Posted on 01/22/2005 5:31:27 AM PST by pickrell
I agree with you guys about Peggy Noonan. I don't why this usually thoughtful conservative went off on the deep end. Virtually all Americans believe in God, so what's wrong with talking about God in such a beautiful and uplifting way?
Perhaps Peggy is still upset that the sugary mess she wrote for the first President Bush in 1989 is considered one of the worst inaugural speeches in history.
Ron, great response. Dumb question - have you emailed it to her? I was going to send a response but figured those more eloquant, such as yourself, would be more apt to prick her heart.
I agree with you. IMHO the Democrat Party is guilty of of both treason and being traitors. There is no doubt in my mind that many in the Democrat Party have given comfort and aid to the enemy, and as a result, the USA has suffered many more military and civilian deaths and injuries then we would have if the Democrat Party was loyal to the United States of America. As for me, I am a take no prisoners Republican. I want to see the current Democrat Party destroyed at the ballot box forever. As for Peggy Noonan, this outburst about "too much God" is not new. Ms. Noonan, whom I admire greatly, has cuddled up closely to the Democrat liberals on the numerous occasions she has been on MSNBC. Like Joe Scarbourgh, she believes in sleeping with the enemy every once and awhile, sad to say.
This is really the only way Peggy Noonans thoughts make any sense. During the election campaign she was so much pro-Bush and not against Kerry per se, but just against what the left stood for. I don't think she's changed her mind and gone to the dark side, so being 'nice' is the only logical explanation.
BTW, I wish she'd give up being nice to dems. Personally, I think that if you have demwits on the run you make them run till they drop. I can understand President Bush being nice to dims because his position requires diplomacy. Not so with the rest of us.
I ditto your sentiment re: P.N.
After the official outdoors event ended, my thoughts were something akin to what she wrote......but my thoughts included the words of various speakers, rather than just the Prez. I am hoping that P.N. was inadvertently remiss in attributing her reaction uniquely to the Prez. Some of the others laid it on pretty thick, IMO.
This seems to be the paragraph that caused the uproar....had she chosen words other than "God drenched" and "invoked relentlessly", and attributed it to ALL who contributed to that impression, the uproar would be much less, at least as pertains to the Prez himself. JMO...
" The president's speech seemed rather heavenish. It was a God-drenched speech. This president, who has been accused of giving too much attention to religious imagery and religious thought, has not let the criticism enter him. God was invoked relentlessly. "The Author of Liberty." "God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind . . . the longing of the soul."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
Someone definately needs to E-mail this to Peggy Noonan. I have always had great deal of respect for her as well as her "ear for a speech". I do however, believe she just flat missed the mark this time.
Methinks that Noonan wants to claim the John McCain chair of political punditry with the mainstream media.
...and I think she is following yet another, but one who used to be a "true believer" in things right -- she seems to be pulling an Arianna Huffington; it's just too irresistible, it would seem, to gravitate toward all those Bordeaux and Brie soiree-goers, once you've jet-setted with them for a while.
I think this is an article she will live to regret.
Well done.
It is quite OK with me for my President to be a fool for Jesus/God.
You know, you might just be on to something.
OK here with me, too!
Absolutely NOT. And don't mess with me, Texas. I'm Texan born and bred. You've already voiced your inane opposition on the other Noonan thread. How about trying original thought? Might do you some good. Peg's one of us. Don't be so quick to slam her.
What did Mark have to say? When he was on the radio here in Memphis he could be pretty caustic.
"...not shove God into their throats."
That sounds like involuntary communion. Whatever it takes! Peggy's got her own little tempest in a teapot now, I hope she's happy.
And, btw, what the heck kind of a word is "heavenish"? One shouldn't just make up words, we've got lots of good ones already.
BRILLIANT!
Noonan has always left me uncomfortable, although she seems universally adored among conservatives. I sense a sort-of stiff narcissism and obsession with style. But Reagan would not have, and Bush will not, be intimidated into her pointless 'sophistication.'
In any case, you said it all so poignantly, I could hardly add a thing -- Your essay deserves large exposure for many reasons.
As for Ms. Noonan, all that occurs to me is that "from the mouth comes the overflow of the heart." And perhaps, way back then, Ronald Reagan was writing her speeches.
Mrs. Esopman
She was pretty quick to slam GW. I would guarantee that the left relishes the notion of using her critique of GW's speech against him. Just like they relish using McCain's critiques. Boxer will no doubt say from the floor of the Senate: "even conservative commentators, such as Peggy Noonan, feel that President Bush mentions God too much." Giving ammo to your opponents is a direct result of a violation of Reagan's Eleventh Commandment. If you find such a position inane, your mind needs to be messed with.
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