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The Man From Nowhere
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 16, 2006 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 12/16/2006 9:03:35 AM PST by Man of the Right

Peggy cites the pop-culture glitterai who are ga-ga over Obama; opines on his book; and concludes he's a narcissist. Caveat Emptor.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; airhead; blamimbo; crackhead; democrat; druggie; dumbo; election; hugeears; obama
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Nothing good can come when the left falls in love with an unknown politician. Remember Jimmy Carter? Does anyone know anything about this guy?
1 posted on 12/16/2006 9:03:46 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Man of the Right

BFLR.


2 posted on 12/16/2006 9:05:55 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Man of the Right
Here is another link if people have trouble getting into the first one.
The Man From Nowhere
3 posted on 12/16/2006 9:08:35 AM PST by mhx
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To: Man of the Right

What is a TME man?


4 posted on 12/16/2006 9:09:55 AM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Man of the Right

The next step will be to play the race card.I can hear it all now-"He's qualified,but you won't vote for him because he's a black man."Who even knows who this guy really is?


5 posted on 12/16/2006 9:15:10 AM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Man of the Right

The orgy of idiotic media pandering (with Idiot One, George Will, now joining the pack), is enough to cause rivers of vomit the flow.


6 posted on 12/16/2006 9:16:00 AM PST by samtheman (The Democrats are the DhimmiGods of the New Religion of PC)
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To: mhx

Thanks.


7 posted on 12/16/2006 9:16:42 AM PST by Man of the Right
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Once again, some good points, but Peggy has totally lost it. The clear implication, though not quite stated, is that Bush is as bad a president as clinton, and now we're in for a third crazy president.

Good grief. Bush has his faults, but compared to clinton? Compared to Lhama Hussein Obama?

Peggy, I hardly knew ye.


8 posted on 12/16/2006 9:17:40 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Man of the Right

Caveat Emptor should be his campaign slogan. What has he ever accomplished?


9 posted on 12/16/2006 9:17:53 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: Man of the Right
Closet mooselimb
10 posted on 12/16/2006 9:18:08 AM PST by spokeshave (The Democrat Party stands for open treason in a time of war.)
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To: samtheman

Obama serves their purpose now. He is a black, muslim-sounding name (although reportedly Christian). It goes directly to the belief that the liberal scumedia believes America is Islamophobic now.

A few years ago, when in danger of putting a conservative at the head of the GOP (Bush), they clamored for McCain. Now that McCain is a possible frontrunner, watch them attempt to sack McCain.


11 posted on 12/16/2006 9:20:00 AM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: Farmer Dean

The Dems love to nominate fellow glitterai:
Jaahn Kerry
Bubba
Scoopy in the Abrams tank
Jeemy
John F. Charisma Kennedy


12 posted on 12/16/2006 9:20:28 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Man of the Right
I think that he is really Ross Perot with some reconstruction.
13 posted on 12/16/2006 9:21:59 AM PST by etradervic (Rumsfeld - the sack heard around the world)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

I'm half blind. Radiation therpay fried my eyes.


14 posted on 12/16/2006 9:23:25 AM PST by Man of the Right
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Peggy's bottom line:
It seems to me that our political history has been marked the past 10 years by lurches, reactions and swerves, and I wonder if historians will see the era that started in the mid-'90s as The Long Freakout. First the Clinton era left more than half the country appalled--deeply appalled, and ashamed--by its series of political, financial and personal scandals. I doubt the Democratic Party will ever fully understand the damage done in those days. In reaction the Republican Party lurched in its presidential decision toward a relatively untested (five years in the governor's office, before that very little) man whom party professionals chose, essentially, because "He can win" and the base endorsed because he seemed the opposite of Bill Clinton. The 2000 election was a national trauma, and I'm not sure Republicans fully understand what it did to half the Democrats in the country to think the election was stolen, or finagled, or arranged by unseen powers. Then 9/11. Now we have had six years of high drama and deep division, and again a new savior seems to beckon, one who is so clearly Not Bush.

We'll see what Sen. Obama has, what he is, what he becomes. But right now he seems part of a pattern of lurches and swerves--the man from nowhere, of whom little is known, who will bring us out of the mess. His sudden rise and wild popularity seem more symptom than solution. And I wonder if historians will call this chapter in their future histories of the modern era not "A Decision Is Made" but "The Freakout Continues."

I'd say she sees this pretty clearly.

Now you BushBots be sure and flame the Hell outta me. (Ohhh, Peggy wrote unkind words about President Bush!) As if I care!

15 posted on 12/16/2006 9:23:34 AM PST by upchuck (What's done is done. And if we don't get our stuff together, it'll be done to us again in 2008!)
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To: Man of the Right
Whenever I see Obama, I get the strangest sensation that the number, "666", is almost visible -- faintly emblazoned across his forehead...

Must be the "charisma" bit...

16 posted on 12/16/2006 9:23:53 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Farmer Dean

We have the antidote for this poison: Condi.


17 posted on 12/16/2006 9:24:09 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: samtheman

George spent too many years cavorting with Sam Donaldson.


18 posted on 12/16/2006 9:25:04 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: Cicero

Sometimes Peggy loses her balance trying to be fair.

Dubya was dealt the worst hand since FDR. He'll be remembered for a Reaganesque performance in the two years following 9-11.


19 posted on 12/16/2006 9:27:30 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: 3AngelaD

He got elected to the Senate from Illinois, a staqte where Richard J. Daley Sr. is still voting early and often.


20 posted on 12/16/2006 9:28:52 AM PST by Man of the Right
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