Posted on 07/16/2010 2:02:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We start with the president's dreadful numbers. People in politics in America are too impressed by polls, of course, and talk about them too much. In this we're like a neurotic patient who constantly, compulsively takes his own temperature. We are political hypochondriacs. But polls offer the only hard quick data there is, and when the temperature-taking consistently shows a worsening condition—the fever is not breaking but rising—you have to admit a sickness. And so the polls, the most striking of which this week was CBS's, which says only 13% of Americans feel President Obama's economic plans have helped them. After all the money he and Congress have spent, you'd think it would be twice that.
Oh, let's not do polls, they all say what they said months ago: Mr. Obama is down. Here I write not of something people dislike—the administration and, by the way, the Republicans—but of something I think they want, may even deep down long for. By they I mean me. But I don't think I'm alone.
All right, you know what I think people miss when they look at Washington and our political leadership? They miss old and august. They miss wise and weathered. They miss the presence of bruised and battered veterans of life who've absorbed its facts and lived to tell the tale.
This is a nation—a world—badly in need of adult supervision. In the 50th anniversary commentary this week of Harper Lee's masterpiece, "To Kill A Mockingbird," a book long derided as middlebrow by middlebrows, no one fully noted the centrality, the cosmic force, that propelled the book, and that is the idea of the father. Of the human longing to be safe and watched over by one stronger.
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So Peggy wants Republicans to rerun McCain so she can vote for Obama again?
No Thanks.
Too many adults in power just don’t want to grow up.
Answer: People with weight are missed. Instead we have a bunch of EEOP's!
I don’t long to be watched over by someone stronger. I long to be left alone, and in that I believe I am not alone.
If adults were in charge, no one would know who Peggy Noonan is.
Hair flip, wry smile, five second pithy statement, turn toward the host.
What a sad, sad woman this Noonan is.
Peggy is showing her age when she claims that men in their forties and fifties are not adult. Her perceptions are so skewed in so many ways, but this column is ridiculous.
Also, I’d like to ask Peggy what she thinks of Bill Ayres, George Soros, and Rev Wright. They are all of the generation that she deems to be needed by our Dear Leader in the White House.
This article is also a pre-emptive hit at Sarah Palin.
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