Noonan, I;m afraid, seems to have joined those elites snobs of whom she has so often spoken against.
Would she rather have heard President Bush rattling on about tax revenue projections in the out years of Social Security??
The President's speech was inspiring, not to mention vital to the future of this great nation.
After reading this snobbish Wall Street Journal column, I can only surmise that Noonan has joined that elite group of conceited analysts who inhabit the detatched halls of insider punditry.
I find her annoyingly self-centered.
Her writing is formulaic. It always starts out with some "we" story (as if she and whatever little group of people are more special than you or I...remember...SHE was in the lobby with Warren Buffett) and then it drivels off into her constant assertions that SHE is far more sensitive, nuanced, whatever...than you or I will ever be.
Peggy Noon is tiresome, and has never accomplished anything in her entire life. Why she is a "pundit" is beyond me.