So has here flame for Obama diminished as of yet?
Hmmm. Maybe the bloom is off the Bambi.
Noonan was a leading critic of W, McCain and especially Sarah Palin. If bad is coming, she hurried it along.
From her days as a Reagan speechwriter, Noonan has only been interested in her own marketability. Dramatic sighs while mouthing banal observations is her trademark.
She has gained a lot of weight too.
This sentence has been bothering me all weekend. She seems to imply that the most sophisticated are the cause of the problems. I think this is true. Gesthner ran the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the most powerful of the Federal Reserve Banks. He was at the center of the shenanigans. Apparently so sophisticated the tax code didn't apply to him. Now, he's going to save the system???
Atlas Shrugged!
I could have written your post. I think Peggy gets drunk with the idea of a charismatic leader who takes the public’s imagination and runs with it. It’s not a particularly conservative idea, except when you consider Reagan, and Peggy’s history with him.
I think reality has settled over her, and she and others are starting to realize they bought into Obama’s BS because of his race—now that they’ve come down, they’re realizing they should have evaluated him on the merits, not on the historical significance of his skin pigmentation.
She states she is inclined to believe that Cheney’s prediction of a large-scale terrorist attack/s is true. And now she questions the Obama administration’s thinking and motives on the recent actions regarding terrorism and terrorist states.
Was she so enamored with Obama’s fake, slick talk that she didn’t see this coming? Did she think that electing Obama would change the world and automatically make us safe. She has proven to be a stupid woman who uses pretty words - kind of like the man she used to admire.
Too late, Peggy, the damage has been done.
I beg to differ, knowing the nose she's looling down.
Ms. Noonan apparently is a highly suggestible woman. The spell is beginning to wear off for her now. Well, well.
Now that she’s losing her Bam goggles, should we expect a less insular, less snotty evaluation of Sarah Palin?
I won’t have any use for her until she does so.
It would have been more admirable for Ms. Noonan to be a clear thinker and incisive observer during the entire process. She is way too old to be granted the indulgence we might give to a sixteen year old in their first romance.
Furthermore, she is one who will say one thing in public and another in private. In other words, she is a liar.
Too little, too late, Peggy. I am afraid that the train wreck has left the station.
Brace yourselves for the collapse of fiat currencies. You really want to accept a promissory note payable in...more promissory notes? No thanks, I’ll start trading worth for worth.
I read it in total. She’s still a second rate pigs’ hind teat.
Bump for morning coffee.
On the economy, I continue to find no one, Democrat or Republican, who has faith that the stimulus bill passed by the House will solve anything or make anything better, though many argue that doing absolutely nothing will surely make things worse by not promising at least the possibility of improvement through action.In other words, the stimulus bill will do nothing economically useful, but it makes people feel good. Sounds right.
Still reading..but this stuck out:
“His political mistake, which in retrospect we will see as huge, is that he remoralized the Republicans. He let them back in the game.’
WE???? She sounds sad that the republicans are getting their mojo back!!
i’ve been saying it for months. the dems have until june to crater the US economy and still blame the former administration/republicans.
once its cratered, they will provide various social programs people will need to be able to eat. at that point, we will be in 1930... and the dems will have secured power for 20-40 years
i’m still trying to figure out how to avoid the splatter. keeping your monies in the market is just asking to get hosed. keeping it in dollars or euros... both will plummet. the chinese rmb is one idea, as their unhooking from the dollar is soros end goal anyhow. right now, all i can see is gold, as it has never lost its buying power
I guess she did not get the job.
I’m visiting this thread only to say that I’m not reading the column. I got sick of Peggy Noonan writing about nothing but how we all feel a long time ago.
It’s the Column About Nothing.
BTW, Peggy. Obama wants the United States to END, and that is the purpose of all his policy choices. He wants an American city to get nuked. He wants to see Americans freezing and starving. He and his buddies will be helicoptered out and spend their days in comfort, courtesy of George Soros.
On your recommendation, I will give her a read, having given up on her a while back. She is lost, but, like George Will, can still express some coherence once in a while.