21/05 | JOHN PODHORETZ
Re: President Bush ----- I hired a leader and man of his word...not an orator.
Amusing, no? that she goes over the top in her critique of Bush's speech supposedly going over the top?
I agree with you, MEG; Bush made a thoughtful, determined, historic break with the past in this speech, wherein he makes our security and our idealism one and the same. Now it is not our policy to ignore the cancer of humanity in chains, while we prate on and bleed in wars about "security" alone, because our security is harmed by such, and because it is morally wrong to do so.
All he really did was recognize and highlight THE TRUTH of what goes on in this world, and his determination to deal with it on that truthful basis.
I heard her initial reaction, and she seemed sold that this was America at its most traditionally optimistic best. She said Europeans say there's nothing we can do about the way of things in the world, while America always says, yes, maybe there is.
Something happened, in between there, perhaps to tick her off.
Whatever it was, no excuses, her piece is bunk. Coming from me, someone who has admired most of her efforts in the past.
Fleas and mangy dogs.
Just have to see how this goes with her, but she's old enough that her troubling should be given an account.
Both Lincoln and Washington at war were both under constant and long oppression by the lukewarm.
I must add....I don't really hear Noonan when she speaks & runs her hands through her hair......I just....just...what was I saying?
I disagree with Ms. Noonan's commentary.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion even
when they are wrong. Ms. Noonan is very wrong.
Her commentary is way off the mark.
Does she have a bad case of PMS and/or writer's envy?
Only God knows.
"I am a fan of Peggy's most of the time..This just floors me..."
I know...I am down there on the floor, too. I heard her initial reaction. Something happened. Not excusing her one bit, though. Whatever it was, she allowed it to take over and run her off a !000-ft. cliff.
You said it, Peggy wasn't asked to participate, I guess. She's been going soft lately anyhow.
And, she should lose the silly Carl Levin glasses on the end of the nose look!
LOL! Well at least she's thin-lipped, but not a "bitch".
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An idealistic Bush puts dictators on notice.
A different view
I have said it before and I will say it again - as I see others are now saying it on this thread. Peggy Noonan sounds bitter and jealous, somewhat peeved that the times are passing her by, that younger and better writers and speechwriters are out there, slaying the false liberal ideas with their pens. I was inspired by the Presidents speech because I too believe in freedom and liberty. I too, believe freedom and liberty belong to everyone and not just to Americans. Isn't that the main reason immigrants come to this country?
Listening to Rush yesterday afternoon and a woman caller stated what was possibly the best line from the President's speech. Self-government is dependent on governing the self. A bitch-slap of an iron fist covered by a velvet glove across the face of the hanger-ons of the 60's and 70's feel good generation. President Bush has never let me down with his speeches.
I loved the music!
If our military does not kill the terrorists, then militant Islam will take over America. If that happens, then anyone like Noonen who says there is too much God (Allah, or whatever the terrorists want to call God) will suffer beheading.
Sounds to me like she is "FOR SALE"!
People like her are not to be believed!
Somebody else with a "God" problem.
"I loved the music!"
Same here!
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