Warren G Kerry - Peggy Noonan (Bush's term has been too "exciting?")

[BloodyWilliam]

So... Bush has done such a great and amazing job, (more than) half the country wants Kerry because we want life to be less exciting??? :wtf:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005288

<<Hand it to Mr. Bush: He's got guts. And whatever happens in the coming election, his administration will be remembered as one of the most consequential in modern political history. He did things, and they were all big and meaningful, and they will have implications for decades.>>

<<Here is my fear: that the American people, liking and respecting President Bush, and knowing he's a straight shooter with guts, will still feel a great temptation to turn to the boring and disingenuous John Kerry. He'll never do anything exciting. He doesn't have the guts to be exciting. And as he doesn't stand for anything, he won't have to take hard stands. He'll do things like go to France and talk French and they'll love it. He'll say he's the man who accompanied Teresa Heinz to Paris, only this time he'll say it in French and perfectly accented and they'll all go "ooh la la!">>

<<The American people may come to feel that George W. Bush did the job history sent him to do. He handled 9/11, turned the economy around, went into Afghanistan, captured and removed Saddam Hussein. And now let's hire someone who'll just by his presence function as an emollient. A big greasy one but an emollient nonetheless.>>:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[aquart]

1. Dear, loyal Peggy

Still selling Enron after the crash.

[StClone]

2. He was there when the chicken cart overturned

He made it even more exciting by starting the chicken on fire then juggling them. It was a most consequential time.

[MrBenchley]

3. Wow...she really doesn't care about credibility...

How many other "straight shooter with guts" run and hide when the country is attacked, then gets someone to hold his hand when he answers questions about that day behind closed doors?

"The American people may come to feel that George W. Bush did the job history sent him to do."
I'm sure Al Qaeda feels that way now....

"He handled 9/11"
How? He ignored the memo that said it was going to happen, he stiffed NYC cops and firemen on the money for help he promised afterwards, pissed all over our allies, let the guy who did it get away, blocked all investigation into the country that funded the guy who did it, fought hard to keep Americans from investigating what happened that day and now is dragging his feet on doing anything to prevent another one.

[RobertSeattle]

4. FYI - Article is from 7/1/2004

Just before the holiday so I think this one kind of went "under the radar" when it came out.

If you really want to see some fellow Noonan loons, read some of the responses:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/responses.html?article_id=110005288


My Fear
Betsy Jackson - Flower Mound, Texas

I'm horribly, horribly afraid that you're right. We need President Bush to continue the tasks set before him; but I'm afraid that America won't realize that and we'll end up with Sen. Kerry to undo all the work President Bush has done. It frightens me.

:puke:

[pbg]

5. Wait...

I thought that it was John Kerry the brainy elite guy versus GWB the plain simple ordinary guy...?

Now it's boring versus exciting?

Geebus, it's like watching a bad improv group in a workshop.

[Fenris]

6. Here's a quick deconstruction of W.'s accomplishments

"The American people may come to feel that George W. Bush did the job history sent him to do.

History sends no man to do a job, the public does. And besides, I thought W was divinely picked to rule America?

"He handled 9/11..."

If by "handled" you mean ignored numerous warning signs and used it as a justification for implementation of a radical political agenda.

"...turned the economy around..."

By not doing anything about it, a la Herbert Hoover. But he did give the investor class two huge tax cuts. Hooray!

"...went into Afghanistan..."

Where he proceeded to lose bin Laden when he had him cornered. Oh, and he abandoned it the second Iraq became do-able. By the way, Peggy, didn't you get the Whte House memo? Afghanistan is so 2002. Don't bring it up.

"...captured and removed Saddam Hussein."

For no reason other than "this is the guy who tried to kill my dad," apparently. The President should know better than to use the sons and daughters of America to carry out a family vendetta. When the WMD justification fell through, he, and by extension us, was left with a gigantic albatross around his neck. That's leadership.

[ronatchig]

7. I am not familiar with

this Noonan hag but talk about stoopid insipid drivel, and in bad need of a -oh well let me drag out that anger management literature again

[struggle4progress]

8. Noonan drools on cue. eom

[rfkrocks]

9. peggy noonan=love child of spiro agnew

[yellowcanine]

10. Noonan is laying the groundwork for a Bush loss - for true believers such

as herself what they like even less than losing is to be surprised by the loss and to not have an "acceptable" explanation for it (read "spin"). So she is laying to groundwork to blame the American People's lack of imagination for Bush losing - she can't accept the notion that Bush might lose because he is a total screw-up.

[Selwynn]

11. Hilarious!

[PATRICK]

12. So who thinks

the GOP convention will be exciting and substantive with star orators and diverse throngs of excited delegates. Or that Bush will be exciting unless he falls off the stage, or if Cheney is microwaved so that a distracting nice Veep can shove him aside?

[Mountainman]

13. Peggy Noonan must be Rush's bitch.

She says the same lame stuff he does. Nothing either of them says has any resemblance to reality.
All it is, is pablum for freepers and the like. She spoon feeds them the fantasy that their life has real meaning because they believe in something even though it is only a myth.

This kind of BS is getting real funny to read since so many people believe just the opposite.

[yellowcanine]

14. No,no,no,no,no! Bad mind picture! Stop it! We are eating lunch here.

.

[depakid]

15. Old Chinese curse- may you live in interesting times

Poor Peggy doesn't see the irony.

[Batgirl]

16. "He'll never do anything exciting."?!?!???

Exciting in what way? You mean like when our crazy Uncle Georgie took us joyriding, and he drove with his knees so he could drink Mad Dog and take hits off his crack pipe, and he screamed "nice rack!" when we drove past those nuns, then we went up on the curb and took out that hotdog vendor before we rolled down the hill and when we landed at the bottom of the gorge there was a giant fireball? Exciting like that?

She sounds like a disappointed five year old.

[noiretextatique]

17. she finally lost the few marbles she had left

:boring: