I just don't know why she's doing this. Why is she bashing on Bush for calling for more freedom? What's wrong with laying down a marker for liberty? This is where we are going, what is good for America and the world. We may not be perfect or consistent, but this is our destination, our goal.
And then the successful Iraqi elections came along -- and really proved her wrong.
I'm not one for throwing Peggy overboard over one (in my view) wrong analysis.
That said, this whole elegant tone thing by Peggy gives me the same cold shoulder I get when I realize that true blue staters might as well think I am from Mars. IOW, there's a subtle condescension here. There's a failure to grasp how the average person out there, the person who loves this country and, yes, loves George W. Bush, gets it.
I just feel like Peggy didn't get it. And she doesn't get it that we DO get it. As if it's impossible for us to get it if she doesn't get it.
I get the feeling that what she calls overreaching and embarrassing to her in this speech is the very stuff that embarrasses all the elites about us red state 'Mericans.
Sort of sad for Peggy.