Peggy Noonan: what I saw at the evacuation

[Cocoa]

They should use Peggy in an anti-marijuana campaign. Kids read this column, get scared straight.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110005264

June 9, 2004, approximately 5 p.m., U.S. Capitol:

What I was thinking was: Everyone here brought their souls. We are all these physical repositories of ourselves, of our characters and personalities and ambitions. But everybody is a soul, has a soul, and all these people gathered for the funeral of the great man of their lives, and they brought their souls.

I tell you this because it somehow has to do with what followed.
Many, not all, were aging or old. They had run the country 20 and 30 years ago. They had lived lives of import and meaning. But they were not this afternoon their official selves, their old formal selves, but something else.

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:smoke:

[Fenris]

1. I thought she was going to fucking throw herself into the casket

Like the women in Viking funerals who would throw themselves on their husband's funeral pyre.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

2. please, stop! this is pornography!!

Yeccchh! Uck! What filthy drivel!!

Besides the crass attempts to paint Bill Bennett as a family man ( " ... and his wife, Elaine") and assert that the conniving Jim Baker is a "pragmatist," Miss Magic Dolphin managed to offend the historical record -- and take a dig at Gore -- in a more substantive way:

"In 1960 had refused to contest an eminently contestable presidential election because he didn't want to put the country through it, he felt it was the wrong thing to do."

A lie, perpetuated for two generations by Nixon apologists. Under the radar, he allowed minions to spend the better part of the next few weeks trying to undermine the unofficial election results:

http://slate.msn.com/id/91350/

[yellowcanine]

3. I will not read anything by Peggy Nooner. Her writing sickens me.

She either writes political hack hit pieces or political hack puff pieces, sometimes puts both types in the same article and wraps it all up in pseudo religious mystical drivel.

[hatrack]

4. "Evacuation" is about right

Speaking of which, I'm off to use the bathroom - and I can't think of a more appropriate comment on Noonan's "writing".

[Cocoa]

5. lol

What I smelled at Peggy Noonan's evacuation. :-)

[struggle4progress]

6. What a loathsome group! I had completely forgotten ...

... about Jeane Kirkpatrick's demonic justification of the administration's support for death squad governments: "There is a difference between totalitarian governments and authoritarian governments and we must acknowledge it." Trust Peggy Noonan to gush over such matters with a sentimental sigh. :puke:

[Skittles]

7. Peggy is a republican whore

an extreme case

[Miss Authoritiva]

8. The body has landed: Reagan's funeral (part 93) : A parody

Not that I thought about this at the time because I was too giddy with excitement, but what I later pretended to be thinking was this: Everyone here has lost his soul. Moi and my soulless friends are physical repositories of our self-importance, bloated yet insatiable egos, and blind ambitions. And all of us have gathered for the funeral of the preternaturally optimistic and undeniably mediocre man to whom we owed our professional lives, and once again we brought with us our self-importance, bloated yet insatiable egos, and blind ambitions.

I tell you this because it somehow has nothing to do with what followed.

We were all aging or old, and just as strikingly incompetent as we always had been. We had screwed up the country 20 and 30 years ago. We had lived snarky little lives of privilege and avarice. But we were not this afternoon our officious selves, our old elitist selves, but something else.

Now we were has-beens.

[Cocoa]

10. wow

fantastic parody! :toast:

[Manix]

9. ..what drivel....she is a pompous ass!!

[swinney]

11. Peggy Noonan suck these 68 Lemons.

--------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)

(Peggy Noonan pay attention)

1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER” .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with ALZHIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter
yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.


62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”
65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS.

------------------------------------ THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE-------------------------------------------
Clarence Swinney—Burlington NC.—[e-mail]