Comments on: Peggy Noonan: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:34:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Cyra Brown http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-516482 Cyra Brown Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:31:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-516482 Is it to much to hope that some 'Dreamer' was 'emotional' on some carefully preserved garment, somewhere? GROSS!!! I do apologize, but I just HAD to say it!! Is it to much to hope that some ‘Dreamer’ was ‘emotional’ on some carefully preserved garment, somewhere? GROSS!!! I do apologize, but I just HAD to say it!!

]]> By: Bush Bites http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-515923 Bush Bites Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:13:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-515923 #9. That's a good point. Hell, if we just kept calling Bush part of "Reagan's legacy," the Reaganites themselves would destroy Bush. They hate him representing their man now that his failure is becoming evident. She's right, though: The Bushies used to brag in the first term that they "didn't manage events, they made them." Being a "change agent" is all well and good, but if you throw yourself into every cauldron, you very quickly lose perspective and judgment, and just wind up roiling with every new event instead of having the clear-headedness to pick the spots where you get the most benefit for the cost. #9. That’s a good point. Hell, if we just kept calling Bush part of “Reagan’s legacy,” the Reaganites themselves would destroy Bush. They hate him representing their man now that his failure is becoming evident.

She’s right, though: The Bushies used to brag in the first term that they “didn’t manage events, they made them.” Being a “change agent” is all well and good, but if you throw yourself into every cauldron, you very quickly lose perspective and judgment, and just wind up roiling with every new event instead of having the clear-headedness to pick the spots where you get the most benefit for the cost.

]]> By: Mocha Dem http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-514582 Mocha Dem Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:12:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-514582 This was my favorite part of article - I laughed out loud "The president has taken, those around him say, great comfort in biographies of previous presidents. All presidents do this. They all take comfort in the fact that former presidents now seen as great were, in their time, derided, misunderstood, underestimated. No one took the measure of their greatness until later. This is all very moving, but: Message to all biography-reading presidents, past present and future: Just because they call you a jackass doesn't mean you're Lincoln." This was my favorite part of article – I laughed out loud

“The president has taken, those around him say, great comfort in biographies of previous presidents. All presidents do this. They all take comfort in the fact that former presidents now seen as great were, in their time, derided, misunderstood, underestimated. No one took the measure of their greatness until later. This is all very moving, but: Message to all biography-reading presidents, past present and future: Just because they call you a jackass doesn’t mean you’re Lincoln.”

]]> By: GURU^ http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-514540 GURU^ Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:07:40 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-514540 # 5 Pete: I can't figure out if you're being funny or nasty. # 5 Pete:
I can’t figure out if you’re being funny or nasty.

]]> By: Paul in Mexico http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-514208 Paul in Mexico Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:37:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-514208 <em>Reports are coming out of the White House that no one can convince Georgie Porgie of anything. He refuses to listen to advice from ANYONE. He has already had a run-in with his new pet project, Bolten, who is trying to tell him he must get in front of the people and tell them the truth about a myriad of things. This whole shakeup was Roves idea, and it seems that Bushie Boy is not even listening to his old partner in crime.</em> Reports are coming out of the White House that no one can convince Georgie Porgie of anything. He refuses to listen to advice from ANYONE.

He has already had a run-in with his new pet project, Bolten, who is trying to tell him he must get in front of the people and tell them the truth about a myriad of things.

This whole shakeup was Roves idea, and it seems that Bushie Boy is not even listening to his old partner in crime.

]]> By: Paul in Mexico http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-514203 Paul in Mexico Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:35:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-514203 <em>Reports are coming out of the White House that no one can convince Georgie Porgie of anything. He refuses to listen to advice from ANYONE. He has already had a run-in with his new pet project, Bolten, who is trying to tell him he must get in front of the people and tell them the truth about a myriad of things.</em> Reports are coming out of the White House that no one can convince Georgie Porgie of anything. He refuses to listen to advice from ANYONE.

He has already had a run-in with his new pet project, Bolten, who is trying to tell him he must get in front of the people and tell them the truth about a myriad of things.

]]> By: Jane E. Schneider http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-514004 Jane E. Schneider Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:39:14 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-514004 Alan, #9, you would have been more surprised if you had seen her on Colbert, she was all tricked out in a leather outfit! Hmmm, dreamy spurt....(Homer drools) Alan, #9, you would have been more surprised if you had seen her on Colbert, she was all tricked out in a leather outfit!

Hmmm, dreamy spurt….(Homer drools)

]]> By: calif4nian http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513893 calif4nian Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:17:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513893 Republicans are starting to hate America too? Seriously, now that he's tanking and the incompetence and corrpution are too obvious to be ignored, we're hearing some on the right speak up. Keep 'em coming. Republicans are starting to hate America too? Seriously, now that he’s tanking and the incompetence and corrpution are too obvious to be ignored, we’re hearing some on the right speak up. Keep ‘em coming.

