Peggy Noonan: Way Too Much God

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 21, 2005 | Peggy Noonan

[ohioWfan]

WONDERFUL analysis by Knippenberg! Thanks. I might have missed it. I especially like this......

For Bush, this line of argument is not altogether new. He has long asserted that freedom is "God’s gift to humanity." What is different, I think, is his assertion of the scope of America’s ideals and interests and his acknowledgement of great flexibility in their promotion. Stated another way, this is a most statesmanlike affirmation of principle and prudence.

A statemsanlike affirmation of principle and prudence........that's what I heard in this speech. NOT "too much God-talk, or "mission inebriation."

The Ashbrook Center is one of the most respected, prestigious conservative centers of learning in the country........and it happens to be right in my back yard.

That's where I heard Benjamin Netanyahu and Barbara Bush. The first speaker at their annual fundraising banquet was none other than Ronaldus Magnus!

I'm hoping that before too long, the current President W. Magnus accepts an invitation to speak there.

[sdpatriot]

oh wow! did you see Noonan made it unto this slimy socialist anti war blog? she really pumped them up good!

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1671

congrats to Ms. Noonan. what was that i said .... about fodder for the enemy? yeah... classy....

[MEG33]

I used to have the Ashbrook Center site in my favorites..So much to read, so little time..Guess they go back on again.

[LibertarianInExile]

Gosh, then you appended a screed attacking Peggy, too. However did that get there?

You can fiddledee all you want, Miss Scarlett, but I'm not buying your 'I'm innocent' any more than I bought Martha Stewart's.

And AGAIN you miss the point. Noonan was not attacking them to make the point that any argument they make is invalid. She was attacking them flat out, and knowing a hack piece is a hack piece, she did it in the only classy way you can do that--Noonan did NOT attack anyone by name. I don't excuse her hack piece, but that doesn't make any difference insofar as YOUR methods. No, you still think it's perfectly okay to attack her person when you disagree. And you brought that article in solely to do so.

[MEG33]

Need a hankie?

[ohioWfan]

THIS was your first post on this thread, Lib.

You came here to cause trouble and to ridicule anyone who dared stand up for the President, and you have succeeded in that goal. You lie with impunity, and make false charges if you think it will make people mad, even when the facts are here in black and white on this thread.

You have NO moral authority to say anything to anyone about any form of imagined 'abuse.' That's what you came on this thread to do........belittle others and then cry like a baby when they called you on it.

You can't be taken seriously any more by anyone, so why don't you just give it up?

[LibertarianInExile]

Eww, no thanks, yours is dirty from wiping the blood off your long knife.

[LibertarianInExile]

Hey, the only one here going 'waaaah' and making things up is you, missy. I am only sticking around because you want to lie and say you're defending some great free speech, when what you're really defending is your ability to intimidate and attack anyone who doesn't stick with your agenda. Anyone who reads the thread can tell, no matter how much you want to play your "I'm an innocent Christian" card.

That your view of the President is some sort of see-no-hear-no-do-no-evil fantasyland is not my problem. That you expect others to share this view simply because they are conservative is. People like you and the folks you rush to defend are what's wrong with politics in this country, because to you, there is no such thing as a civil discussion. No attack is wrong or too personal--no matter your nominally Christian beliefs. Someone calls Noonan a bitch or a jealous traitor, you're all for their right to free speech. Anyone who even gives the inappropriate nature of those comments a second thought, however, they're just flamebait.

Then you have the gall to judge anyone's moral authority. ROFLMAO.

[MEG33]

LOL..Bless your heart.

[LibertarianInExile]

Thank you, and I echo your thoughts.

[TolucaLakeConservative]

I'm afraid I really have to agree with you about Noonan's hypocrisy...and her latest column on the same subject...is just defensiveness...very disappointing!