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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeggy Noonan: USA Is Divided Because Obama Is “Out There Dropping His G’s”
The Wall Street Journal columnist says the country can't come together until the president starts enunciating properly. Peggy Noonan is worried about America. Again. The Wall Street Journal columnists newest worry arises, as is so often the case, from a conversation this week with an acquaintance of considerable accomplishment in the political and financial worlds who thinks America is going to break apart into red and blue factions. I think a lot about the general subject of what deeply divides us, Noonan writes, occasionally with a feeling of some alarm.
Like any pundit worth her salt, Noonan assumes that her own personal sense of alarm is shared by the country as a whole, and after many paragraphs of gauzy ruminations on the nature of political division, she finally arrives at her point: No nations unity, cohesion and feeling of being at peace with itself can be taken for granted, even ours. They have to be protected day by day, in part by what politicians say. They shouldnt be making it worse. They shouldnt make divisions deeper. And who are we to blame specifically for these deepening divisions?
In just the past week that means: The president shouldnt be using a fateful and divisive word like impeachment to raise money and rouse his base. He shouldnt be at campaign-type rallies where he speaks only to the base, he should be speaking to the country. He shouldnt be out there dropping his gs, slouching around a podium, complaining about his ill treatment, describing his opponents with disdain: Stop just hatin all the time.
Ah, that divisive Obama, busting apart the countrys delicate sense of common unity by employing relaxed diction when chastising House Republicans for VOTING TO SUE HIM. That lawsuit was the ill treatment that Noonan apparently believes is a less of a contributor to the countrys intractable partisan divide than Obamas momentary dips into colloquial modes of speech. The larger point Obama made was that Republicans should be more constructive partners in the governing process. Given yesterdays embarrassing spectacle in which internal GOP divisions forced the leadership to cancel a vote on their border crisis legislation, you have to think the president might be on to something there. http://www.salon.com/2014/08/01/peggy_noonan_america_is_divided_because_obama_is_out_there_dropping_his_gs/
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)She should have been put out to pasture decades ago.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)breaking: President to be impeached for word crimes
randys1
(16,286 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)How does this pearl-clutching brittle old Reagan groupie still have a writing job?
panader0
(25,816 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Oops! Make that "handin'" out!
Noonan is SO yesterday and insignificant, she really doesn't matter, but she is one more voice to pound at the ears of the Red states to feed the hate and poison she and the rest of her ilk have been spewing every day.
I'm sick up to my eyeballs of these people. They think they can say horrible things about the POTUS, yet he is not to respond? You sure don't see many Democrats standing up for him, either. Not in the way they should. They give out a token comment, but nothing like they should. They should have been calling the RW out on their idiocy from Day 1.
Pe**y, can it!
louis-t
(23,295 posts)it's ok when boosh does it, it's ok when Phil the dumbass duck dynasty guy does it, it's ok when....
blm
(113,065 posts).
blm
(113,065 posts)for the greater part of her adult life?
Stallion
(6,475 posts)causing all this trouble Down South. Our "slaves" ah I mean African Americans were perfectly happy before them agitators showed up
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)nice soft walls. The place where the nuts hunt the squirrels, ha-ha!
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)I can not believe that anyone is listening to this lady
Avalux
(35,015 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)The undead walk amongst us.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,065 posts)He never dropped a G, an his pronunciation was always perfect.
alp227
(32,029 posts)Paladin
(28,264 posts)Anything that keeps you two from "writing" will be welcome.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)pass the red wine
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,840 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Be gone woman!
tanyev
(42,566 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)if you get my drift.
elias49
(4,259 posts)Smarmy self-important ass.