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PEGGY NOONAN: They're Paying Attention Now ( John McCain )
Wall Street Journal ^ | August 22, 2008 | PEGGY NOONAN

Posted on 08/22/2008 5:07:59 AM PDT by kellynla

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To: kellynla
I used to love Peggy Noonan. Something has happened to her. She has completely abandoned Bush and blamed him for the woes of the party. I look at her as a female David Brooks, and R, but an unprincipled R. And one of the tell tale sings is this crazy "one term pledge" and her rational for it.

"It would give bitter Democrats a chance to regroup, and it would give those who like Obama but consider him a little half-baked to vote against him guiltlessly while he becomes fully baked. (Imagine the Q&A when Sen. Obama announces his second presidential run in 2011: "Well, Brian, I think, looking back, there is something to be said for the idea that I will be a better president now than frankly I would have been four years ago. Experience, if you allow it, is still the best of all teachers.")

My God, is she that naive? Dems getting over it? They aren't over 2000! And time for Obama to mature? He will be just as bad then as he is now. Besides it won't happen. Losers in this fight don't get a second chance. If McCain makes this pledge he will be a lame duck from the get go.

41 posted on 08/22/2008 8:10:13 AM PDT by Pharmer (How am I supposed to rule the world when I surrounded by freakin liberal idiots!)
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To: HamiltonJay
Yes the press is in Fauxbama’s back pocket and have been for 4 months, and even that can’t keep him afloat. He’ll get his convention bounce, and that will be the last time his numbers go up, between now and Nov.
Possibly he'll get a bounce, but I wonder even about that. In a convention which will be for the purpose of nominating a Barak Obama, there is bound to be a critical mass of Jeremiah Wrights. I'm agreeing with your "Wellstone Memorial" analysis, and raising it - I just don't think that that many Jeremiah Wrights can keep their racist hostility from ooozing out. Not when they are entitled to reparations for things done to their ancestors, by the ancestors of some - but far from all - "typical white" Americans.

I think they are not capable of staying within the script. Whether or not the polls reflect that immediately after their convention, I think that the defeat of the Obama campaign will be baked in the cake after the Democratic convention. After that, it'll be McCain's election to lose - tho I do not question that he is capable of losing it.


42 posted on 08/22/2008 8:12:58 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: Piquaboy

“He is an empty head on top of an empty suit?”

And how many years did you spend in the Hanoi Hilton...

that’s what I thought...


43 posted on 08/22/2008 8:15:29 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: libstripper
She's gradually getting over it, but her panties are still a bit moist

Wow. Can you say that on a family oriented web site?

44 posted on 08/22/2008 8:42:25 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: kellynla
Why is it a real race now, with John McCain rising in the polls and Barack Obama falling? There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention.

Peggy's right. No one knows him. Hell, there are Americans out there who don't even know George Bush is President yet. And some of 'em vote.

45 posted on 08/22/2008 8:46:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (If Obama can't stand up to Hillary, he can't stand up to North Korea. Iran. Or anyone.)
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To: RexBeach

Polk died on June 15, 1849, a mere 103 days after he left office, so it wouldn’t have done him much good to have run for a second term.


46 posted on 08/22/2008 9:19:04 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: libstripper

“The absolutely last thing in the world we want is for the Messiah to become “fully baked”

But think of what a “fully baked” Obama would be and what his record would be. He would progress along a very liberal path (necessary to achieve the Dem nomination). He would have a voting record that Americans just won’t buy. In voting in the Senate, you can’t have it both ways, the way he operated in the Illinois State Senate.


47 posted on 08/22/2008 9:21:49 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ckilmer
imho 2112 begins to look like romney vs warner

IMHO, neither of them will be alive in 2112.

48 posted on 08/22/2008 9:22:36 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: kellynla

marking for later


49 posted on 08/22/2008 9:23:18 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (About Obama: "Overinflated balloons pop suddenly and catastrophically." - Bill Dupray)
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To: kellynla

Pssst, Peggy, pretty Lady, Barack Obama is not the point of focus you in the media ought to be focus upon, David Axelrod is where your focus ought to be sonce Obama is his fabrication. David Axelrod is an expert at creating a receptor to which people can project ... IOW, Barack Obama is a projection SCREEN fabrciated by David Axelrod to receive whatever Axelrod can get people to project onto Obama Screen. It is a well known psychological phenomenon in human relations ... mate fall in love with what they have projected onto the ‘other’ and seldom see the real person onto whom they have projected their hopes and aspirations. Axelrod uses terms like ‘hope’ and ‘change’ as portions of the invitation to project onto the Obama screen what you want to believe about ‘tour choice in political leadership. And Peggy, darlin’, 99% of man-woman relationships will be hallmarked by the projector awakening to the real nature of the screen ... and that’s why we have so many divorces and so many abortions and so many unhappy mating aged people. AND AXELROD is exploiting those sorts of people who have projected, been disappointed, and seek someone else onto whom they can project.


50 posted on 08/22/2008 9:53:25 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

Heard from the mothership lately?


51 posted on 08/22/2008 10:02:11 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: MHGinTN

Very good. You oughta copy this post to the WSJ site where peggy darlin’ will read it!


52 posted on 08/22/2008 10:06:01 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: Old Professer

I really should do preview before posting ... dropped lots of verb endings and plural markings. BUT the mothership is a Calypso Louie hallmark. If you want to insult someone, tyr to hit closer to something real. Project much lately?


53 posted on 08/22/2008 10:06:25 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

No insult intended; playful poking, is all.


54 posted on 08/22/2008 10:10:16 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

What are you talking about and what does it have to do with this topic?


55 posted on 08/22/2008 10:10:52 AM PDT by RobRoy (This is comical)
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To: Revolting cat!

Okay, I just edited it and submitted at the WSJ comments site. Whatever ...


56 posted on 08/22/2008 10:12:53 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

>>Polk died on June 15, 1849, a mere 103 days after he left office, so it wouldn’t have done him much good to have run for a second term.<<

So, then, you are saying he is no threat to McCain or Obama?


57 posted on 08/22/2008 10:14:28 AM PDT by RobRoy (This is comical)
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To: RobRoy

LOL...If you look at posts 11, 14, 19, 24, 25 and 27 you’ll see I’m not the one who took this detour; I’m just a hitch hiker that came along for the ride.


58 posted on 08/22/2008 10:16:48 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: RobRoy

Actually it all started with #4)


59 posted on 08/22/2008 10:17:59 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: RobRoy

Well, Polk could still cast a vote for Obama, so McCain needs to carry TN by at least two votes. As far as competing for office, I don’t think Polk is a threat to anyone.


60 posted on 08/22/2008 10:21:52 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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