[harpu]

If you want to read it...that's up to you. But I'm not going to waste the forum's bandwidth.

[Oschisms]

You just did.

[merry10]

she must have watched a different funeral from the rest of us.

[ClearCase_guy]

Peggy always disappoints. I remember when that wasn't the case.

I think she would prefer Jimmy Carter in the White House to George W. Bush. She really hates that man.

[linda_22003]

I get the Opinion Journal email every morning and saw that, and thought, "Wonder what FR is going to think of this....." ;-D

[ozzysmom]

What has President Bush done to her for her to be so "scorned"?
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"When George Bush 41 followed him to the podium, he teased Mr. Lowery in a way that complimented his eloquence. People sometimes marvel at the grace of George H.W. Bush. He is a warm and gracious man, and he's old enough to appreciate the humor in everything. He's old enough to appreciate life. But it is also true that when you attack him or his son from the left he doesn't get mad because in his heart he kinda thinks you're right."

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

There was nothing prissy, nothing sissy about it. A former president, a softly gray-haired and chronically dyspeptic gentleman who seems to have judged the world to be just barely deserving of his presence, pointedly insulted a sitting president who was, in fact, sitting right behind him. The Clintons unveiled their 2008 campaign. A rhyming preacher, one of the old lions, a man of warmth and stature, freely used the occasion to verbally bop the sitting president on the head.

So what? This was the authentic sound of a vibrant democracy doing its thing. It was the exact opposite of the frightened and prissy attitude that if you draw a picture I don't like, I'll have to kill you.

It was: We do free speech here.

That funeral honored us, and the world could learn a lot from watching it. The U.S. government should send all six hours of it throughout the World Wide Web and to every country on earth, because it said more about who we are than any number of decorous U.N. speeches and formal diplomatic declarations

Interesting POV, actually . . .

[DeusExMachina05]

The inevitable descent into senility for Ms. Noonan begins.

[Right_in_Virginia]

It's obvious Ms. Noonan REALLY wanted a job in this administration.

She's so bitter, she cracking.

[Izzy Dunne]

when you attack him [ Bush 41] or his son from the left he doesn't get mad because in his heart he kinda thinks you're right.

Hubris - thy name is Noonan.

[Rudder]

It's kind of a hard thing to define, but the best I can do is to say simply that Noonan has a weird brain.

[Izzy Dunne]

he [BillyJeff] said of the beautiful Coretta that even at age 75 she still had the goods

Classy. Just classy.

[1rudeboy]

I love Peggy's writing, but this is the equivalent of a post-menopausal hot flash. Sorry, Peg.

[Beth528]

A moment for a distinction that must be made. Some have compared Mrs. King's funeral to the Paul Wellstone memorial. It was not like the Wellstone memorial, and you'd have to be as dim and false as Al Franken to say it was. The Wellstone memorial was marked not by joy but anger. It was at moments sour, even dark. There was famous booing.

What Peggy said here was total bull..From what I saw and read those old wind bag democrats were at it just like they were at Paul Wellstons memorial service..Using it for a political rally...And remember that backed fired on them and so will this..The dems don't know when to keep their filthy mouths shut..Stop trying to smooth it over Peggy it was a disaster for the dems once more..

[Jackson57]

In my opinion, Peggy Noonan was a trust advisor during the Reagan administration and she's not in the Bush administration. She's became bitter because she didn't regain her position and has continued to get more bitter.

[Huck]

I totally agree. But then to me Peggy Noonan is a big BARF alert anyway.

[Doc Savage]

Her family keeps dropping her off at a strange faraway Mall but she keeps coming back. Peggy, they're having lime jello tonight at the Rest Home,...don't be late!

[RobFromGa]

I read it first thing this morning, and Noonan has officially jumped the shark on this one...

her comment that 41 knows that the attacks from the moonbats on 43 are not so bad because they are right (meaning deserved) is what got me the most.

and her "I love them" comment about the disgraced, impeached, (alleged) serial rapist, xxx-42 Bubba J. Klintoon and his Enabler-in-Chief Cankles was just the cherry on the top of this steaming pile of Noonan-dung.

[RichInOC]

Peg, as Saint Paul said in another context and might have said in this one, everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Insulting one's fellow guests at a funeral is, as a general rule, not something I happen to find beneficial. No matter who's doing it, no matter why. Having the right to do it doesn't make it right. It was wrong at the Wellstone funeral. It was wrong at Coretta King's funeral. And it would be wrong if (God forbid) a conservative laid into liberals at a conservative's funeral. There are just some places that, in the great war between left and right, ought to be off limits from the battle.

[tallhappy]

What bothers you and others so much about this column?

[PeskyOne]

Peggy Noonan has lost it. Her writing, instead of improving with age, is the pits. Last week's column and this one reveal more about Peggy than she realizes. She obviously does not know the meaning of the words 'respect and dignity'. Coretta Scott King deserved a 'home-going' of respect and dignity....she did not receive it. Jimmy Carter and Joseph Lowery claim to be Christians, but one didn't see Christ in either of them. We saw two aged, bitter, and spiteful men behaving like spoiled brats. The Clinton's, as usual, were their silly, imbecilic selves saying, "Look how cute I am" Ugh!

What has happened to Peggy Noonan? She criticizes the President for doing what anybody with a grain of sense knows is common decency...behaving in a mature and sympathetic manner and honoring Mrs. King. Peggy belongs to the same league as Maureen Dowd....pathetic!