They've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (Peggy Noonan)

WSJ ^ | 7/29/2011 | Peggy Noonan

[BuckeyeTexan]

The fact is, he's good at dismantling. He's good at critiquing. He's good at not being the last guy, the one you didn't like. But he's not good at building, creating, calling into being. He was good at summoning hope, but he's not good at directing it and turning it into something concrete that answers a broad public desire.

Exactly, Peggy. And he told everyone that in 2005 when he said, and I quote, "The kind of education I received makes you confident in your ability to understand problems—not necessarily to have good answers but at least understand the nature of the questions."

Barack Obama doesn't have the ability to provide solutions. He has only the ability to analyze the problem and complain about the solutions that others provide.

[BuckeyeTexan]

The fact is, he's good at dismantling. He's good at critiquing. He's good at not being the last guy, the one you didn't like. But he's not good at building, creating, calling into being. He was good at summoning hope, but he's not good at directing it and turning it into something concrete that answers a broad public desire.

Exactly, Peggy. And he told everyone that in 2005 when he said, and I quote, "The kind of education I received makes you confident in your ability to understand problems—not necessarily to have good answers but at least understand the nature of the questions."

Barack Obama doesn't have the ability to provide solutions. He has only the ability to analyze the problem and complain about the solutions that others provide.

[COUNTrecount]

Hey Peggy,

Barry is doing exactly what he planned to do to this

country.Many of us sounded the alarm when we first saw him

and read about his qualifications. We are not surprised at

all.

Too bad you got fooled.

P.S. There’s no Santa Clause either. Deal.

[Interesting Times]

But, I think old Peg is a good windsock in this instance. As one of the biggest Obama fawners, she is now calling him a “loser”.

Peggy Windsock. I like it.

[The Shrew]

I remember when you were swooning like a bobby-soxer over The Guy With So Many Teeth.

At that time, you were probably so buzzed with booze and 'bama that you didn't notice that there were no long-term friends of Obama, no girlfriends, nobody who could even remember him from Columbia. We out in Flyover noticed and knew. No proud professors. No affectionate neighbors. His only friend, Jarrett, seems to function as a kind of nanny.

Nothing but an endless line of grifters who held the next door open for The Guy With So Many Teeth.

Posting this to you will serve to remind me that I, once again, read a Peggy Noonan article, but, it was worth it to post this: You write well. Keep it up.

TS

[MayflowerMadam]

Some good lines in her article. Still, hard to take her seriously when, during Obama’a campaign, she experienced the female equivalent to Matthews’ “tingle up his leg”.

Now this? What... did she go on the wagon or something?

[chickadee]

I had one of those “grim” Obama supporter incidents again yesterday. Obama’s name came up and the lib said, “who else would you want to be President” (as if PeeWee Herman couldn’t do a better job, lol.) Since the person was cranky and on the verge of rage, I let the matter drop.