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The Obama Contradiction [PEGGY NOONAN]
WSJ ^ | January 29,2010 | PEGGY NOONAN

Posted on 01/29/2010 10:57:44 AM PST by ColdOne

When you watch a president give a State of the Union Address on television, you're always watching three people: the president at the podium, and the vice president and House speaker on the rise behind him. As a TV shot it's awkward. The vice president and the speaker have been instructed by media professionals not to let their eyes do what they want to do, which is survey the doings in the chamber. Instead they must stare unwaveringly at the back of the president's head. This is so that they appear to be fascinated by what he's saying, as if he's so interesting that they can't take their eyes off him. It's also so that you, the viewer, don't become distracted by wondering whom they're looking at in the audience.

It's uncomfortable for them, and boring. You, as a member of the TV audience, get to watch the president. The speaker and the vice president get to think, "Huh, he's getting a little gray in the back." The reason Nancy Pelosi often seems a little dart-eyed in these circumstances is that she's always trying to get a look at the chamber when she thinks the camera isn't on her. Joe Biden seems happy to be the fascinated person with crinkly eyes and shining teeth. But for Mrs. Pelosi it's a challenge. This is her chamber, all her people are here, and she wants to be looking at John Boehner's face and Harry Reid's and see who's cheering and who's wearing what.

But the three-shot the other night was also the

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1 posted on 01/29/2010 10:57:44 AM PST by ColdOne
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“But for Mrs. Pelosi it’s a challenge. This is her chamber, all her people are here, and she wants to be looking at John Boehner’s face and Harry Reid’s and see who’s cheering and who’s wearing what.”

HER chamber...HER people...who’s wearing what...sick, sick, sick


2 posted on 01/29/2010 11:01:36 AM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: ColdOne

Peggy Noonan:

1. Hates Sarah Palin
2. Cares about the Party Circuit
3. Elitist snob who long ago jumped the shark
4. Unworthy of having worked for Ronaldus Maximus
5. Often writes hyperFeminine, maudlin gobbledigook

I ENJOY DISLIKING PEGGY NOONAN


3 posted on 01/29/2010 11:03:29 AM PST by gaijin
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To: ColdOne
The first Peggy Noonan article I've read in a loooooong time.

Wasn't worth it. She has nothing to say.

4 posted on 01/29/2010 11:04:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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To: ColdOne

Well, it starts out well. I liked that bit about Joe Biden’s shining teeth. But it’s all downhill from there, except for that more or less irrelevant blast from the past, when Reagan said, “Jump.”


5 posted on 01/29/2010 11:05:22 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ColdOne
FTA They've chosen a phrase for the president's program. They call it the "New Foundation." They sneaked it in rather tentatively, probably not sure it would take off.

Do do a new foundation right, you must remove the old building, clear the rubble, poor a new foundation that is more suited to what you wish to build.

Scary huh?

6 posted on 01/29/2010 11:06:56 AM PST by listenhillary (FU Cass Sunstein - You are the embodiment of evil)
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To: ColdOne

It has been fun if sickening to see how the media droolers found ways to praise odumbo’s lackluster rant.

I wonder if Obama forgot he was black?


7 posted on 01/29/2010 11:07:25 AM PST by RWGinger
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More on that little rascal, Nancy: “...that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.”

source: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472


8 posted on 01/29/2010 11:07:41 AM PST by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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Do do = To do

sigh.


9 posted on 01/29/2010 11:07:53 AM PST by listenhillary (FU Cass Sunstein - You are the embodiment of evil)
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To: gaijin

Noonan was one of the orignal Vichy Republicans.


10 posted on 01/29/2010 11:08:28 AM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: choctaw man

I just read that article.. These people think they are Gods and it must stop...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440226/posts


11 posted on 01/29/2010 11:11:18 AM PST by ColdOne (:^))
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To: gaijin

“Elitist snob who long ago jumped the shark”

I think a RINO jumper her bones.

Noonan’s brain died about the same time Reagan’s did.


12 posted on 01/29/2010 11:11:47 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINO's!)
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To: listenhillary

When talking about Obama the Unready and NAnZI Pelosi, “do do” is quite appropriate.


13 posted on 01/29/2010 11:12:26 AM PST by choirboy
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Well ... Peggy ...you could have seen all this in 08 but you were busy creaming in your pants for the child wonder Obama...


14 posted on 01/29/2010 11:13:02 AM PST by RED SOUTH
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To: ColdOne

PEGGY GO AWAY YOU ARE IRRELEVANT!!!

I don’t care what you say you are one of them...


15 posted on 01/29/2010 11:14:01 AM PST by Three if by government
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*** 3. Elitist snob who long ago jumped the shark

I ENJOY DISLIKING PEGGY NOONAN ***

Count me in. Peggy Noonan’s drivel isn’t worth the read. She’s unfocused, and more than just a little pleased with herself. She’s at home on MSNBC with all the other nutjobs.


16 posted on 01/29/2010 11:15:39 AM PST by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: ColdOne

Peg, if your friend is looking for an adult in the Oval Office for the next few years, he’s SOL.


17 posted on 01/29/2010 11:16:24 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: gaijin

Peggy wants to be welcome in “the right circles.”


18 posted on 01/29/2010 11:21:32 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: ColdOne

And Barry can trash people sitting directly in front of him (SCOTUS) and NEVER look their way.


19 posted on 01/29/2010 11:27:57 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: listenhillary

New Foundation? Is Barack getting Michelle a new girdle?


20 posted on 01/29/2010 11:34:47 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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