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A Sourpuss? Moi? [Peggy Noonan responds to her last column on the inaugural speech]
WSJ - Opinion Journal ^ | 1-26-05 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 01/27/2005 2:08:34 AM PST by bellevuesbest

I have been called old, jaded, a sourpuss. Far worse, I have been called French. A response is in order.

You know the dispute. Last week I slammed the president's inaugural address. I was not alone, but I came down hard, early and in one of the most highly read editorial pages in America. Bill Buckley and David Frum also had critical reactions. Bill Safire on the other hand called it one of the best second inaugurals ever, and commentators from right and left (Bill Kristol, E.J. Dionne) found much to praise and ponder. (To my mind the best response to the inaugural was the grave, passionate essay of Mark Helprin.) So herewith some questions and answers:

A week later, do I stand by my views?

Yes. If I wrote it today I wouldn't be softer, but harder.

(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: inauguraladdress; noonan; peggydowd; peggynoonan; sourpuss
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator

To: Random Excess
Thank you for you're critical analysis of my grammer and spelling. It will go far in making me a better person.

***************

Not for long.


62 posted on 01/27/2005 3:54:49 AM PST by trisham
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To: Random Excess
Its later than you think.

Only if you've been up all night.

63 posted on 01/27/2005 3:56:26 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
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To: Random Excess

"Moderation, forgiveness and tolerance are the family values"

Tolerance is a family value?

I think banning you was a family value.


64 posted on 01/27/2005 3:57:19 AM PST by Preachin' (Democrats know that they can never run on their real agenda.)
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To: Random Excess

People come here from DU and say things like you are saying and they always misspell words. Maybe I jumped the gun a little and shouldn't have critisized your spelling but you are taking a very liberal stance here. Exactly the stance DU takes but with enough conservativism thrown in for good measure.


65 posted on 01/27/2005 3:57:51 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: Random Excess
I thank God that we control the Senate and the House and can keep this loose cannon under control during his periods of delusion.

Huh? If that's your goal, then you should wish for the Dems to regain Congress, since that'll REALLY keep him in check. Yeesh.
66 posted on 01/27/2005 3:58:26 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: Preachin'
but this freedom of speech thing is quite nice.

She can say whatever she wants but it dont make it so

67 posted on 01/27/2005 4:00:22 AM PST by woofie (Proudly posting inane comments since 1998)
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To: mariabush

I pinged you as he had directed that pompous lecture to you..I thought you might enjoy my bursting his bubble.


68 posted on 01/27/2005 4:00:31 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Preachin'

Too much doofen of zee boofen, ja?


69 posted on 01/27/2005 4:00:38 AM PST by JusPasenThru (http://giinthesky.blogspot.com/)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

What was the context of the banned comment? I missed it.


70 posted on 01/27/2005 4:00:59 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: MEG33
But cleaning up the garbage is not pretty. And it sometimes leaves the neighborhood in an even bigger mess than it had been."

Dear Peggy: I guess you must have a maid, nowdays, and you have become out of touch with what we ordinary folks know.

If garbage is not disposed of, the pile grows and vermin spread disease.

71 posted on 01/27/2005 4:01:16 AM PST by syriacus (The whole World will be watching the Rice SMEARINGS as Condi is blamed for every "error" since 2001)
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To: bellevuesbest

Who cares what this old, jaded, sourpuss with the affected voice has to say, anyway? It seems she wants attention now.


72 posted on 01/27/2005 4:03:47 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Random Excess
There is no place here for your brand of liberal sarcasm.

You are obviously new around here. There's plenty of room for sarcasm, trust me.

As for my opinion on the speech,

"Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven".

The will of God is freedom for all of humanity-- which is only found in Christ. The question remains as to how we go about facilitating it. I think the President expressed an accurate goal, but the finer points of his foreign policy have yet to prove themselves. We will see a big part of the proof after Jan 30 in Iraq.

73 posted on 01/27/2005 4:05:06 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Go Howard Go!)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
I fear she is lost. She has shown by this recent column that she cannot take criticism well. She doesn't know it yet, but she is now on the wrong side of history.

I wonder if she is jealous of Condi?

74 posted on 01/27/2005 4:05:10 AM PST by syriacus (The whole World will be watching the Rice SMEARINGS as Condi is blamed for every "error" since 2001)
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To: syriacus

Dear Peggy: I guess you must have a maid, nowdays, and you have become out of touch with what we ordinary folks know. You are right. Anyone who has ever remodeled their house knows what a mess it is until all the work is done and the mess is all cleaned up and disposed of and you are left with a beautiful useful new space that once was wasted space. Liberals don't see the new space. All they see is the mess.


75 posted on 01/27/2005 4:05:55 AM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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Post #54
76 posted on 01/27/2005 4:08:16 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
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To: Random Excess

evidently we had way too much Random Excess


77 posted on 01/27/2005 4:09:43 AM PST by woofie (Proudly posting inane comments since 1998)
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To: bellevuesbest
Peggy has guts and this is a very good article.
78 posted on 01/27/2005 4:14:27 AM PST by independentmind (Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité --NOT)
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To: syriacus

She is not listening.

I preferred to conclude she just had an attack of speech envy .

She deprived me of allowing her that as an excuse.

.


79 posted on 01/27/2005 4:14:28 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: syriacus

Peggy was lavish in her criticism of the President's speech. She's smarting from criticism of her own remarks about it. Words do have meaning, Peggy, as you have said, but your words did not convince me that President Bush's words about "liberty and justice for all" are a bad thing to wish for others.


80 posted on 01/27/2005 4:14:36 AM PST by Carolinamom
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