[LS]

Look, if you want to see how the "middle" is going to view this, all you have to do is look at Peggy Noonan's interview today on ABC or NBC---don't know which. She was basically saying this speech was a success. Noonan. Now, she has her "softer" side, but if SHE is saying this, you know the guilty suburban whites are going, "Can't we all just get along?"

Glenn Beck, somewhat the same, saying that this came out way too soon, and that by election time, of O is the candidate, it will be down to the level of "everyone has a crazy friend" and that's the end of the story.

My campus is, certainly, much more sensible and "conservative" than most. You would never have speakers on EITHER side interrupted like you do at Columbia or Cornell. They might get some tough questions (speeches), but never rudeness. I'm quite proud of my university for its civility.

[wardaddy]

Peggy Noonan is pretty soft....I coulda squeezed her myself given the chance a few years back.

She’s right sometimes but a bit too beltway.