Posted on 10/30/2008 9:19:25 PM PDT by Saint Athanasius
The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:
He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. Obama and the Runaway Train The race, the case, a hope for grace.
He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.
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Perhaps. But I think there's a very different current stirring, powered by Americans who still care about the difference between freedom and Marxism. Peggy Noonan was one of us once, but that was quite a while ago.
the noonan/buckley case for obama: He can’t be telling the truth about what he’s going to do. so let’s vote for him.
i’m uh...not persuaded. sorry.
She’s auditioning to be David Gergen.
That's precisely it. Envy has completely warped her brain -- envy of Palin's youth, her power, her lack of pretension, and of course her looks. Combine that with the fact that Peggy's politics have never been philosophically grounded and the result is what we now see.
I wish Ronald Reagan would come back from the dead just to retroactively fire this woman’s A**.
I think I mean that literally.
Good grief, if you're endorsing Obama then stop with the sophistry and get to your point. And while you're at it, Pegster please wax poetic about how everything Reagan worked for HIS ENTIRE LIFE is about to be undone by somebody whose old lady didn't like her country until her old man ran for office.
Unbelievable!
I actually was going to get that book, but not anymore.
This whole election year has been weird... at first, I thought that Peggy had made a mistake on the mike, then she writes that stupid column about “Palin Failin..” now this garbage..
She has lost it... I wasn’t going to read her column tonight, then I said what the hey...so I read it, then I threw up...
She’s auditioning to be David Gergen.
This stoey is attributed to both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. My guess is the Journal.
As I said in the Frum thread:
Up is down, right is left...its a freaking bizarro world!
Hey! Peggy forgot to mention the Mercury Mininmization Act of 2007, the ONLY bill Obama got through the Senate, and the APEX of his accomplishments!! How could she forget the unforgettable?
And I am sick to death of this being about race. I would vote for Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell in a second. I don’t vote for Obama because he is a socialist. I don’t give a rat’s behind what color he is. I think some of these elitist country club “Republicans” are trying to absolve their guilt about race by being “enlightened” by Obama.
What a joke.
Noonan is a professional wordsmith and is overly impressed by style rather than substance. In her later years, she is morphing into an actual idiot. Just reading this piece, you can see how she is in love with words, is mesmerized by them, to the point where rational thought just slips away.
Do you really think it is that simple?
I mean she attacked Palin from Day One... not even knowing her... not even giving her a chance. Maybe she wanted to the VP nominee. (I really think she wanted Romney to be the VP or Kay Bailey)
But she has lost her mind...
It is the Journal... I wasn’t thinking when I posted. Sorry about that.
I can write my faux-poetic prose at flowing length about the myth of Obama, while McCain is just too down to earth and non-Hollywood. Just think, for the next four to eight years I can fill the Wall Street Journal with phrases like "He stands, upright and cheerful--nay, Reaganesque--and strides onto the world stage with the hope and dreams of one who has come to deliver us from the turgid dullness of the Bushies."
Peggy posts articles on some web site by and for liberal women--we're surprised that she's finally revealed she was never about conservative principles, she's always been a member of the cult of personality. It doesn't matter what a politician IS, it's how he makes her FEEEEEEL.
I too would vote for Mr. Steele, gladly. But let’s get real, Ken Blackwell is an idiot. He got creamed in Ohio for good reason.
Whatever we learn from this election, even if we win (which is NOT a longshot), we must learn how to recruit viable candidates with more diverse ethnic backgrounds. I hope somebody in party figures this out in a hurry.
Does Pegs realize she's talking about a guy whose minions opened an opponent's DIVORCE RECORDS to win his senate seat?
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