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'I Hope She Drowns'- The implosion of the Democratic Party
Opinion Journal Wall Street Journal ^
| 2/2/06
| PEGGY NOONAN
Posted on 02/02/2006 6:11:22 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: Mulch
I wonder about Pres. Bush's comments about Clinton occasionally, but I really think he is just being civil and polite.
When he ignores all the horrid comments and insults levied against him on a daily basis, it shows what a gentleman he is - the ability to rise above that sort of thing is something I wish I could cultivate myself.
To: areafiftyone
The president's State of the Union Address will be little noted and not long remembered.Whatever Peggy, I think you will be litte noted and not long remembered.
To: txrangerette
My guess is, she did not get a gig at the White House at a time when she wanted one.Bingo!
To: areafiftyone
There was only one unforgettable moment, and that was in a cutaway shot, of Hillary Clinton, who simply must do something about her face. ![Hillary_Clinton](http://www.hilltruth.com/images/hillary_sotu.jpg)
That's an understatement!
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:37:34 AM PST
by
PilloryHillary
(Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
To: RebelBanker
Why does Peggy Noonan have such a hatred for President Bush? It's not hate to refuse to wear kneepads.
To: RexBeach
You're right about Biden, he's right up there with J. F'ing Kerry in that department. I used to watch Imus but I have to turn him off so much, after he has these bozos on, both of whom just love to hear themselves so much that they don't know when to shut up.
Between them and his other guests, such as Carville, Begala, Frank Rich, etc etc. on I can't stand it anymore (I gave him a wide berth because of his trashing of Bill Clinton, in person, but he's used up that ticket.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:37:58 AM PST
by
poncho67
To: areafiftyone
Is Peggy upset because she did not get to write the speech?
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:38:29 AM PST
by
ExpatGator
(Progressivism: A polyp on the colon politic.)
To: maggief
Hold video for the NY election campaign. "Who do you trust with the defense of your country?"
NY deserves who they elect. I, however, will not accept this contemptuous low life as someone who is in charge of anything...including my trash pick up.
To: areafiftyone
I thought it was a wonderful speech. Uplifting, affirming, connecting with what most Americans think and feel.
I wonder what's happened to Peggy that she has become so far removed from the people that she thinks this speech wouldn't connect with us?
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:39:23 AM PST
by
McGavin999
(If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
To: areafiftyone
True enough. My mom's 54, and looks about her age. My dad is also 54 but looks about 45. I'm 28, and with a baseball cap on I can pass for 18, but without it I could say I'm 35 and people would also believe me with the shaved head/goatee look I am sporting.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:39:44 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
To: GOPJ
Years of poor public-schooling have produced history-denied, skulls-full-of-mush... young socialists... programmed to embrace some utopian, nanny-state.
One 'whiff' of the stuff on DailyKos proves it.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:39:57 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: PilloryHillary
There was only one unforgettable moment, and that was in a cutaway shot, of Hillary Clinton, who simply must do something about her face. When the president joked that two people his father loves are turning 60 this year, himself and Bill Clinton--why does he think constant references to that relationship work for him?--it was Mrs. Clinton's job to look mildly amused, or pleasant, or relatively friendly, or nonhostile. Mrs. Clinton has two natural looks, the first being a dull and sated cynicism, the second the bright-eyed throaty chuckler who greets visiting rubes from Utica. The camera caught the first; by the time she realized she was the shot, she apparently didn't feel she could morph into the second. This canniest of politicians still cannot fake benignity.That whole paragraph was good!!! Looking "mildly amused" = The Queen
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:40:00 AM PST
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: RockinRight
Sorry Peggy, you're wrong on this one. While Bush's speech wasn't exactly oratory perfection, I thought it made the point well. And I didn't get the impression it was "pre 9/11" at all.Peggy was observing that the way the Congress was responding to the speech was "pre 9/11," not the speech itself.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:40:19 AM PST
by
whd23
Comment #54 Removed by Moderator
To: G.Mason
" ... If you believe, as he does, that the No. 1 priority for the American government at this point in history is to lead an international movement for political democracy, and if you believe, as he truly seems to, that political democracy is in and of itself a certain bringer of world-wide peace, than [?] this speech was for you.""It is, and I do."
"No. 1"?? Since when??
The No. 1 priority for the American government is to maintain security, liberty and opportunity for it's own citizenry and interests -- always has been.
Any "nation building" or "spreading democracy" should be done with extreme prejudice based on humanitarian and security factors and some kind of consensus.
To: areafiftyone
I hate to be so negative, but the republicans are not far behind.
The world is moving more and more left each day...
To: poncho67
Quite right.
I no longer watch nor listen to Don Imus. His program has turned into a forum for lots of folks who do not like America, and are anxious to tell everyone why our nation is always incorrect in everything it does.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:42:55 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: RockinRight
I looked up her bio (born in 1950).
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Are you sure about that? She graduated from college in 1969. I think she was born in 1947. Can't she even tell the truth about her age?
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:43:27 AM PST
by
maica
(We are fighting the War for the Free World. Democrats and the media are not on our side.)
To: Bahbah
Peggy longs for the days when she was a young hottie and important... She's still a hottie in my book, but then again I'm as far away from being young as she is.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:44:25 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: areafiftyone
Or as he put it, he had, innocent that he is, thought it "unthinkable" that "even the sleaziest producers" would "exploit any aspect of a nightmare that the nation had witnessed in horror." I'll bet he has a lot to say about the Toles cartoon then. We are not supposed to have heroes that they don't give us. We are stupid, emotional, incapable of knowing our own minds and hearts. We don't get to say what should be historic, we are just dumb idiots, like our leader, easily moved by stupid things like love of country, admiration for courage, faith, family, friends.
Peggy is a geat writer, tho, and I think her issues with W come from her perspective as a speech writer. I like to think of her as Modo on estrogen. She has a lot of cat in her, and a depth thats Modo lacks, which make her scratches deep and more lethal. IMHO.
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