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Peggy Noonan : He Can't Take Another Bow
Wall Street Journal ^ | November 24, 2009 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 11/26/2009 10:53:47 PM PST by RobinMasters

This week, two points in an emerging pointillist picture of a White House leaking support—not the support of voters, though polls there show steady decline, but in two core constituencies, Washington's Democratic-journalistic establishment, and what might still be called the foreign-policy establishment.

From journalist Elizabeth Drew, a veteran and often sympathetic chronicler of Democratic figures, a fiery denunciation of—and warning for—the White House. In a piece in Politico on the firing of White House counsel Greg Craig, Ms. Drew reports that while the president was in Asia last week, "a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man." They once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama," and were key to his rise, but now they are concluding that the president isn't "the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought."

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1 posted on 11/26/2009 10:53:48 PM PST by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 11/26/2009 10:54:57 PM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

They once held "an unromantically high opinion of Obama," but now it is very romantic. He's talking in his sleep.

3 posted on 11/26/2009 10:59:27 PM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: RobinMasters


4 posted on 11/26/2009 10:59:48 PM PST by Yossarian
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She scored "the Chicago crowd," which she characterized as "a distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team." The White House, Ms. Drew says, needs adult supervision—"an older, wiser head, someone with a bit more detachment."

Who could be more detached than Joe Biden? "Wiser", however, doesn't apply.

5 posted on 11/26/2009 11:01:49 PM PST by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: RobinMasters

You mean they never understood that Bummer is a puppet run by committee???


6 posted on 11/26/2009 11:02:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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"a critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for his presidency began to wonder whether they had misjudged the man."

"Influential" but, astonishingly stupid, apparently.

7 posted on 11/26/2009 11:02:39 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: RobinMasters
"The President isn't the person of integrity and even classiness they had thought."

Are you kidding? No, say it isn't so! [/sarcasm]


THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA


AWAKEN, O AMERICA, YOUR LIBERTY IS CALLING (Inspiring Video)

8 posted on 11/26/2009 11:04:05 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: RobinMasters

Why would the WSJ give this Obama swooning skank a writing gig?


9 posted on 11/26/2009 11:07:47 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: RobinMasters

That hope and change not goin’ so well Pegs?


10 posted on 11/26/2009 11:09:12 PM PST by Hugin (Sarah Palin: accept no substitutes!)
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To: Electric Graffiti

She eats crow now.


12 posted on 11/26/2009 11:14:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I guess this article is just giving us the sneak preview of how the liberal intelligentsia sheep will be backing away from his colossal disasters to come. Of course his supporters all know what he’s about, but 50 years from now you’ll still hear excuses and rewritten history, akin to their worship of FDR today. Hopefully, what they have to deny and ignore about Obozo won’t be as bad as what the nation went through during FDR times.


13 posted on 11/26/2009 11:14:33 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: RobinMasters

Sounds as if the aftertaste of the bummer koolaid is starting to get to ole peg.


14 posted on 11/26/2009 11:16:06 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: RobinMasters

But what becomes of the broken hearted?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA0GcXV2njY
They go to work!


15 posted on 11/26/2009 11:20:04 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: RobinMasters

AHAaaaaaaaaaa

Now I know why Ms Noonan’s suddenly discovered conservativism once again....her DC journalist friends are having second thoughts.... so she is now trying to take advantage as if she were with us first and all along.

I did respect her once.


16 posted on 11/26/2009 11:28:07 PM PST by tinamina
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Well what happened Peggy?

You were telling us how brilliant and charming Obama was during the election.

What? It wasn’t true?

Peggy you burned your credibility in 2008 and I doubt you’ll be able to get it back.


17 posted on 11/26/2009 11:31:36 PM PST by DB
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I DID, I saw a picture...in fact I saw more than one, didn’t I?

Oh yes, I did.....Our President was bowing from the WAIST in these pictures..I never saw such a thing, did you? From the WAIST I tell you...our leader is a jerk, really........


18 posted on 11/26/2009 11:40:57 PM PST by tinamina
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To: RobinMasters

I hate to sound like a Dittohead but Rush is usually right on the money: Obama will be the media’s Waterloo.


19 posted on 11/26/2009 11:42:09 PM PST by toddausauras
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Obama is who we thought he is and was: a radical Marxist, a true believer who will stop at nothing to get his agenda passed and a permanent socialist bureaucracy established and entrenched to ensure a permanent Democrat government.


20 posted on 11/26/2009 11:45:46 PM PST by techno
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