I won't be on the computer much today and I wanted to make sure you see this. I think Peggy has done herself in with this column.
#7 ..That little lecture by Peggy is very telling.
If she had her problems with this speech, she should have told Bush in private (she has the connections) rather than try to undermine him in such a public way.
She has to know that our enemies are looking for reasons to doubt that the President means what he says. She has given them comfort.
And, hopefully, the jailed dissidents that Bush was talking to do not get the WSJ. They need to believe.
Okay! Thanks Jane. I did, BTW, when going thru my tape of the I-Day speech, come across Peggy's remarks on Fox directly after the speech, listened carefully & found the whole affair puzzling, to say the least!!
That was my considered response to her first column on the inaugural speech. It didn't read like a hasty reaction or a careless mistake or a fit of uncontrolled pique. It read like a deliberate and malicious attack calculated to give ammunition to Bush's enemies.
No doubt she has seen the critical responses, including Jody Bottum's excellent piece. Now she comes back with this. It's nervous, defensive, and not very well written, but it confirms that she has joined the self-annointed "Realpolitik" crowd.
It's too bad, because although she's written an occasional bad piece before, I've always been one of her admirers. Come to think of it, I used to admire Bill Kristol, too.