[drellberg]

Noonan is a good friend of a good friend. She takes risks as a writer, I believe. Sometimes she resonates; often she misses wildly. I post this because I fly a lot. I mean a lot. I witness the opposite of what she conveys. I see people day in, day out enduring this nonsense with the utmost patience and understanding. It is a small price to pay for all of the values that as a nation we hold dear.

I love our President, who takes nothing but grief and yet who has sheparded this country through some difficult and dangerous times. Anyone with an objective mind and doubts about his successes should go read Kagan's most recent article in the Weekly Standard on where we stand in Iraq. I love our President. I love our President. He takes nothing but grief, and yet he is perhaps the greatest man I have seen in my 50 years of life. May God bless him and keep him, and make his face to shine upon him and bring him peace.

[fifthestate]

yes I agree...sometimes he irritates me beyond belief but I’m not sure who I would rather be President at this time

[outofstyle]

Noonan is a good friend of a good friend.

I did not read this article. However; what's up with Peggy Noonan? Maybe it's me, but she seems to be drifting to the left along with the entire country. She appears to fawn over Obama.

[acapesket]

Peggy Noonan has a stinger in her behind.
Who cares where it came from?
She has become an unimportant screeching witch who babbles nonsense.
She is beyond compassion.
Somebody pissed her off and she’s gone beyond.

[buridan]

For a really amusing attorney’s blog on airport security, see:

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/the_airline_scr.html

[Copernicus]

With all due respect, President Bush IS responsible for the state of affairs at Gate 14. I applaud Noonan for the courage to speak out about it.

There was, and is, absolutely no reason for the entire country to jump up on a table with their collective skirts wrapped around their ears shrieking "mouse" because a handful of terrorists had the pluck to use BOXCUTTERS to blow up a billion dollars of prime New York real estate.

This government has gone completely feral and it needs to stop.

I have said it before and I will cheerfully repeat it here:

Emotion based Conservatism is as destructive to Liberty and a Representative Constitutional Republic as emotion based Liberalism.

Best regards,

[jazusamo]

Good column and an appropriate title.

[hosepipe]

Bush will probably go down as a hero of the democrat party.. since he single handily fractured the republican to an unredeemed mess.. Even RINOs are beginning to see it..

RINOs are normally blind as bats.. but some of them see that Bush chases his tail.. AND CATCHES IT.. Wonder if he always was a MOLE.. Because his domestic espionage matchs the democrats.. Globalist, BIG government, socialism..

[denydenydeny]

Yes, I thought this was a Hillary thread when I saw the title.

But when I saw that Arianna Noonan had written it, I knew she’d much prefer attacking the president than any Democrat.

[Doctor Don]

I heard Peggy Noonan when she spoke in Oklahoma City on Thursday night. I agree with everything in her article. She is a very wise lady!

[PghBaldy]

If Bush truly cared about the security of this country, he wouldn’t have allowed the rampant illegal immigration, among other things. Americans at airports (and everywhere) get more screening than illegal invaders.

[PGalt]

Music to read this thread by...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eo_-QjhcsU

Great post #1 2nd paragraph, drellberg.