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Normal Service Resumed (Let's Tell Peggy What We Think)
The Wall St. Journal ^ | 2/4/05 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 02/03/2005 10:35:59 PM PST by paulat

Normal Service Resumed The George Bush the nation re-elected is back.

Friday, February 4, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

George Bush finally began his second term on Wednesday night with an address that marked the return of the Bush of the stump, the Bush who was re-elected president three months ago and whom the nation knows well. His State of the Union address underscored that he meant what he said when he ran: Efforts to move against junk lawsuits, protect marriage and reform Social Security are all on the table. America continues as a friend of liberty throughout the world. The speech was marked by an air not of insistence but of persuasion. George Bush made it clear he does not intend to cooperate with the tradition whereby second terms are all anticlimax enlivened by scandal. He will not be at the mercy of history. He means to continue doing big things. This was the plainspoken Bush of old.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; noonan; sotu; term2
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To: paulat

BTTT


21 posted on 02/03/2005 11:07:04 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: quidnunc
more specific and less messianic

Peggy thinks that references to God are "messianic". She seems obsessed with the President's unabashed, unapologetic Christianity, and she's apparently got a real problem with it. Her "Too Much God" column about the President's Inaugural speech was eye-popping.

22 posted on 02/03/2005 11:07:14 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Fenris6
..and the Noonan-Buzzards begin to roost. Like clockwork.

She thinks freedom for everyone on Earth is too big a goal. You have purple-fingered people on your page...how can you support her opinion????

23 posted on 02/03/2005 11:08:10 PM PST by paulat
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To: quidnunc

Nobody with more than 3 working brains cells takes her or her columns seriously.


24 posted on 02/03/2005 11:08:18 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fenris6

Give it a rest.


25 posted on 02/03/2005 11:10:18 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: paulat

"You have purple-fingered people on your page...how can you support her opinion????"

I didn't. And I find this article to be a sleeper - a mere summation. But I'm a fan, and amused that the spite directed here against her seems to have very little to do with her articles.


26 posted on 02/03/2005 11:11:37 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Lancey Howard
Peggy thinks that references to God are "messianic". She seems obsessed with the President's unabashed, unapologetic Christianity, and she's apparently got a real problem with it. Her "Too Much God" column about the President's Inaugural speech was eye-popping.

What a great comment...what is "messianic" about all those beautiful purple fingers??

These people are deciding FOR THEMSELVES what they want their lives to be.

27 posted on 02/03/2005 11:12:04 PM PST by paulat
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To: Howlin

Hey, Howlin...are we on the same side, for once? ;)


28 posted on 02/03/2005 11:13:38 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

Are we on different sides somewhere?


29 posted on 02/03/2005 11:14:42 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: Fenris6

And like clockwork,her drooling sycophants show up to hurl personal attacks at those who don't worship at perky Peggy's feet (all the way up to her eyeballs) of clay.


30 posted on 02/03/2005 11:14:56 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I haven't clicked over to read this yet. It's 2:15 AM. Is this going to get me mad?


31 posted on 02/03/2005 11:15:09 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple

"Is this going to get me mad?"

Not really. Like I said, its a sleeper, so we're going to refight the last 4 threads re last weeks mess. Yawn


32 posted on 02/03/2005 11:17:22 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Miss Marple

It will make you mad because it won't make you mad, if you get my drift.


33 posted on 02/03/2005 11:17:29 PM PST by Howlin (It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
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To: okie01

Exactly. She was flat wrong on the inaugural, but people can have different opinions and still be on the same team.


34 posted on 02/03/2005 11:18:15 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: Miss Marple

Just a little bit.


35 posted on 02/03/2005 11:20:08 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

But we'll find things to nitpick and grow outraged at /s


36 posted on 02/03/2005 11:20:50 PM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Fenris6
Nobody asked you;MYOB! I was asked the query.
37 posted on 02/03/2005 11:21:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: rwfromkansas
And she berated the president,yet again,on the Inaugural speech in this hackneyed article.So no,this isn't just a wee little "disagreement"....Peggy's beating a dead horse.
38 posted on 02/03/2005 11:23:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Fenris6

Yes,that's exactly what your preecious Peggy did in this article. How lovely of you to admit that. :-)


39 posted on 02/03/2005 11:24:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Did you read the entire article? It doesn't look like it,from your reply.

Yes, I did. What did I miss?

40 posted on 02/03/2005 11:24:54 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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