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Peggy Noonan and whether Obama should run for a second term
Island Turtle ^ | August 20, 2011 | Corky Boyd

Posted on 08/20/2011 10:50:58 PM PDT by Corky Boyd

In Friday’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan takes a look at President Obama’s Martha's Vineyard vacation and speculates on his thoughts in view of declining poll numbers, and disillusionment among his supporters.

"How could he not be depressed? He has made big mistakes since the beginning of his presidency and has been pounded since the beginning of his presidency. He's got to be full of doubts at this point about what to do. His baseline political assumptions have proved incorrect, his calculations have turned out to be erroneous, his big decisions have turned to dust...."

"Nothing worked! And nothing's going to work. He's the smartest guy in the room, but he's got the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to—well, unsatisfying outcomes."

But the article is more than failures and vacations. It questions whether Obama should continue to seek a second term. Indeed the subhead of the op-ed is, “Is his visit to Martha's Vineyard a sign that he's giving up?” She concludes her article with an ominous series of statements which are in reality questions for Obama to answer....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; obama; peggynoonan; secondterm
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To: Corky Boyd; Louis Foxwell; publana

21 posted on 08/20/2011 11:41:29 PM PDT by shibumi ("A Republic - if you can keep it.")
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To: Neanderthal

She swooned over his ‘oratory skills’ and took pot shots at McCain/Palin.


22 posted on 08/20/2011 11:43:10 PM PDT by Tempest (Ruining the day of corporate butt kissers everywhere.)
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To: Corky Boyd
I love this comment at the blog site:

Dantes said...
Excellent article???

Are you kidding me? Noonan has absolutely no credibility writing about Zero, having swooned over him in 2008 and deriding those people who saw right through his charade.

She would be at least somewhat credible if she admitted she screwed up royally in endorsing Obama. Here, as in most of her recent articles, she acts like she just got back from Mars and had no knowledge of Obama.

C'mon, dude. Get a clue.

23 posted on 08/20/2011 11:45:58 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Corky Boyd

he been pounded? He been excused and defended by the media every step of the way. If Bush went to war with Libya the way Obama did, Bush would be impeached 24/7 news on how bad Bush is and how he’s breaking the law and a war criminal


24 posted on 08/20/2011 11:47:58 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Corky Boyd

Noonan was another one who had tingles up her legs about te great Obama. She can go to hell.


25 posted on 08/20/2011 11:50:05 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Didn’t Peggy vote for Obama?”

Peggy Noonan and Christopher Buckley and Colin Powell


26 posted on 08/20/2011 11:51:44 PM PDT by Pelham ("Resist we much!" - Al 'Jiffypop' Sharpton)
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To: Corky Boyd
He's the smartest guy in the room, but he's got the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to—well, unsatisfying outcomes."

No, he's not the smartest guy in the room, he is the most incompetent, unaccomplished, zero experience in anything except for community agitating as commie pig radical.

In fact without his teleprompter, he is a stammering disorganized idiot who cannot effectively convey any sense of cohesive logic or argument.

I think Rush summarizes it best, when he says that any room that 0dumb0 enters, he will be the most incompetent, inexperienced person in the room.

Throw this commie pig bastard 0dumb0 out of office even BEFORE 2012.

27 posted on 08/20/2011 11:54:37 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: lonestar
He's the smartest guy in the room, but he's got the reverse Midas touch.

This sentence which you have cited tells us so much about Peggy Noonan.

The high point of her career was speechwriting for one of the best speech makers of all time, Ronald Reagan, and she narcissistically believes that the sine qua non of a great public leader is the quality of the speeches he renders. That is one of the reasons that she despises Sarah Palin, because she believes Sarah Palin's rustic delivery ad lib betrays a shallowness of intelligence.

Obama is not highly intelligent, he is a wordsmith who has simply mastered the art, chameleonlike, of rendering the tone and cadence that his audience wants. That is not a sign of intelligence beyond the ability to read the audience and play act.

Peggy should be far more concerned about what the man's biography, associations, and actions demonstrate about his character than what speech patterns illuminate about his intelligence. That goes for Sarah Palin too.

Peggy: the ability to make a speech is not necessarily an indicator of intelligence; character rather than intelligence is a cardinal prerequisite for president of the United States.


28 posted on 08/21/2011 12:09:17 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Pelham
Peggy Noonan and Christopher Buckley and Colin Powell

Don't forget The Kathleen Parker.

29 posted on 08/21/2011 12:20:40 AM PDT by FredZarguna (I'm sure the posed Christmas pics she took will convince Geraldo she's a loving mom.)
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To: nathanbedford

Everything he touches turns to Kenyan poop alright.

Health Care, Debt Ceiling, Taxing your way out of a Recession, eating Wagu beef and ice cream while to Country goes to hell.

FUBO and GTFO


30 posted on 08/21/2011 1:06:18 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: nathanbedford

spot on.


31 posted on 08/21/2011 1:08:20 AM PDT by steel_resolve
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To: Corky Boyd

Blog whores are as bad as media whores.


32 posted on 08/21/2011 1:11:39 AM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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To: Interesting Times
He's the smartest guy in the room... 30 months of relentless beatings with the clue stick hasn't been enough for Peggy.

LOL!


33 posted on 08/21/2011 1:14:42 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: Corky Boyd
Obama is never going to give up. He'll do what he has done in everything in his life.

He'll vote "present" if he is in town (which isn't very often).

34 posted on 08/21/2011 2:11:02 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (Where is the middle ground on insolvency of the United States government?)
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To: Corky Boyd

Noonan, sad to say, has been exposed as a DITZ...
Maybe a Harpocrite... or Stone Rino... or Posuer...

The girl has a “Valley Girl” sway about her..
A MAxine Waters while white... personage.. a HoodRat from a different HOod.. “stick”/act..


35 posted on 08/21/2011 2:53:06 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Corky Boyd
[0's] got to be full of doubts at this point about what to do.

No, Peggy.

0 had no clue about what to do beginning the minute his term began.

36 posted on 08/21/2011 3:27:22 AM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: lonestar

At the end of Psycho, Norman Bates is sitting in a room by himself and a fly.
He’s obviously NUTS.
Were this obammy, the fly would outsmart him.


37 posted on 08/21/2011 3:33:57 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy, the first affirmative action president.)
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To: Nitehawk0325

and Bite Me Biden will take over. lol

..one stupid move after another...


38 posted on 08/21/2011 4:13:44 AM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good..")
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To: Corky Boyd

I pay no attention whatsoever as to what Peg None-an has to say.


39 posted on 08/21/2011 4:16:44 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: lonestar
That would require a room full of idiots.

Or a room full of liberals.

40 posted on 08/21/2011 4:32:43 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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