The Children Are Watching (Peggy's kneepads)

WSJ ^ | 11/7/08 | Peggy Noonan

[pissant]

You're lucky to live through big history. And you're living through it.

The explosion of joy in large pockets of the country Tuesday night was beautiful to see, and moving. For me, at the end of the evening, looking at live shots of the throngs in Chicago's Grant Park, I flashed back to 1960 and how it felt, as a child, to see that the grown-ups had elected a Catholic president. I can't say we stood taller—we were Irish, we already stood tall—but yes, there was a wave of feeling: "What a country," "What a development!" The other day, when I said that to the writer Henry Louis Gates, head of African American studies at Harvard, he told me he'd grown up in a Catholic neighborhood and had celebrated that night with his neighbors because he thought he was one of them. That struck me as a very American anecdote.

It is a matter of profound importance that everyone in a nation know that with whatever facts they start their life, there is a clear and open route to rise. It is a less great country in which routes, and heights, are closed off or limited by things that, if you some day get to heaven, you will look back on and realize were silly, stupid: class, color, condition. That country will be greatest that offers its citizens the most possibilities in which to find happiness. There is power to be had in the full unleashing of human capital. So: a great night for America. I've yet to meet up with a conservative, a Republican or a McCain voter not aware of and moved by this aspect of the election's outcome.

[pissant]

Sure Peggy, we all feel proud when a marxist is elected because the PC cowards and sycophants and fellow travelers in the media - including you - refused to do your f****** jobs.

[steel_resolve]

I HATE HATE HATE Peggy Noonan. I wish she would stop trying to tap our inner emotions with her drippy dippy spiels. PLease just STFU.

[goodnesswins]

OKAY....PUKE.

[SeafoodGumbo]

Go to hell, Peggy Noonan, you're persona non grata.

[Jim Robinson]

Noonan is now officially an idiot.

[Pining_4_TX]

Noonan has always been an unctuous weasel with her pretend uptown accent. She's from Brooklyn or some place like that. What a pretentious bonehead.

[TAdams8591]

"It is a matter of profound importance that everyone in a nation know that with whatever facts they start their life, there is a clear and open route to rise. It is a less great country in which routes, and heights, are closed off or limited by things that, if you some day get to heaven, you will look back on and realize were silly, stupid: class, color, condition"

Two things. If Obama institutes a socialist government, all that is about to change AND with the way Peggy treated Governor Palin, it didn't seem much like she believed the above statement.

The rest of the article is nauseating to the max.

[Mamzelle]

ARGH!! PLEASE DO NOT HIT ON VICHY REPUBLICANS! BOYCOTT PEGGY NOONAN! HIT HER NO HITS, LINK HER NO LINKS, BUY NO BOOKS.

[mimaw]

A has been. I canceled the WSJ because of people like her.

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Why does this remind me of the early parts of Arianna Huffington’s liberal conversion - when she realized there was money and fame in being a turncoat.

[nowheretohide]

What has this woman done in the last 20 years....wrote stupid columns.

[ChiMark]

Noonan, Krauthammer and Fred Barnes not my favs since this election cycle.

[PGR88]

Reading Peggy Noonan is like watching a Dove Soap or Plavix commercial. Overly sentimental and feminine, too reflective and above all - just sappy.

[ClaudiusI]

This election moved me, I woke up on Wednesday morning feeling better than I'd felt in a very long time. For, you see, the King of the RINOs had fallen. The "Stopped Clock" presidency of Bush Jr. is almost over. The two greatest cancers in the Body Republica have been excised.
Don't you understand? It's over; we're free. We no longer have to defend those jerks or the vile facade they tried to make the Republican party into.
The Democrites should be trembling in their Birkenstocks; because we're back. This time there will be concessions, no cabinet holdovers, and we will be taking no prisoners.

[roses of sharon]

Balderdash!

Peg is a bigot plan and simple, all her ranting about interest group opportunity in America, when she gave a Gov Palin none?

A woman who worked her way up, with ZERO affirmative action government help, with a small town education and upbringing, and Noonan gives her no props?

Just the opposite, calls her out as white trash, dissing her class in life.

Shut up you insincere bitch.

[garykfd]

Don’t forget Carl Cameron.. he cost me a flatscreen tv in my kitchen today.(they dont work very good with a fork stuck in em from across the room) now i gotta get a new one.. and boy is the old lady pissed at me!!!

[exhaustedmomma]

Oh for crying out loud, enough with this Camelot stuff. Besides, here's a list of other IRISH PRESIDENTS: Andrew Jackson
James Knox Polk
James Buchanan
Ulysses S Grant
Chester Alan Arthur
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhous Nixon
James Earl Carter
Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
George W Bush

[ChicagahAl]

“It is a matter of profound importance that everyone in a nation know that with whatever facts they start their life, there is a clear and open route to rise”

Massive Vote Fraud, Massive Campaign Finance Fraud, Voter Intimidation, Media Fraud, Threats Against Opponents, Complete Disregard For Laws and Regulations.

Yes. A clear and open route to rise.

Where did America go?

[M1911A1]

Is there a way to excommunicate Noonan and her ilk?

[nyc1]

This sums up Peggy Noonan for me:

“In the Oval Office you meet yourself every day.”

WFT? She’s the biggest airhead writing about politics, who somehow has convinced people her vapid musings are profound.