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The Right Man - State of the Union: Few sound bites, many thoughts. (PEGGY NOONAN)
Opinion Journal (The Wall Street Journal ) ^
| Thursday, January 30, 2003
| PEGGY NOONAN
Posted on 01/29/2003 10:43:44 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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You always hope a State of the Union address will be a sleek and handsome ocean liner cutting through the sea. Often they start that way and then turn, inevitably, into a greasy old barge riding low in the water, weighed down by policy cargo. It blows its horn proudly but the sound is more impressive than the ship; in fact it highlights the ship's inadequacy.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; noonan; stateoftheunion
More and more this presidency is feeling like a gift. Peggy nails it!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This, truly, is a good man. And that is a rare thing. I agree with the former, not the latter.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
" . More and more this presidency is feeling like a gift."
I haven't spoken to one person yet, who wasn't profoundly moved,some to tears,by President Bush's SOU speech. I think historians will be taking many quotes from this speech. I cannot remember one quote or thought from any speech of clinton's.Only the obvious vulgarities he uttered,which are compiled in a paperback book of dirty jokes.
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posted on
01/29/2003 11:40:02 PM PST
by
Wild Irish Rogue
(Why do Democrats want Americans to die?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/30/2003 12:27:45 AM PST
by
mrustow
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Peggy Noonan has said exactly what I would have said about the Bush Presidency and the SOTU, but far better than I ever could. She's one of our gems -- and why on Earth doesn't Bush have her
inside the Administration, performing her poetic miracles for him and his agenda?
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com
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posted on
01/30/2003 4:10:37 AM PST
by
fporretto
(Curmudgeon Emeritus, Palace of Reason)
To: fporretto
why on Earth doesn't Bush have her inside the Administration, performing her poetic miracles for him and his agenda? .... because he has her right where he needs her, in the public's eye! Did you catch her Tuesday night on Fox News? There she was, opposite Allan Colmes, calmly and cooly assessing the president's speech. And Allan was bobbing his head up and down, in surprising agreement.
The president has EXCELLENT speech writers, as exemplified by the very speech he delivered to us on Tuesday!
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posted on
01/30/2003 6:52:58 AM PST
by
NYer
(Kyrie Eleison)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
More and more this presidency is feeling like a giftYep. Like a rinse and a peppermint after a nasty session of chain-vomiting. And particularly a "gift" since the previous eight years were entirely our collective fault, a reflection of the self-inflicted collapse of American spirituality, morality, and character.
Dan
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01/30/2003 6:57:31 AM PST
by
BibChr
(Jesus -- not our feelings -- is the truth!)
To: BibChr
Amen!
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