You said it best in your post #9
What I noted was alot of FEAR. As if talking of wanting the world to be a freer place was a fearful thing. Like a bunch of scared old maids are fearing someone rocking the boat. I think he disavowed the policies of the past, those of cosying up to tyrants. The very policies that the dems say resulted in 911. I don't think GWB is starting a military crusade.
The ONLY reason Sissy Matthews liked the speech is because it contained so much red meat for his sniveling liberal pea brain to drool over.
I watched Matthews instead of Fox because (loser) Scrum was on with him. Shrum was listed as a Kerry adviser? Right!
Sissy was completely pissing over himself just waiting to get his DNC talking points.
"Afraid of losing your place in the Speech writing hall of fame?"
LOL, that's exactly what I was thinking! I have always said that Peggy Noonan can be so purple in her prose that if the word maudlin did not exist it would have to be invented just for her. I mean I like her well enough, but for her to say someone is "over the top" in their florid writing is just a great example of the pot calling the kettle black.
I didn't see too much of the inaugural, but I saw enough to know that W just basically gave the back of his hand to his leftist critics, and good on him for doing so. I wish I could have watched the whole thing, but the one part I did see that was great was the pipe & drum band playing "when the saints come marching in", oh how the godless commies must have HATED that.
Poor Pegeen, I'd respond to this, but I'd just be mean about it; and her strange turn of contrariness is just kind of sad.
Noonan: “The speech did not deal with specifics--9/11, terrorism, particular alliances, Iraq. It was, instead, assertively abstract.” – “Assertively abstract” – Well, that's good.
Bush: “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." – Sounds good to me, and needed to be said.
Noonan: “Ending tyranny in the world? Well that's an ambition, and if you're going to have an ambition it might as well be a big one. But this declaration, which is not wrong by any means, seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing.” – Peggy may be disturbed. Ha.. She’s disturbed because her input may not have been requested .
Noonan: “Again, this is not heaven, it's earth.” – The President never said that it was heaven.
Bush: “we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." – Yes, this might have been said better. Maybe – “we are ready to reach for perhaps the greatest achievements in the history of freedom” would have been better.
Noonan:“One wonders if they shouldn't ease up, calm down, breathe deep, get more securely grounded. The most moving speeches summon us to the cause of what is actually possible. Perfection in the life of man on earth is not.” – Peggy has a lot of nerve. I’ve read her books carefully and much of her other writing. She has a lot of nerve. She has often had a gardenful of flowery, high-reaching vanities throughout her writings.
Calm down Peggy. You've been so great in the past, what's happening in that head?
Yes, odd isn't it?
Only conservatives find his tirade chilling.