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I had finally settled into..long, busy day, tiredness..unfortunate column dashed off ,colored with a bit of speech envy..I was puzzled but willing to say "we all make mistakes"

Her "rebuttal" to criticism column has caused me to reexamine my opinion. Her garbage can statement gives me great pause...She did not take responsibility for the title or her drenched in God remarks either.
She has criticisized the president before in her columns..fine..

She is not "getting it" and I am getting a whiff of superiority complex.

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It's easy to screw one up, I'll grant her that one too, but I can see where you'd sense the Great White Goddess Complex rearing it's ugly head. Also, what a lot of the current war's opponents reflexively and doggedly don't get, is that we aren't just doing the Iraquis a favor here.

To use the Peggy Noonan analogy, the garbage may be trashing up somebody else's herbaceous borders, but the flies, maggots and insects that feed off it can spread the pathogens to your children as well. (eg. 9-11)

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> She is not "getting it" and I am getting a whiff of superiority complex.

You are absolutely right. Peggy's not getting the point, and in her frustration she sprews forth this arrogant bilge. And yet, it's not entirely her fault. The President has got to make his case, and he's got to make it over and over, so that Peggy and all the rest will understand.