Posted on 09/24/2010 6:00:10 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
All anyone in America who cares about politics was talking about this week was the searing encounter that captured, in a way that hasn't been done before, the essence of the political moment we're in. When 2010 is reviewed, it will be the clip the producers pick to illustrate the president's disastrous fall.
It is Monday, Sept. 20, the middle of the day, in Washington. CNBC is holding a town hall for the president. A woman stands—handsome, dignified, black, a person with presence. She looks as if she may be what she turns out to be, an Obama supporter who in 2008 put up street signs, passed out literature and tried to win over co-workers. As she later told the Washington Post, "I was thinking that the people who were against him and didn't believe in his agenda were completely insane."
The president looked relieved when she stood. Perhaps he thought she might lob a sympathetic question that would allow him to hit a reply out of the park. Instead, and in the nicest possible way, Velma Hart lobbed a hand grenade.
"I'm a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran, and I'm one of your middle-class Americans. And quite frankly I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are." She said, "The financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family." She said, "My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot-dogs-and-beans era of our lives. But, quite frankly, it is starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we are headed."
What a testimony. And this is the president's base. He got that look ... (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Well said. I agree with all your points. But I am also a happy neanderthal.
For the record, I like the crotchety old muppet heckler guys too (though I never can remember their names).
Normally, if the excerpted portion of an article impresses me enough to picque my interest in the article I MIGHT click out to the article and read the rest. (Of course, lately I’m much more likely to click out to an IBD column than a WSJ column.) In this case, I was pretty unimpressed with Peggy’s premise, at least what could be seen of her premise from the excerpted portion of the column. However, if her overall point was that this mid-term election seems to be shaping up to eclipse the 1994 mid-term tsunami, I might reconsider.
THANK YOU!!! How I always forget I’ll never know. But I inevitably confuse the two.
Now you've done it. I can hardly wait for the CZJ pics. Thank you. This could be a FR first, the CZJ rule being imposed on a Peggy Noonan thread because Mo Do was mentioned.
Statler and Waldorf
Posting an article by Dame Noonan (read the iowahawk link in post #1 - hilarious) on FR is almost as dangerous as posting a favorable article about Slick Mitty!
Noonan is a single mother. And she’s out of touch.
In all of the conservative families that I know, both the mother and the father make joint decisions regarding the raising of their children. I cannot imagine how a functional family would operate, otherwise.
thank you.
Thank you.
Strict observance of the CZJ rule, wherever it might be invoked, seems prudent and advisable IMHO.
No sports car, unfortunately.
Noonan, quoting GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn, also correctly points to the outsize role of sincere, hard-working women in running the tea parties. And, dare I add, our gals are good looking and good company.
It’s to be expected that many on the left are disillusioned and now evidence “buyer’s remorse”. Their complaint is he didn’t go FAR ENOUGH. Notice the woman’s gripe isn’t ideological, or constitutional. She could care less what he is doing to the office of the Presidency. Or how his policies are undermining capitalism., free enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, and national sovereignty and national security. This woman’s gripe was economic. It’s the money. As in: “The husband and I thought you were going to do the reparations thing....ya’ know....makin’ all of us brothas and sistahs instant millionaires....instead we’re back to hot dogs and beans....” Remember—these were the voters who thought the government was finally going to give them what they were “entitled” to.
“And she can write. “
I would respectfully disagree. Her writing is HORRIBLE, IMO. It’s full of flowery sweetness that makes me positively GAG. Not to mention that she is often on the “wrong side” of important issues. She’s a sugary has-been.
Very true. She touches on voters becoming more plugged into DC and there's buyer's remorse with some who voted for a black man or voted against Bush, but she misses the fact that almost everyone can see redistribution doesn't create prosperity.
What this op-ed piece really was is Ms. Peggy using the "exhausted" incident as a pretext to get her feminist ya-ya's out. The last line shows it - "and the outcomes won't be controlled by the good ol' boys but by what she calls "the great new gals"".
Here’s an excellent excerpt:
“The media called 1994 “the year of the angry white male.” That was the year of the Republican wave that yielded a GOP House for the first time in 40 years. “I look at this year as the Rage of the Bill-Paying Moms,” Ms. Blackburn says. “They are saying ‘How dare you, in your arrogance, cap the opportunities my child will have? You’ll burden them with so much debt they won’t be able to buy a house—all because you can’t balance the budget.’” “
For years, the grass roots and especially concerned mothers & grandmothers regarded Washington, D.C. as wasteful and arrogant, but something that effects other people. Their opposition to the ‘Rats was philosophical and political. But ever since Obama & Company decided to have the government choose our doctors, that changed. Now, it’s personal.
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