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Peggy Noonan: Way Too Much God
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 21, 2005 | Peggy Noonan

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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To: Paperdoll

Well, seeing as you're not even old enough to be my mother (well barely), and my digestion works just fine unaided, I would advise you to reserve that advice for the freepers for whom it may be needed.........they're out there. TRUST me. :o)


741 posted on 01/22/2005 2:39:13 PM PST by ohioWfan (Have you PRAYED for your President today?)
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To: iconoclast
Ah........I thought you were talking about Nixon when you said 'he had the sense to quit.' (You were a tad vague about it).

So you meant that President Bush should have quit and not even run for reelection like LBJ??

That would have put America in REAL great shape, now wouldn't it? With a Kerry Presidency to make all of us conservatives proud and happy. Sheesh!

742 posted on 01/22/2005 2:44:12 PM PST by ohioWfan (Have you PRAYED for your President today?)
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To: iconoclast

LOL!

George Herbert must be logged onto FR today. I prefer to think George Walker can defend himself, and hopefully can also distance himself from his dad's ideal of The New World Order.


743 posted on 01/22/2005 2:47:42 PM PST by Paperdoll
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To: Paperdoll; ohioWfan
I am sorry you feel that way, ohio. I thought I was talking to another Christian, who would welcome an endearment and a blessing. At the risk of making you see red again, I can only wonder why you come across with such rage, and so quickly on the attack mode. (Maybe take a laxative, it may help.)

Shades of Barbara Boxer in her 'questioning' of Condoleeza Rice! You've got the technique down pat, Paperdoll.

744 posted on 01/22/2005 2:50:51 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: RWR8189

Does Peggy have speechwriting envy? I am surprised at her criticism. Chil out Peggy. It's W's inauguration and a godly man is going to make a godly speech. And it's America so that's OK.


745 posted on 01/22/2005 2:51:32 PM PST by lawgirl (Proud 2 time voter for George W. Bush as of 7:21 AM CST, November 2, 2004. LUVYA DUBYA!!)
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To: arasina

LOL! Just good Christian love there, arasina. Just like Barbara feels for Condi. ;o)


746 posted on 01/22/2005 2:55:16 PM PST by ohioWfan (Have you PRAYED for your President today?)
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To: ohioWfan
This comment of yours is one of the DNC talking points...............(I pay attention to these things)..

Oooo! Am I supposed to be impressed? Intimidated?

I haven't the slightest idea of what the the DNC talking points are and it has never occurred to me to try to find them.

IMHO, only a very few jerks like you would.

747 posted on 01/22/2005 2:59:56 PM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: Glenmerle
Honestly, where does any Christian get off saying there's "too much God" in anything? It's absurd. Then there's the whole matter of her thinking the speech was too ambitious -- a call to create heaven on earth. That's also at odds with what she's said in the past.

Peggy Noonan is a former Dim/liberal. Some time ago she wrote an interesting (but tediously long) piece on how that transformation occurred. She seems to want to be acceptable to both sides and remain a viable punditress. Who knows, maybe she has applied for Dan Rather's job and had to prove publicly that she can be 'unbiased' LOL.

748 posted on 01/22/2005 3:00:47 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: ohioWfan

I feel the love. ;)


749 posted on 01/22/2005 3:01:56 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: iconoclast

("Why disguise the true identity of the enemy?")
>He's been curiously evasive about this since day one. He's now expnded our "enemies list" from the "axis of evil" to 2/3 of the planet!<

IMHO, the enemy is anyone who is against freedom. This is a spiritual war we are in, and the true NAME of the enemy is Satan. That enemy lives not only abroad, but is alive and well within our very borders.


750 posted on 01/22/2005 3:03:49 PM PST by Paperdoll
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To: iconoclast

Isn't it time for your nap?


751 posted on 01/22/2005 3:08:17 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: lawgirl
Nicely summed up, lawgirl.

This is America. "God-talk" is permitted by it's leader.

752 posted on 01/22/2005 3:15:39 PM PST by ohioWfan (Have you PRAYED for your President today?)
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To: iconoclast
Only jerks listen to White House press conferences?

Interesting perspective, iconoclast.

753 posted on 01/22/2005 3:17:21 PM PST by ohioWfan (Have you PRAYED for your President today?)
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To: MissAmericanPie

Your posts on this thread make extremely good sense to me.

The problems of illegal immigration and of outsourcing all our manufacturing are serious ones which have not yet been addressed by our President.

Before Bush looks to ending tyranny worldwide (I wonder what his friends in the Saudi royal family have to say about that), he should open up his eyes to the very real domestic problems facing us here.

In addition, he needs to adopt some fiscal reality. If our sons and daughters are to encircle the globe to "spread democracy" (is it "Democracy" or is it "Empire"?) who will pay the trillions and trillions of dollars this will cost?

Sometimes I think our President is pennywise and poundfoolish.


754 posted on 01/22/2005 3:19:35 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Dysfunctional

>Having a thick skin is important in forum posting<

Thank you, Dys. I have been baptised by the best of them on FR, and seem to still be hanging around the ole pot bellied stove. I call it "kickin' dirt" with my fellow FReepers.

If you want to get right down to it, maybe PN's gripe is really with GWB's speech writer. PN's written some pretty wonderful speeches herself in her time. I can't buy a jealousy streak though. Her editor may have had something to do with her piece.


755 posted on 01/22/2005 3:19:41 PM PST by Paperdoll
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To: All

Knock off the personal attacks.


757 posted on 01/22/2005 3:33:07 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: iconoclast; MEG33; ohioWfan
If you two ever make it to the half-wit level then teaming up on me might get interesting

name calling

n : verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

758 posted on 01/22/2005 3:34:31 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: RWR8189

Two words to describe Noonan.

Intellectual snobbery living in an Ivory Tower.

I mean really. Who cannot understand what the Prez was saying in his inaugural speech. It was pure poetry in speech, even if GWB doesn't have a speaking flair.

I've lost all admiration for Noonan, who obviously thinks it rank or insulting to mention the Almighty, or to set our goals high.

I guess she would rather have listened to some income tax actuarial tables describing the out years of Social Security.

Really. Methinks Noonan has been hanging out with too many snootish bigwigs lately.


759 posted on 01/22/2005 3:35:46 PM PST by Edit35
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To: Paperdoll

Welcome to Free Republic. (Although you've been here since September, this is the first time I've noticed you.)

I see in your profile that you love "the moon and the stars".

You seem to be quite a romantic, so I understad why you are dismayed by Peggy's analysis of the Inaugural Speech.

How man other men, besides the President, have promised you "the moon and the stars"?


760 posted on 01/22/2005 3:39:25 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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