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'The Man From Nowhere' -- What does Barack Obama believe in? (Peggy Noonan)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 15, 2006 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 12/14/2006 11:14:46 PM PST by Zakeet

We are getting very excited. Barack Obama is brilliant, eloquent and fresh. He is "exciting" (David Brooks), "charming" (Bob Schieffer), "my favorite guy" (Oprah Winfrey), has "charisma" (Donna Brazile), and should run now for president (George Will). Our political and media establishments, on the rebound from bad history, are sounding like Marlene Dietrich in her little top hat. Falling in luff again, vot am I to do, vot am I to do, kont hellllllp eet.

Well, down from your tippy toes, establishment.

He is obviously planning to run. This week he was in New Hampshire--rapturous reviews, sold-out fund-raisers--and before that, Iowa. His second book is his second best seller and the biggest-selling nonfiction title in the nation. The intro he taped for "Monday Night Football"--in an Aaron Sorkin-like setting of gleaming desk and important lighting--showed he is an actor who can absorb the script and knows by nature what a camera is. This is a compliment. All the great presidents of the media age, FDR, JFK and Reagan, were great actors of the presidency. (The one non-great president who was their equal in this, Bill Clinton, proved that acting is not enough.)

He has obvious appeal. I asked a Young Democrat college student why he liked him. After all, I said, he has little experience. That's part of what I like, he said. "He's not an insider, he's not just a D.C. politician."

He is uncompromised by a past, it is true. He is also unburdened by a record, unworn by achievement, unwearied by long labors.

What does he believe? What does he stand for? This is, after all, the central question.

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This is a good read by a former Reagan staffer concerning the lack of any substance on the part of Barak, and some of the reasons why this matters.

1 posted on 12/14/2006 11:14:50 PM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
Barack Obama believes in Barack Obama.
2 posted on 12/14/2006 11:18:51 PM PST by Huntress (Proud owner of Norman/Norma, the transsexual attack cat.)
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To: Zakeet
He's a real nowhere man
living in his nowhere land...

The only difference between Obama and Osama is the bs.

3 posted on 12/14/2006 11:20:17 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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To: Zakeet
After all that`s happend, I can`t believe a guy named Hussein Obama is seriously being considered a Pres candidate. Oh man, I need a good stiff drink of kitten.


4 posted on 12/14/2006 11:22:34 PM PST by Screamname (Actors have always hated Republicans, starting with Lincoln.)
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Hmmm, no mention of Mr. Rezko that I could find. . . my temptation was to mention a Freeper name version, Baracketeer Obama. But I won't.. oops!

I am a fair man and here's proof, Hollywood idle Clark Gable had big ears too.

5 posted on 12/14/2006 11:26:17 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Zakeet
Yeah, here we go people only like him because he's slick Willy 2. It doesn't matter that he has no platform. But he talks slick and blows sweet nothings into your liberal/moderate ears.
Remind you of a particular under performing governor of a backwoods state?
6 posted on 12/14/2006 11:32:07 PM PST by miliantnutcase ("If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -ichabod1)
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To: Zakeet
It's not as if we haven't already had a few of the destiny boys.

There you go again Peggy, making me smile.

7 posted on 12/14/2006 11:34:15 PM PST by TChad
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Couldn't barack hussein Obama do a remake of "Dumbo"?


8 posted on 12/14/2006 11:35:01 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Zakeet

I read the whole piece and this was Peggy lite. Ramblings of littleness surrounded by remember when with Ronnie.

Peggy sometimes needs less perfume and more honesty.

Yes , honesty,she knows the rosy wording of talk around is
not how you or I talk on the corner.We make our point.

Lastly, I trust her republicanism but,she like George Will begin to disappoint more than than satisfy. Odd.


9 posted on 12/14/2006 11:35:11 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Zakeet

Osama Obama doesn't have any experience what so ever, militarly or politically for running this country so what of earth are people excited about?


10 posted on 12/14/2006 11:37:10 PM PST by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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To: Huntress

In his heart, he probably believes in Allah.


11 posted on 12/14/2006 11:38:49 PM PST by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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To: furquhart

But, of course, that's why I hope that he runs (and wins the nomination) in 2008. As someone who, in their own small way, spend 2004 smearing Howard Dean and then John Kerry, nothing would be more enjoyable than spending 2008 dicing up the liberals' favorite pretty boy.

In particular, I find it very difficult to believe that the black son of a Moslem father never flirted with Islam. And, if there's evidence, we'll find it - and we'll use it.


12 posted on 12/14/2006 11:41:19 PM PST by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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To: Huntress
Barack Obama believes in Barack Obama

For sure. And he has been seduced by all the media generated adulation.

Watch his crash and burn when they they throw him off the bus and under the tracks.

W.
13 posted on 12/14/2006 11:45:25 PM PST by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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To: Huntress
Be afraid, very afraid of Obama!
14 posted on 12/15/2006 12:37:38 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: Zakeet
Oprah has decided that Barack Obama should be President.

Let Oprah say it; let it be done.

15 posted on 12/15/2006 12:40:40 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: sheik yerbouty
RE: "Dumbo"

About Senator Obama's and Clark Gable's ears.

A joke I remember from decades ago, probably in the 1950s:

Two men are walking along a major city street at night.

One exclaims, "Look! there goes a taxi with its doors open!"

The other guy says, " That's not a taxi, that's Clark Gable!"

One of the most famous lines by a screen writer was inspired by the actor's (Clark Gable) own words: "My ears? Frankly.. I don't give a damn."

16 posted on 12/15/2006 12:44:48 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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RE: Is it possible that a "son of a Moslem father never flirted with Islam"

There's something that I find very strange.

I don't believe that Senator Obama is condemned as an apostate by radical Muslim nut cases, thus no fatwas, but..

Surely they should at least be extremely critical of someone who turned his back on Islam. As far as I know there's nary a word from the extremists. Why? I wonder.

A cursory search found one Islamic site that praises him and virtually claims him for Islam.

17 posted on 12/15/2006 12:53:22 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Zakeet
Reading Noonan is effortless, like that second glass of wine. As to the substance of her piece...would the phrase, "empty suit" be a mischaracterization of Barack Hussein Obama? I think not.
18 posted on 12/15/2006 1:03:40 AM PST by aligncare (Pray for younemies...May Senator Johnson get well)
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To: snarks_when_bored
Oprah has decided that Barack Obama should be President.

But, remember awhile back how the blogosphere Left decided that Oprah should be president? It doesn't take much to get their panties wet on the liberal left.

19 posted on 12/15/2006 1:19:33 AM PST by aligncare (Pray for younemies...May Senator Johnson get well)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

I'm not sure if Islam has a "baptism" or something similar, for that matter. I'd have to look it up.


20 posted on 12/15/2006 2:14:33 AM PST by furquhart (Time for a New Crusade - Deus lo Volt!)
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