[Pokey78]

Ping for the PNPL!

[ladyinred]

I love reading Peggy, and this is her usual winner.
President Bush has made us all something we had forgotten how to be...........Americans...........United. Isn't it wonderful to feel that way again?
Those who don't want to join us are the losers here.

[SuziQ]

Mr. Bush's eloquence is in his plainspokenness, in the fact that each word is a simple coin with a definite worth.

Man, she is such an eloquent writer! It is a perfect description of Pres. Bush's speeches. No wasted or weasel words, he just says what he means and means what he says.

[GOPJ]

Can you add me to your ping list? Noonan's one of our best.

"A great gut plus a reliable character is maybe the exact perfect mix for any president, but certainly for a wartime president."

[JamesWilson]

A salute to the only person who has cut this 30-year old's taxes. Thank you, Mr. President for everything. [Tear.]

[hawaiian]

Mr. Bush's opposition at the moment appears to have been reduced to agreeing with the president on just about everything and then saying, "But let's make sure we don't run a deficit!" Mr. Bush is talking life and death, love and honor and they're running around talking like accountants.

CLASSIC!

[Swede Girl]

Terrific!

[Lady In Blue]

Mr. Bush's opposition at the moment appears to have been reduced to agreeing with the president on just about everything and then saying, "But let's make sure we don't run a deficit!" Mr. Bush is talking life and death, love and honor and they're running around talking like accountants.

I especially loved that line!

[BlueAngel]

Thanks Pokey. President Bush did us all proud this week!

[connectthedots]

The Democrats of Congress seem at the moment to be acting like liberal Republicans during the Great Society, always worried about the cost of things and never the meaning. Without a message they wince; they are acting like what H.L. Mencken said of the Puritans, that they lived in constant fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.

Who else would have ever thought to compare Democraps with Calvinists!

[Lorena]

Thanks Pokey, for another wonderful Noonan article.

[FairWitness]

Mr. Bush also is not by nature given to laundry-list speeches. One senses he understands that politicians who do them are trying to obscure the fact that they don't have a philosophy. They hope the adding up of program upon program will give the appearance of philosophy. But Mr. Bush has a philosophy. It is conservative.

Just so.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[pollyshy]

Mr. Bush's eloquence is in his plainspokenness, in the fact that each word is a simple coin with a definite worth.

It would seem that Parsing the President's Words has, blessedly, become a thing of the past.

Thanks for posting this, Pokey. BTTT

[shattered]

Thanks!

As more and more libs hopefully begin supporting and actually enjoying our President this country will have a fighting chance against terrorism and hate! Go GW!

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you Pokey !!!

[stanz]

A heart-warming article. I especially love how Peggy Noonan can summarize in a sentence what the rest of us take paragraphs to do:

Mr. Bush's eloquence is in his plainspokenness, in the fact that each word is a simple coin with a definite worth.

Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

[AUsome Joy]

Freedom is the God-given and natural state of man, the government exists to protect man's freedom, and the greatest and most reliable freedom protector in all of human history is: us.
The role of the Federal Government is not to decide what children will wear to school. Clinton was interested in uniforms, while Bush is interested in freedom.

In the old days elite opinion held that Mr. Bush was a scripted trust-fund dullard whose rise was greased by luck and birth.
There is a difference in the elitist intelligence of Clinton and Hillary, the smartest woman in the world, and Bush. Bush is genuinely intelligent and has God-given wisdom. While the pundits were so keen on the "intelligence" of Gore, we could see the wisdom of Bush.

Thanks for the Pokey ping.

[Alissa]

Peggy at her best!

[Ditter]

Add me to the ping list please. I was very impressed with Bush's speech. I never saw him look down to read anything & he didn't appear to be reading from a teleprompter, he had that whole speech in his head. I haven't heard ANYONE refer to Bush as dumb lately.