This was an interesting read. And I am not saying that because of my views- this is an interesting read to lovers of politics from all sides. Seriously, it is time for our President to stop worrying about FOX News and start doing something positive! It's His Rubble Now And the American people want him to fix it. By PEGGY NOONAN At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. From that point on, the presidency—all... Read Full Story
Those Who Make Us Say 'Oh!' A tribute to America's war heroes, past and present. By PEGGY NOONAN More than most nations, America has been, from its start, a hero-loving place. Maybe part of the reason is that at our founding we were a Protestant nation and not a Catholic one, and so we made "saints" of civil and political figures. George Washington was our first national hero, known everywhere, famous to children. When he died, we had our first true national mourning, with cities and states... Read Full Story
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DID YOU HEAR WHAT PEGGY NOONAN AND JOHN McCAIN CAMPAIGN AIDE MIKE MURPHY WERE SAYING ABOUT McCAIN'S PRESIDENTIAL PICK SARAH PALIN on NBC the other night, live and on camera ?
If not, here's the actual unexpurgated segment, thanks to YouTube (and, ultimately, MoveOn.org):
Not to mention a transcript of the proceedings, With Necessary Omissions:
Mike Murphy, former McCain advisor: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor work. Engler, Whitman... Read Full Story
Peggy Noonan has always been one of my favorite writers. Her polished writing skills are legendary, as is her well-thought-out, frank views. I read her now in the Wall Street Journal , but she became famous as a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, crafting some of his best-remembered lines. Recently, she shared some of those political thoughts with Scott Ross. Peggy’s musings on the election and the American political landscape in general appear in her latest book, Patriotic Grace: What It Is... Read Full Story
I read an interesting commentary by Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal which has the Democrats in an uproar. I thought it quite insightful, and so I share it with you. Obama Gets Serious 8-29-08 The famous Greek amphitheater didn't look all Alexander the Great if you were there. It looked instead like the big front display window at Macy's during Presidents Day Sales Weekend. You expected to see "Sofas 40% off!" in a running line on the bottom of the screen. A friend said the columns... Read Full Story
He's Coming For You!
George Bailey : "Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was - why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He... Read Full Story
Peggy Noonan and Michael Murphy caught off guard in a conversation that is supposed to be private but was heard by millions of people all across America and the world. The two made a serious conversation thinking that their mics were off.. Here's the video And the transcript: Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the... Read Full Story
I never, ever, thought I would say this... But I agree completely with Republican superbitch Peggy Noonan's column in Friday's Wall Street Journal .
She discusses quite eloquently the dumbing down of American politics, and though she doesn't go so far as other Republicans like Colin Powell or Christopher Buckley to endorse Barack Obama, her harsh words for Sarah Palin make her position quite clear:
In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in... Read Full Story
By Zebulon Pike | October 24, 2008 Peggy Noonan, a writer who has made her name by overusing adjectives, envisions major benefits to a lurch left in America foreign policy : In a way, Mr. Obama can more easily go left in foreign relations for
the precise reason no one knows what going left is, because no one
knows what going right in foreign relations is, at least if "right"
means "conservative." Mr. Obama has a great chance, in this area, to
confuse the world. And a confused world is not... Read Full Story
I read a nice article by Peggy Noonan, published in The Wall Street Journal, that summarizes a lot of the frustrations that common Americans are feeling about our faltering institutions and growing anger at knowing that the real culprits of the debacle we are experiencing will be going home free. Another country voted in anger back in 1998. The population was angry at corruption, was angry at a worsening economy, was angry at record unemployment. It blamed, perhaps rightly so, its government... Read Full Story
