Posted on 01/27/2005 9:39:48 AM PST by quidnunc
Michael Gerson has served George W. Bush magnificently as chief speechwriter, during both the 2000 campaign and the first term in office. His departure would have prompted us to declare his enormous talents "indispensable" to this president but for the two pieces of good news that accompanied its announcement. The first is that Gerson will remain at the White House in a new senior position. The second is that he will be replaced as chief speechwriter by another superb talent: our former colleague William McGurn, who was NR's Washington editor for three years in the early 1990s. We lost McGurn to the call of the Orient: He worked in Hong Kong for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Wall Street Journal, but found time to contribute regularly to NR. He came back to the U.S. to become the chief editorial writer for the Journal. President Bush's public voice remains in the best possible hands.
>> I'll hazard a guess that if Bush did not share your faith, if he was Catholic, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim and still wrapping himself in "righteous" imagery, you'd be raising holy hell. <<
I'm a Catholic and have no problem with anyone of faith. Ask Alouette. I don't feel that anyone of faith is "wrapping himself in 'righteous' imagery". They are speaking how they feel, you seem pretty afraid of that. Hmmmmm.
>>You don't want any homosexual to feel safe in public or even in private. If I asked you whether you would support a "round up" and re-education of homosexuals, with exile for those who resisted...<<
Wow, you are angry. And presuming too much.
I don't want homosexuals in my face, including my own sister and I sure don't want them in the faces of my seven or four year old. Keep your sex in the bedroom and I will keep my faith in my heart.
Lighten up. You'll feel better.
Hallelujah!!!
I like it! Nothing much against Peggy, but these times require Big and deep thinkers that can write and help a President put his thoughts into words.
Peggy might be good on "big themes" but this guy sounds like he could also write policy, not just write about it.
>>Not to start a battle here, but this is an outrageous statement. I know very few Christians outside the fringe who believe the above statement. And by the way, I am not Catholic.<<
Thanks!
But you haven't been on the FR Religion board when "Mary", "Pope" or "Priest" are mentioned in the title of the thread. People feel that it is fair game to "minister" to us. It gets real old.
See my tagline. A couple of us are real tired of being the target of the fringe.
Jesus is not a religion
Most certainly in hope of some future business.
Pataki did fundraising for W. too hoping he might get a big appointment....ain't gonna happen. Bush is his own man and will hire the best people around.
Is this based on some concrete info which you have?
If there is any bitterness perhaps it is that having taken a huge pay hit to work for gratis she found that her input and suggestions were not taken seriously. Here you have a very experienced writer, who has essentially because of the Reagan funeral, wanted to get involved again and make a contribution, probably found that The Powers That Be just were not interested in her ideas or what she had to say. Would not be the first time this has happened to someone.
That there is bitterness is self-evident.
If the Bush administration was not interested in her views, it was probably that they were diametrically opposed to those of Biush and his team.
Reading her recent writings leaves me with the impression that she sees herself not so much as a wordsmith than as a political theoritician.
The problem is that she apparently belongs to the 'realist' foreign-policy school which sees world stability as the sine qua non of foreign relations.
The Bush administration does not share her opinions, so it's not surprising that they would not defer to her.
Guess I'm a little "slow" on the intake with this comment.
Would you feel this way if Bush were of some other denomination, and all of his talk abotu God were about Ba'al or Allah?
The fact IS, he's a born again Christian. I identify with him completely in this respect, therefore, I understand completely why he acknowledges a higher power in his life. President Bush, IMHO, is not being "religious." He identifies himself with an entity that is as every bit as real to him as, say..., his wife and daughters. If the man's conviction is to acknowledge his faith in the public square, he'd rather face the wrath of his critics here on earth than to "deny" his Heavenly Father.
She said in some intervieviews I saw that she wasn't interested in going to D.C. that she was just doing the volunteer thing because she wanted to.
You know we can have all this endless speculation about why she wrote this or that but the bottom line is that most of what is being said on this thread about her is probably way off the mark.
The fact IS, my friend, you DON't get it...
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. ~ Matthew 6:6
But I guess you guys know more about the Bible than that Matthew dude. ;)
"Would you feel this way if Bush were of some other denomination, and all of his talk abotu God were about Ba'al or Allah?"
"The fact IS, he's a born again Christian. I identify with him completely in this respect, therefore, I understand completely why he acknowledges a higher power in his life. President Bush, IMHO, is not being "religious." He identifies himself with an entity that is as every bit as real to him as, say..., his wife and daughters. If the man's conviction is to acknowledge his faith in the public square, he'd rather face the wrath of his critics here on earth than to "deny" his Heavenly Father.
I never once asked for Bush to deny anything, while you have declined to answer the simple question:Would you feel this way if Bush were of some other denomination, and all of his talk abotu God were about Ba'al or Allah?
>>The fact IS, my friend, you DON't get it...<<
I think this poster has bowed out on us!
(BTW, you're right.)
I don't think anyone said otherwise. And...?
Oh, don't be silly. Peggy Noonan is not like that. She makes a good living and does not need all the DC cattiness and nastiness you have just displayed here.
Yes, the difference being that isn't the only thing I've said on the subject. Unlike your picky little nothing of a post.
But it is evident from her writings that she IS like that.
…and does not need all the DC cattiness and nastiness you have just displayed here.
And what about the cattiness and nastiness she has displayed towards Bush an d hios team and against her former co-workers in the Reagan and Bush (41) administrations?
Is she exempt?
Here are a few articles by McGurn, who is a serious Catholic; judge for yourself how "anti-Christian and pro-abortion" and uninterested in social issues he is.
How much of a pacifist is the pope?
the first Bob Casey lecture in the Catholic archdiocese of Denver.
Population and the Wealth of Nations
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Voucher
His last months at the WSJ were spent writing article after article on the Saudi child abductions. I didn't include those links (see Google), but his passion for the issue raises him in my esteem. McGurn, an economist, has also written a great deal about the relationship of capitalism to morality and religion, which may be the real reason Bush brought him on board for a term in which he is going to have to explain a lot of economic reality to the American people in simple terms.
And to think I was going to ask Peggy to marry me. Not now!LOL
Ditto.
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