The morning after Obama's acceptance speech, Peggy Noonan told the Morning Joe crowd on MSNBC that everything she'd predicted about the speech and the event in her Wall Street Journal column turned out to be true.
It sucked, Peggy said. In a few months, no one would remember anything he said. The Parthenon set was ridiculous. The rhetoric never achieved any height. It was full of tired old cliches. It disappointed the crowd, who'd waited in the sun for hours for uplift. There was no humor, no wit, no soaring. It was the old, pre-Bill Clinton liberalism. And anyone who disagreed with her -- like the MSNBC talking head who called the night "a symphony" -- was guilty of "suckupitis."
When Scarborough pointed out that Pat Buchanan, of all people, had praised the speech, and called it "manly," Peggy replied, Well, the best thing I could say about it is that it "wasn't sissy."
I'm paraphrasing here, writing while she's still on the air, but this is the gist: At least the speech wasn't all about all those miserable unemployed people that Democrats always talk about. It wasn't full of whining about all those unhappy sick people they only seem to see. It wasn't about a woman who had a two-headed child who was used as a bowling ball.
More like this, Peggy. Please.
I hope everyone who watched that speech has a chance to hear her say that. For the right-wing commentariat, it was a Katrina moment. It was a benchmark for how out of it and, well, disgusting, that crowd is. It established a baseline for magisterial condescension, for blindness, for night-is-day, for the gulf between Republican dead-enders and the rest of the country. Even though she's dared criticize George W. Bush, presumably to fashion a life preserver for her credibility, Peggy was more than willing to tell the speech's morning-after audience that they should believe her, and not their lying eyes.
And oh, those wacky sob-story Democrats with their unemployment and their freak-show kids. I mean, what country are they living in -- Katrinaville? Iraqland?
Thanks, Peggy, for telling it like it really is -- which is to say, for telling it like you, and your Party, really are.
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Can we all start referring to the Republican's 2008 candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America as "McSame"?
...Just to bug the Pachyderms?
Even though the writer concedes the points of Noonan's criticism of The One's speech, or at least doesn't address them, he gets in some personal attacks on conservatives and those evil enough to not be part of the HuffPo Hard Left.
Keep it up and out there!
Amerikkka needs to hear more from the Cindy Sheehan-Michael Moore-George Soros-Jumah Carter branch of the party - really the trunk now.
As The Hessiah moves to the center in s shrewd cynical manner, we need to be reminded who really wants him in there!
Brao!
.... some consistency would be a good idea here. There is a great deal of difference between not addressing a point and conceding a point. Since no points were conceded throughout the article one cannot reasonably suggest that the writer agreed with all of them. It may be much more reasonable to recognize that the points were so obvious no further comments were needed.
"he gets in some personal attacks on conservatives and those evil enough to not be part of the HuffPo Hard Left."
.... Actually if you look at the article again he mentions three people who were inane, rude, and childish. No evil was brought up, not even alluded to. Maybe you're overly sensitive, but to most people professionals in the media giggling and cracking childish jokes is at least disrespectful and usually shows a lack of understanding. Not unlike a bunch of ten year olds poking each other and giggling through a movie that they can't comprehend. That was my take on it.
It's no wonder PN campaigned for Bush. PN also was Ronald Reagan's speech writer, plus elder Bush, too. She coined the phrases: "Read My Lips" and "A Kinder, gentler nation."
The media will continue to slide away from the issues, and its punditocracy will portray Obama as effete and condescending. All the while McCain's many, many gaffes and lapses will be covered up or under-reported. I don't know how they'll manage to explain away the fact that Obama fills stadiums while McCain can barely fill a corner doughnut shop, but I'm confident that they'll find a way.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but I'm terribly afraid that I'm not. If ever Hillary Clinton in full-on attack mode was needed, it's during the next few weeks. She's the one person in the Democratic Party who can expose Palin for the Stepford Wife she is without being accused of sexism and bullying, and Noonan & Company will have a hard time countering her.
Peggy Noonen seems to embody that role.
Obama/Biden '08!!!
The fun part has been watching the Republican pundits try to explain how Palin is qualified.