[Mia T]

ping

[wagglebee]

She did write some INCREDIBLE speeches though!

[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. ;)

[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!"

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Wolverine]

bump

[Left_Coast_Conservative]

Peggy missed it in this article. The funeral was a political rally. She even tried to make Jimmah Carter likeable. I used to like her but something has happened to her. She worked on President Bush's campaign and after the election I noticed a bitterness toward his administration.

[AndyJackson]

I am sorry, but you need a lesson in enemy identification.

I know I am taking on a FR icon, but since you have the gall to take on Peggy, who is one of the finest and most astute political writiters in the country, I am going to be very blunt. I have never understood a single thing in your verbal diarrhea. I can read and learn from Peggy all day long. Even where I disagree with her it is instructive. You, on the other hand, stretch whatever you are trying to say over pages and pages of disgusting graphics and I have never understood what you point is.

I know you have a fan club here. I, however, am not a member of it, and will not be, until you figure out how to come to a point that anyone who is not amused and impressed by adolescently obscene pictures can understand.

In other words, what are you trying to say? I haven't a clue.

[Doc Savage]

Noonan!!! Shut the F Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Faith]

They are setting up false equivalences with heroic figures. - Mia T

Yep. Remember when Sir William likened himself to David in the Bible? Great work once again, Mia T. You are a national treasure.

[Prost1]

Peggy Noonan is a writer in search of an adjective.

[Incorrigible]

You're so good! And what a long memory!

[MEG33]

Great, Mia T..I seem to ask myself far too often..what on earth has happened to Peggy N.?

[mtntop3]

Peggy Noonan, a good woman, has gradually and unfortunately become a narcissist of her own observations and words. She has come to like the sound of herself too much. May she soon rediscover the original Peggy N.