]]> By: barfly http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513864 barfly Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:02:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513864 <em>The dreamy just spurt along on emotions.</em> Is she talking about her own gushy past efforts? Sure sounds ironic coming from Peg. The dreamy just spurt along on emotions.

Is she talking about her own gushy past efforts? Sure sounds ironic coming from Peg.

]]> By: Wisco http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513811 Wisco Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:34:31 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513811 That last bit about 'the dreamy' is odd. The administration is run by a bunch of moonie utopians. The neocon philosophy is just a dreamy idealism. To compare the Bush administration with 'the dreamy' is comparing apples to apples. -- <a href="http://griperblade.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://griperblade.blogspot.com</a> - grumblings from the heartland That last bit about ‘the dreamy’ is odd. The administration is run by a bunch of moonie utopians. The neocon philosophy is just a dreamy idealism. To compare the Bush administration with ‘the dreamy’ is comparing apples to apples.

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http://griperblade.blogspot.com – grumblings from the heartland

]]> By: Jack http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513714 Jack Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:58:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513714 It is a good assessment of this White House. But isn't Bush the leader of this administration, and thus these are the people he has brought (remember he doesn't appoint for talent, he appoints for loyalty and political favoritism), and didn't Peggy Noonan help Bush in the 2004 election. It is a good assessment of this White House. But isn’t Bush the leader of this administration, and thus these are the people he has brought (remember he doesn’t appoint for talent, he appoints for loyalty and political favoritism), and didn’t Peggy Noonan help Bush in the 2004 election.

]]> By: pbg http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513677 pbg Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:45:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513677 Krazny: you mean they cherry-picked the part about dreamy spurting?? I'm sorry: I just can't stand it.... Krazny:
you mean they cherry-picked the part about dreamy spurting??

I’m sorry: I just can’t stand it….

]]> By: Krazny http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513627 Krazny Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:27:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513627 I would like to see the whole article by noonan, I am worried they are leaving some stuff out and cherry picking the parts where she slams bush. I would like to see the whole article by noonan, I am worried they are leaving some stuff out and cherry picking the parts where she slams bush.

]]> By: Alan http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513618 Alan Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:23:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513618 > ever since she went on the Colbert Report and Colbert > asked her: “What’s the one thing in this second term > you look at that makes you think, ‘wow, I’m so glad I > helped him get re-elected’?” Oh, man. I missed that? Damn. Noonan is a real whackjob but I think what has really pushed her over the edge is Bush's posturing as Reagan's heir and screwing it up so bad. Old RR was and is her wet dream. > ever since she went on the Colbert Report and Colbert
> asked her: “What’s the one thing in this second term
> you look at that makes you think, ‘wow, I’m so glad I
> helped him get re-elected’?”

Oh, man. I missed that? Damn.

Noonan is a real whackjob but I think what has really pushed her over the edge is Bush’s posturing as Reagan’s heir and screwing it up so bad. Old RR was and is her wet dream.

]]> By: GSD http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513550 GSD Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:54:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513550 It's Noonan in America. -GSD It’s Noonan in America.

-GSD

]]> By: ElectricBassPlayer http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513540 ElectricBassPlayer Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:49:06 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513540 WHY DOES PEGGY NOONAN HATE AMERICA?! #3, at least she doesn't collect and display photographs of George W. Bush's hands, like Josh Bolten reportedly does. (Creepy to the max, huh? Eww!) WHY DOES PEGGY NOONAN HATE AMERICA?!

#3, at least she doesn’t collect and display photographs of George W. Bush’s hands, like Josh Bolten reportedly does. (Creepy to the max, huh? Eww!)

]]> By: Zookeeper http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513539 Zookeeper Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:48:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513539 One by one, they leave the chimp... One by one, they leave the chimp…

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513527 Pete Bogs Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:40:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513527 mmm... dreamy spurt... mmm… dreamy spurt…

]]> By: And28 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513522 And28 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:36:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513522 I think this has been coming ever since she went on the Colbert Report and Colbert asked her: "What's the one thing in this second term you look at that makes you think, 'wow, I'm so glad I helped him get re-elected'?" That question almost made her head explode. I think this has been coming ever since she went on the Colbert Report and Colbert asked her: “What’s the one thing in this second term you look at that makes you think, ‘wow, I’m so glad I helped him get re-elected’?” That question almost made her head explode.

]]> By: LeisureGuy http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/comment-page-1/#comment-513520 LeisureGuy Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:35:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/peggy-noonan/#comment-513520 This is the same Peggy Noonan who had such high praise for Bush as a thinker, a leader, a great man? This is the same Peggy Noonan who had such high praise for Bush as a thinker, a leader, a great man?

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