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PEGGY NOONAN: Why Obama's State of the Union Speech Will Be Unusually Good (Barf Alert!!!)
FOX News.com ^ | January 22, 2011 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 01/22/2011 3:38:47 PM PST by Kaslin

The State of the Union Address is usually among the most important and least memorable of presidential speeches. The speech itself, in an august setting, is an opportunity for a president to break through in a new way. TV and radio carry it live, and it's hard for the average citizen to avoid seeing at least a piece of it. It's a real chance for a White House to tell the American people "This is where we stand, this is why we are here, this is what we believe in."

But most State of the Unions don't measure up. They get beaten down by the staffing process and flattened by the laundry-list aspects: "We'll do this and this and this." There's always too much going on in the speech, and in the end it's usually, in Churchill's phrase, a pudding without a theme.

The State of the Union Address is usually among the most important and least memorable of presidential speeches. The speech itself, in an august setting, is an opportunity for a president to break through in a new way. TV and radio carry it live, and it's hard for the average citizen to avoid seeing at least a piece of it. It's a real chance for a White House to tell the American people "This is where we stand, this is why we are here, this is what we believe in."

But most State of the Unions don't measure up. They get beaten down by the staffing process and flattened by the laundry-list aspects: "We'll do this and this and this." There's always too much going on in the speech, and in the end it's usually, in Churchill's phrase, a pudding without a theme.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: noonan4dnc; noonan4obama; noonan4romney; noonanforbugsbunny; noonanhelpsobama; peggynoonan
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1 posted on 01/22/2011 3:38:50 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hate to break it to you Peggy but not too many people will tuning in.


2 posted on 01/22/2011 3:40:32 PM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Kaslin

Follow up speech: Why Peggy Noonan blows chunks.


3 posted on 01/22/2011 3:41:06 PM PST by SAJ (Zerobama -- a phony and a prick, therefore a dildo.)
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To: DarthVader
I wish she would just...shut....up.
4 posted on 01/22/2011 3:41:15 PM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Kaslin
I can't believe anyone follows this aging, air-headed, fawning bimbo.
5 posted on 01/22/2011 3:41:20 PM PST by bwc2221 (.)
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To: Kaslin

Hey Peggy - most of us care how America is doing...not how some speech went over.


6 posted on 01/22/2011 3:43:17 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Kaslin
GET A ROOM!!!
7 posted on 01/22/2011 3:43:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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To: Kaslin

I see Peggy is planning on viewing the speech from under Obamas podium.


8 posted on 01/22/2011 3:43:51 PM PST by digger48
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To: Kaslin

Its hard to imagine that a decade ago I would read anything she wrote.

Now she just seems like a caricature of a caricature.


9 posted on 01/22/2011 3:43:58 PM PST by marron
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To: Kaslin

Your “barf alert” was redundant, my FRiend.


10 posted on 01/22/2011 3:44:23 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Kaslin
Its hard to imagine that a decade ago

OK, maybe its been longer than a decade...

11 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:07 PM PST by marron
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To: DarthVader

I certainly won’t and I won’t watch Bill O’Reilly’s interview either on Superbowl Sunday


12 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:07 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
Peggy, you're nothing to me now. You're not a sister, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you on television, or read what you write. I don't want you near any conservative conferences. When you see my friends, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?

With apologies to Michael Corleone.

13 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:15 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Kaslin
A prediction: President Obama's speech will be unusually good. Why? Because he's showing signs of understanding that if you say something simply, clearly and sparingly, it can stick.

Hey Piggy. Where exactly is there evidence of him choosing words sparingly? This article is just more evidence of you doing crack.

14 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:27 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: FReepers
The Wolves Are At The Door!

Stop Them With The Truth

Donate To Free Republic

15 posted on 01/22/2011 3:45:47 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Kaslin
and it's hard for the average citizen to avoid seeing at least a piece of it
Perhaps, but I don't find it difficult at all.
16 posted on 01/22/2011 3:46:31 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Kaslin
Yea, right 0 will be the big budget cutter and deficit hawk.
17 posted on 01/22/2011 3:47:08 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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To: Kaslin
Sheesh. Menopause is not being kind to this woman. I think she needs some medicine.
18 posted on 01/22/2011 3:47:12 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Kaslin

A 1,000 points of trite!


19 posted on 01/22/2011 3:47:35 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Kaslin

Another Peggy O-gasm.


20 posted on 01/22/2011 3:47:43 PM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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