[Pokey78]

Ping for the PNPL.

[NEWwoman]

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[aristotleman]

Wow.

[Own Drummer]

I must confess, I have the total hots for Peggy...

[Jesse]

Noonan kneepad alert. She must be getting big bucks for her shameless Bush pandering. What else was Bushie going to say to Europe, after his new FBI director told Americans to get ready to be blown to smithereens, because we can't do anything about it, and Cheney said the terrorists have us beat and will kill millions of us with NBC warfare, and we can't do anything about it except spend gazillions of dollars on farm subsidies, and government programs to encourage marriage?

Meanwhile, this administration's forked tongue "support" for the Second Amendment only goes so far as the tarmac. Pilots of commercial airlines, take note. Bush trusts F16 pilots with air to air missiles to shoot your plane down, but heaven forbid you pilots might shoot a terrorist and save the White House by having a gun in the cockpit.

Bush sucks. Big time. How much does it take to buy you back, Peggy?

[Miss Marple]

Thanks Pokey. I am glad I got to see the speech this morning. It was truly as Peggy said...an historic speech. God bless the President!

[Interesting Times]

Peggy Noonan at her best.

She has few equals at hearing and understanding the music of a speech.

[mrustow]

At the risk of starting trouble, and without seeking to be mean-spirited, I can't for the life of me understand the passion some FReepers feel for Ann Coulter. I like Coulter as a writer, and she's not a bad looking woman, but at fifty, Noonan is still one of the world's great beauties, and her writing is as lovely as her countenance.

With that said, she does at times fall in love with her own rhetoric, and confuse the strategic objective she is pursuing with the truth. Witness the following passage:

He reminds Europe that for all her pain she has been invincible. "From the Argonne Forest to the Anzio beachhead, conflicts in Europe have drawn the blood of millions, squandering and shattering lives across the earth. There are thousands, thousands of monuments in parks and squares across my country to young men of 18 and 19 and 20 whose lives ended in battle on this continent. Ours is the first generation in a hundred years that does not expect and does not fear the next European war. And that achievement--your achievement--is one of the greatest in modern times."

And so we know peace is winnable. We see this in the rise of the European Community, which is not seen by America as a rival but as living proof that "old hostilities" can be ended.

Europe isn't invincible; she exists, because America saved her. And the European Comunity/Union is a sign not of strength, but of weakness. The nation-states of Western Europe have lost all their vitality. They have not found peace so much as exhaustion, like the much-married playboy who becomes a "good husband" to his fourth wife, because due to advanced age and infirmities, he no longer has the vigor for fooling around.

[Mike K]

Pokey, you are just nailing the Eurotrash tonight! Good job, I hope people read these tomorrow.

[Stallone]

Peggy Noonan is a treasure. Sure, she's smart and attractive, but she is also conservative.

A real woman.

It just doesn't get any better.

[solzhenitsyn]

Thrilling! Thanks so much, Pokey.

[GretchenEE]

bump

[Mudboy Slim]

Enthusiastic bump fer the incomparable Ms. Noonan...MUD

[FairWitness]

This is known as complimenting the other guy by suggesting he shares your best beliefs.

A good thing to do. Also, it is usually better to say "Yes, but - - " than it is to say "No, but - - ".

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Together, we oppose an enemy that thrives on violence and the grief of the innocent. The terrorists are defined by their hatreds: They hate democracy and tolerance and free expression and women and Jews and Christians and all Muslims who disagree with them."

Thank you Pokey. I look forward to Peggy's articles and really like seeing her on TV.

[JulieRNR21]

Thanks for the ping to Peggy...she's a treasure!

Only wish my local liberal rag would let Americans actually read what our President said to Europe....coverage has been bleak overshadowed by the tragic Chandra news.

[redhead]

BUMP!!

[onedoug]

I believe Bush is sincere. He seems to think though, that we have a lot of time on our hands in this thing.

[nutmeg]

As a relative newbie to your ping list, I just wanted to take this opportunity to THANK YOU for your 'ping services'. You do an outstanding job! :-)

[nutmeg]

ping!