They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Peggy Noonan)

WSJ ^ | 7/29/2011 | Peggy Noonan

[chickadee]

But that actually is not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about something that started to become apparent to me during the debt negotiations. It's something I've never seen in national politics.

It is that nobody loves Obama. This is amazing because every president has people who love him, who feel deep personal affection or connection, who have a stubborn, even beautiful refusal to let what they know are just criticisms affect their feelings of regard. At the height of Bill Clinton's troubles there were always people who'd say, "Look, I love the guy." They'd often be smiling—a wry smile, a shrugging smile. Nobody smiles when they talk about Mr. Obama. There were people who loved George W. Bush when he was at his most unpopular, and they meant it and would say it. But people aren't that way about Mr. Obama. He has supporters and bundlers and contributors, he has voters, he may win. But his support is grim support. And surely this has implications.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I agree, chick. People who I know who loooooved Hussein are oh so quiet now. I do know one or two who got brave after Hussein’s continuation of Bush’s policies led to the death of Osama.

[atc23]

Obama has always been a loner looking for an identity and unfortunately the only thing close by for him to grab onto was marxism

I really enjoy reading Peggy. It's a somewhat perverse joy like putting a penny in a glass of Coke, eating a Milk-Bone or a spoonful of Tide.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

They heard him as he lead them to believe that all the white hucksters were going to be thrown out of their homes and those homes were then going to be given to them because with about 3 kids a piece, they needed 4 bedroom homes more than the people living in them in 2008 who had 2 kids and a Grand piano. And the displaced people could then go and buy or build new ones because they had the money. That is what it means to organize a community, as far as they know, and he has failed to organize it to their satisfaction.

I believe this is a correct analysis of the way those who support Obama think. This makes the entire situation VERY dangerous.

[CharacterCounts]

And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”

You put plenty of love on him, Peggy.

[Iron Munro]

She can test her thesis by standing between Obama and Chris Matthews.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Peggy loved Obama up until a couple of weeks ago.

[DManA]

**** the Boehner bill on the debt ceiling because it goes in the right directions, contains spending cuts but not taxes, and is viable. ****

That is simply, factually wrong. There are no spending cuts. Period.

[Melian]

I don’t know who Noonan talks with, but she’s wrong about this, as usual. My liberal facebook friends are still gushing about him and “heart”-ing him all over the place.

We need to get it through our heads: liberals will never change or see reason. They don’t want to and they fight reality. We have got to take control and crush them without their approval, understanding, or help.

Rise up, America. Wise up, America.

[Lancey Howard]

What? Peggy had nothing snide to say about Sarah Palin?

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Yeah, but Hussein IS a socialist.”

and an alien!

[going hot]

My liberal facebook friends

Are they really your friends?

[SanFranDan]

I stopped reading her in 2008 after she soaked herself with excitement and slid off her lounge chair. Despite cleaning herself, she’s irrelevant.

[Dr. Sivana]

"And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.”

Peggy Noonan has never been to Wrigley Field.

[Artemis Webb]

Re #53:

I don’t at all disagree with you. What frustrates me is that Noonan was so easily charmed and duped in the 2008 cycle yet refuses to even acknowledge that she was an “Obama fawner”. If she’d show a little shame or even chagrin I might be more forgiving. I will always be grateful to her for writing some of Ronald Reagan’s greatest speeches but since 2008 Peggy Noonan has been dead to me.

[Artemis Webb]

"Peggy Noonan has never been to Wrigley Field."

Do they let Elitist Snots in Wrigley?

[Seaplaner]

Yes.

Ms. Noonan has been a middle-aged Obama groupie and indefatigable re-worder and interpreter of Mister Obama's actual meanings and intentions since 07, and there's no calling any of this back.

She concludes her typically schizophrenic (covering her criticisms with compliments) piece by writing...

He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. He is a loser. And this is America, where nobody loves a loser.

Ms. Noonan surely knows she's wrong about the "socialist" statement; however she has so much emotional capital invested in the man that she provides a counterexample for an article about how little emotional attachment people have w Obama.

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[Oratam]

My liberal facebook friends are still gushing about him and “heart”-ing him all over the place.

There's some 50th b'day nonsense on FB that I chose to visit . . . like playing with a loose tooth. About 10 'friends' faces popped up as 'liking' it. They were the same insufferable d'bags from '08 that made visits to FB unbearable.

[newzjunkey]

Unfortunately he still has way too many worshippers.

More unfortunate? He'll have EVEN MORE if the tea party blows it for the GOP this weekend.

[Mamzelle]

The only thing I’d disagree with is to point out that she is well past middle age.

[flowerplough]

“he has failed to organize it to their satisfaction”

The key. When you’re dreaming of your Federal Government giving you alot of free stuff, what happens when the dream’s deferred?

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over–
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes