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Grounding Principles
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Earlier in the week, Lisa remarked how unimpressive the photo of the living presidents and president-elect looked. Peggy Noonan sums it u p well this morning: "We hire them, we fire them, they come back for photo-ops. They're not magic." ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — PEGGY NOONAN, DOING THE POT/KETTLE THING Oh, this is too easy. Here's Peggy Noonan writing about that meeting of the presidents this week: ... MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell spoke to a journalist about how presidents get advice and information. Mitchell noted that people often mean to speak hard truths but then "they walk into the Oval Office and get tongue tied." She was referring to the awe with which we view the presidency, the White House, and the famous office with no corners in which presidents so often feel cornered. Here is an idea for everyone ...
Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping Presidents Is “Un-American”
Firedoglake —
How can you tell a Democrat is about to move into the White House? When Nooners writes something like this:
The Founders, who were awed by the presidency and who made it a point, the early ones, to speak in their inaugural addresses of how unworthy ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... originality, hesitate to deviate too much from the conventional wisdom, lest they be marginalized or even ostracized. Gail Collins: Members of the still-not-in-power administration traveled to the Capitol this week to allow Senate Democrats to complain about the upcoming stimulus package. The Obama-ites were extremely eager to listen. After all, senators have feelings, too. Bush is still President?! Damn. Peggy Noonan: It struck me as I watched Barack Obama, in giving a ...
Peggy Noonan Off Her Meds
N/A —
... Politics is a lot like high school, if you still think you have to hang with the Cool Kids. Or with ex presidents. Peggy Noonan has gone off her meds. Again. ...
Obama Preps for Inaugural Address
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
The AP notes history "wants something for the ages" in Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inaugural speech. "Not just pretty words that melt like gumdrops but something that will settle in the nation's soul and be worth making schoolchildren memorize 100 years from now."
Peggy Noonan: "It struck me as I watched Barack Obama, in giving a substantive economic speech just 11 days before his inaugural address, that he was trying to clear away a lot of brush, and giving the outlines of his plan in advance so as not to weigh down his inaugural with phrases like 'solar ...
I Don't See Your America
Fraters Libertas —
At times, Peggy Noonan write some of the most insightful and astute political commentary of our times. At others, she writes things like this : In terms of public support, Mr. Obama shouldn't get too abstract. He should be thinking hardhats. People want to make their country strong--literally, concretely, because the things they fear (terrorism, global collapse) are so huge and amorphous. Lately I think the biggest thing Americans fear, deep dow--the thing they'd say if you could put the whole nation on the couch and say, "Just free associate, tell me what you fear?--is, "I am ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 13, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... and the gang; Bush eliminated all possibility of being convicted himself -- the "Iran-Contra Cover Up was complete"!!! * * *"... we saw the past four presidents standing in the Oval Office for a photo-op on the afternoon of their private lunch. As you looked at the pictures afterward you had to think: How flawed were they? How many were a success?" I saw 2 who were really "flawed" and they were both named Bush!!! I saw one who seemingly has an insignificant unimportant sexual problem, but otherwise successful with handling the people's business, and one whose policies have ...
