ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL

Free Republic, Opinion Journal | 2.10.06 | Mia T

[Mia T]

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[wagglebee]

She did write some INCREDIBLE speeches though!

[Mia T]

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[SiliconValleyGuy]

It's a masterpiece, Mia! Thanks.

If you don't understand that Mrs. Clinton was rehearsing her 2008 announcement speech, then you are a child and must go home and have a nice cup of cocoa.

I love it. ;)

[Mia T]

Pure metaphor works in that format. ;)

[HateBill]

Peggy is in the process of undergoing "Huffingtonization."

[Darkwolf377]

I thought Noonan's article was right on until she got to the Clintons, and then it was like hitting a speedbump. "There's a woman in there," was more to me like Billy saying "Now I'm here to tell YOU PEOPLE what you should REALLY be talkin' about!"

[Mia T]

thx :)

[mkjessup]

She did write some INCREDIBLE speeches though!

Yes, unfortunately she fell into the trap of believing that she, and she alone was capable of capturing the "essence" of whatever the President was, is, or should be expressing in his spoken words.

Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.

[spectre]

Excellent, Mia.

"clinton's hands are grotesquely large, clawlike, threatening. They are not the elegant hands of, say, a surgeon or a pianist. They are the viselike hands of a rapist".

Brillant..

sw

[Captain Peter Blood]

Peggy has somehow changed and not for the better. I saw snippets of that funeral and it was a farce.
Of course what else do Democrats do at nice big funerals, they make it political and in the end Bush Bashing.
Pretty clear to all but a few including Peggy.
Amazing how we can put our heroes on pedestals but forget they like most of us have feet of clay and the Kings were no exception.

[Mia T]

thx sw :)

[x]

Peggy's an enthusiast. She wants to get excited about things, and has a cheerleader's love for whoever the star player is. It served her well in the 1980s, but that kind of enthusiasm can affect one's judgment. I guess it's an occupational hazard for speech writers.

That sort of misplaced love is also what you see at Presidential funerals. Peggy's already started to see Clinton more as a representative of her own younger years and "the good old days" and less as they politician he actually was.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Bump!

[Revolting cat!]

Stockholm syndrome? If I can't beat them, I'll join them? An application for a White House speechwriter job in 2009?

Reading this article at 6AM this morning made me sick. She's always been touchy feely, but this is pouring a gallon of maple syrup on your head. And maple syrup's Canadian, too!

[garyhope]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hillary Clinton is the absolute end of the world. Death and evil personified.

[Mia T]

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[PGalt]

Great analysis Mia T.

The use / mis-use of metaphor and analogy is a psychological uncoupling from reality, a make-believe world, an irrational world.