Iowahawk: An Ill Wind is Breaking For Our President

That's just exactly who I thought of too. Looking more and more like Thurston Howell every day, our Chrissie. Downright nautical cut to his jib, one might say, at least in the sense of rum, buggery, and the lash. Not the man his Pater was, but then who is?

One is reminded of that spate of articles earlier in the year proclaiming with simultaneous conformity that the conservative movement itself was stuck in the doldrums, leaderless, casting about for the guidance of a Frum, a Parker, a Noonan, or even such a dashing blue-blooded sportsman as Buckley himself. Alas, that was before the devolution of what was hopefully turning into an obedient lapdog into the snarling attack animal typified by the tea parties and one Sarah Palin. We are unlikely ever to be approved of again in the Hamptons or in the tonier sections of Manhattan. Alas for a lost opportunity.

Nevertheless, it is only slowly dawning on the upper stria of the media and social America that they really only scammed their way to 52% of the vote in the first place and that perhaps the universal mandate to having the nation made over under the model of a country club - you know who sipping the martinis and the rest of us trimming the hedges and paying the bill - was not quite as overwhelming as posited by Parker, Frum, etc, etc, not to mention throne-sniffers such as Olbermann and Matthews.

Alas again, the rabble are at the gate and it doesn't look like Security is going to be able to glower them away. The proles turn out to be someone other than Carlos the chauffeur and Rosita the nanny and mirabile dictu! - they're saying they want their country back. Tough days ahead in the Blue Zone, to be sure.

I was beginning to soften towards Noonan the other day...considering that she's trying to worm her way back into the good graces of the right, but then I ran across this reminder of her ode to the magnificent emptiness:

"He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief.

He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make.

We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice." - Peggy Noonan, October 31, 2008

So it is with a white hot fire, I say, well, what Iowahawk would have Rahm say by way of response to any who would dare to displease him.

“He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts.”

As someone else pointed out, this is total bosh. He went to a top, expensive private school in Honolulu. He is a product of the elite Ivy League, undergrad and law school. He’s had a helping hand every step of the way - hardly a “no connections,” school of hard knocks rise to power. Peggy Swoonin’ is an idiot.

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