Peggy Noonan on the president
Feb. 19th, 2004 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerin the Wall Street Journal
I remember reading one of her memoirs and finding it intelligent, engaging, and amusing. She's a good writer and a thoughtful person.
Which makes it a pity that she's so ready to perpetuate the stupid idea that there can only be smart people or practical people, no smart, practical people. Or that there's no middle ground, no reasonable, intelligent difference of opinion. It's so foolish to say that the question of foreign policy boils down to "[do you] support the effort in Iraq or do not."
But it's wonderful feel-good propaganda for Republicans. They can pat themselves on the back and say "We're for 'normal' folks, regular folks, honest, decent, everyday kind of folks. And those Democrats are just angry. They need to get over it." Yeah, the election is just about the Dem's being sore about losing the election to someone who didn't actually win it. It has nothing to do with the jobs lost, the lies, the caskets coming home, the sympathy for America turned over night into hatred and laothing, the buying of the environment and labor regulation by big business, the sole-source, high-profit contracts for the VP's former company. It's all just 'case the Dems are angry.
I remember reading one of her memoirs and finding it intelligent, engaging, and amusing. She's a good writer and a thoughtful person.
Which makes it a pity that she's so ready to perpetuate the stupid idea that there can only be smart people or practical people, no smart, practical people. Or that there's no middle ground, no reasonable, intelligent difference of opinion. It's so foolish to say that the question of foreign policy boils down to "[do you] support the effort in Iraq or do not."
But it's wonderful feel-good propaganda for Republicans. They can pat themselves on the back and say "We're for 'normal' folks, regular folks, honest, decent, everyday kind of folks. And those Democrats are just angry. They need to get over it." Yeah, the election is just about the Dem's being sore about losing the election to someone who didn't actually win it. It has nothing to do with the jobs lost, the lies, the caskets coming home, the sympathy for America turned over night into hatred and laothing, the buying of the environment and labor regulation by big business, the sole-source, high-profit contracts for the VP's former company. It's all just 'case the Dems are angry.
