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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeggy trashes all. Obama tired and stale. good sign?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443686004577636443448520330.html?KEYWORDS=peggy+noonanBarack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what he's thinking. His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There's too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat. He was somber, and his message was essentially banal: We've done better than you think. Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
There were many straw men. There were phrases like "the shadow of a shuttered steel mill," which he considers writerly. But they sound empty and practiced now, like something you've heard in a commercial or an advertising campaign.
It was stale and empty. He's out of juice.
His daughters have grown beautiful.
As for Joe Biden, I love him and will hear nothing against him. He's like Democrats the way they used to be, and by that I do not mean idiotic, I mean normalmanipulative only to a normal degree, roughly aware of the facts of normal life, alert to and even respecting of such normal things as religious faith. I wish he did not insist on referring to his wife as "Dr. Jill Biden." I'm sure she has many doctorates, but so do half the unemployed in Manhattan.
much more trashing at link
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Who does Utah have this weekend? Should be a good weekend for the Pac-12. A UCLA upset would be icing on the cake. Although UofA is going to take an asswhopping.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)But, like I said, that was all the way back in the 80s. She's done nothing since.
Utah plays up at Utah State tonight (Friday) on ESPN2. Should be a good game.
I don't think Washington has much chance against LSU, but UCLA could give Nebraska a scare.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)a wad now.....
all things. ALL things are personal
perhaps she only has a future job if RobMe gets in
speedoo
(11,229 posts)She only wishes she could write a speech one tenth as good as what we heard tonight.
Never liked her, but now I think she has lost her marbles.. Stupid hag.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)a long time ago.
I think she wrote the 'it's morning in america' speech.
MADem
(135,425 posts)It was UNSEEMLY, her gushing. Very off-putting. She sounded like she was Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, at times. Nancy Reagan probably felt like the bunny and that's why she didn't seem to care for the woman.
Creepy, creepy person.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)calimary
(81,261 posts)"Weirdly anticlimactic? "The crowd was tired?" "It all fell flat?" "He was somber?" "Stale and empty?"
Truly - peggy must still think she's in Tampa or something. Or still kneeling in front of the ghost of ronald reagan or something.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Remember this time she got caught?:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/03/peggy-noonan-mike-murphy_n_123647.html
Her public persona is bullshit and she knows it.
She's just telling her wingnut audience what she thinks they want to hear. She knows the DNC wiped the floor with the RNC, but she'll never admit it on camera.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Peggy Noonan is such a nonentity, her drivel is about as relevant as any drool that comes out of Ann Coulter's mouth. There are writers who could pull hit pieces like this off like the late Christopher Hitchens, but not this dried up bag of old oats.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Have an iota of kindred spirit with her because she and I both went through a post-911 trauma. Hers was worse than mine
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,614 posts)Her trashing all our great speakers spoke volumes..........about her.
She's no idiot, but boy did she ever misinterpret what we said.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)on our team -- who wouldn't but the worst cynic - or the biggest dumbell.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)I read up until she said the crowd was tired, and it all felt flat. What is she high, or does she have the Obama speech mixed up with Rmoneys snore fest?
TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)The GOP are all going to say over and over Obama and us Dems are tired because THEY are exhausted fighting for a guy they don't love.
malaise
(268,993 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,724 posts)Peggy tries to sound sooo deep and profound . . . just another windbag.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)empty and out of juice. She must be blowing on about herself.
longship
(40,416 posts)She didn't even watch tonight but took half an Ambien and wrote her review.
A brain is a horrible thing to waste.
Ptew!
politicasista
(14,128 posts)She needs to be exposed. What she said about Sarah Palin was a trip.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)"deeply overexposed and often boring. She never seems to be saying what she's thinking. Her columns are weirdly anticlimactic. We are tired of her whining, it always all feels flat. Her message is essentially banal: Barack Obama yadda, failed yadda, apologizing for America yadda....
She is talking about herself.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)standingtall
(2,785 posts)She said she says she loves Joe Biden. Let's see first they try, and drive a wedge between Obama and Clinton. That didn't work. So now their trying for Joe. What are they stupid? Who's next? Michelle?
MADem
(135,425 posts)GOP-SHILL, please!!! She's crusty and nasty and WAY past her sell-by date. Her mooning prose is beyond lame--it's gotten to the point where "dumbass shit" doesn't even scratch the surface of how bad her crap is.
It's pretty clear that after all these years, she still wants to dig up Saint Ronnie and violate his corpse....that is one sick woman. I don't think Nancy Reagan cared for her at all, and who could blame her?
And what's with the junior-high jealously over Dr. Jill Biden's title? We KNOW that is what it is. Dr. Jill Biden wants to be called Dr. Jill Biden, and Miss Thang here just needs to deal with the fact that she doesn't have a jazzy title of her own.
I guess there's no way to abbreviate "Wingnut Sycophant" and make it sound like anything resembling an actual salutation!!!
There's a word for Poopy Noooo-in....but it's not used in polite society!
That splash I heard was Poopy jumping the shark....
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)need your $10
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021285933
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)SHE is the stale and tired one.
Ugh.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Noonan has been a nobody for twenty years now, except the on the Inside The Beltway Cocktail Circuit, where they still think it is they, and only they that shape political opinion in this country.
The Internet is making people like her irrelevant to the political discourse.
Cha
(297,207 posts)shit sandwich that is the republicon ticket.
RandySF
(58,806 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She knows that President Obama is a great writer, a wonderful orator, and one of the best statesman to appear in Washington in over half of a century.
He doesn't need a bunch of speech writers to write his speeches for him.
They're his own, with his own trademark phrases, timing, and pace.
Peggy is about as much of a 'has been' as any political has been has ever been in Washington ever before.
She's irrelevant.
She is even more irrelevant than George Will.
Raine
(30,540 posts)NBachers
(17,108 posts)She's propping up their failing, patched-up illusions; in return they help her feel relevant.
It's an ill relationship of dwindling corpse-beings
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still_one
(92,190 posts)going on the offense.
To fix the problems YOUR republican party got us into peggy
underpants
(182,800 posts)She should watch the RNC convention - it was nothing but straw men.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I feel for her
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Or is her face just always stuck that way?
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