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  • Peggy Noonan: Way Too Much God (Freepers let's tell her our thoughts)

    01/21/2005 4:19:45 AM PST · by Mikmur · 413 replies · 7,199+ views
    WSJ ^ | 1/21/05 | Peggy Noonan
    PEGGY NOONAN Way Too Much God Was the president's speech a case of "mission inebriation"? The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike. Rhetorically, it veered from high-class boilerplate to strong and simple sentences, but it was not pedestrian. George W. Bush's second inaugural will no doubt prove historic because it carried a punch, asserting an agenda so sweeping that an observer quipped that by the end he would not have been surprised if the president had announced we were going to colonize Mars. A short and self-conscious preamble led quickly to...