http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/noonan/ en-us Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:10:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034112/posts But in 2005, Noonan broke with President George W. Bush's administration over the Iraq war, among other things, and it gave her an air of cross-partisan credibility going into the current presidential season. Then, as Clinton stumbled in the Democratic primaries, Noonan found herself being embraced by an unlikely coalition of Obama supporters and disaffected Republicans to whom she was no longer a boilerplate conservative, but an iconoclast who'd turned on President Bush and been vindicated by anti-Clinton sentiment that was growing among Democrats. What's more, being a woman gave Noonan a freedom to write critically about Clinton with little... Women's Wear Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034112/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:10:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026942/posts It is the most amazing thing that a young black man who was just a few short years ago unknown to most of his countrymen—really, unknown—could, this week, win the presidential nomination of one of our two great political parties. It is even more amazing that this historic news could be overshadowed by the personal drama and spite of the woman who lost to him. [Snip] We will hear a lot of tasteful tributes this weekend to Hillary Clinton's grit and fortitude. The Washington-based media may go a little over the top, but only out of relief. They know her... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026942/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:01:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023372/posts Leave him alone. He wrote a book. It is true or untrue, accurately reported or not. If not, this will no doubt be revealed. It is honestly meant and presented, or not. Look to the assertions, argue them, weigh and ponder. That's my first thought. My second goes back to something William Safire, himself a memoirist of the Nixon years, said to me, a future memoirist of the Reagan years: "The one thing history needs more of is first-person testimony." History needs data, detail, portraits, information; it needs eyewitness. "I was there, this is what I saw." History will sift... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023372/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 04:49:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016754/posts The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born. Terry Shoffner Clarke Reed The Republicans? Busy dying. online.wsj.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016754/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 09:43:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016738/posts Pity Party Big picture, May 2008: The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born. The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016738/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 07:44:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014508/posts Peggy Noonan May 11,2008-- THIS is an amazing story. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there's no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. He's got this thing. And the Democratic Party, after this long and brutal slog, should be dancing in the streets. Party elders should be coming out on the balcony in full array, in full regalia, and telling the crowd, "Habemus nominatum": "We have a nominee." And the crowd below should be cheering, "Viva Obamus! Viva nominatum!"... nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014508/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 20:50:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013474/posts This is an amazing story. The Democratic Party has a winner. It has a nominee. You know this because he has the most votes and the most elected delegates, and there's no way, mathematically, his opponent can get past him. Even after the worst two weeks of his campaign, he blew past her by 14 in North Carolina and came within two in Indiana. Martin Kozlowski He's got this thing. And the Democratic Party, after this long and brutal slog, should be dancing in the streets. Party elders should be coming out on the balcony in full array, in full... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013474/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 06:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004293/posts YOU knew he had arrived by the cheer that welled up from the street. It was electric. Suddenly inside the cathedral, where 3,000 people were waiting, it turned quiet and everyone turned. And now the great huge doors of St. Patrick's opened and sunlight poured in, crashed down, and there was the pope, and the crowd - nuns and religious, deacons and priests, meaning a lot of people who actually deserved to be there - sent a wave of applause crashing against the old Gothic dome. He reacted the way we now know Benedict does. Modest, meek, surprised by love,... NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004293/posts#comment Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:07:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003314/posts On Tuesday at Washington's Convention Center, Hillary Clinton made the best speech of her campaign. She told the American Society of Newspaper Editors how she conceives "the power and promise of the presidency." She asserted that President Bush had been "unready" for the office, did not understand its "constitutional character," exhibited in his decisions an "ideological disdain." She said she hopes to "restore balance and purpose" to the presidency, and detailed specific actions she would take immediately on entering the White House. It was an important speech, and someone, probably many someones, worked hard on it. It was highly partisan,... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003314/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1999935/posts At the open-air mass in St. Peter's on April 2, the third anniversary of the death of John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly – he brought mist to the eyes of our little group of visiting Americans – of John Paul's life, and the meaning of his suffering. "Among his many human and supernatural qualities he had an exceptional spiritual and mystical sensitivity," said the pontiff, who knew John Paul long and intimately. (Those who hope for swift canonization please note: "supernatural." Benedict the philosopher does not use words lightly.) He spoke of the distilled message of John... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1999935/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993008/posts I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don't, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.... What struck me as the best commentary on the Bosnia story came from a poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog: "Actually Mrs. Clinton was too modest. I was there and saw it... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993008/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:41:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992938/posts I think we've reached a signal point in the campaign. This is the point where, with Hillary Clinton, either you get it or you don't. There's no dodging now. You either understand the problem with her candidacy, or you don't. You either understand who she is, or not. And if you don't, after 16 years of watching Clintonian dramas, you probably never will.... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992938/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978804/posts Thank heavens for Peggy Noonan who so often manages, so elegantly, to articulate the meandering germs running through my brain but remaining unexpressed due to my lack of skill.In appreciating William F. Buckley today she writes: …When Jackie Onassis died, a friend of mine who knew her called me and said, with such woe, “Oh, we are losing her kind.” He meant the elegant, the cultivated, the refined. I thought of this with Bill’s passing, that we are losing his kind–people who were deeply, broadly educated in great universities when they taught deeply and broadly, who held deep views of... The Anchoress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978804/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967020/posts If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, "I concede" and go on vacation at a friend's house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait? Is it possible she could be so normal? WSJ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967020/posts#comment Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:03:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964154/posts In the most exciting and confounding election cycle of my lifetime, Rudy Giuliani, the Prince of the City, is out because he was about to lose New York, John Edwards is out, the Clintons are... Wall St Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964154/posts#comment Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:31:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959469/posts Peggy Noonan aims her considerable cannon at George Bush this morning in the Wall Street Journal in the middle of her analysis of the primaries. She fingers him as the main culprit in the destruction of the Republican Party, discounting other and perhaps better causes and engaging in just a little hyperbole: On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959469/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:58:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959890/posts [snip] On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!" This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues. WSJ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959890/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:57:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959321/posts Declarations: The primary campaign is tearing the Democrats apart. President Bush already did that to the Republicans. We begin, as one always must now, again, with Bill Clinton. The past week he has traveled South Carolina, leaving discord in his wake. Barack Obama, that "fairytale," is low, sneaky. "He put out a hit job on me." The press is cruelly carrying Mr. Obama's counter-jabs. "You live for it." (snip) As for the Republicans, their slow civil war continues. . . . The rage is due to many things. A world is ending, the old world of conservative meaning, and ascendancy.... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959321/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948141/posts Obama and Huckabee rise; Mrs. Clinton falls. And so it begins. We wanted exciting, we got exciting. As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won. Hillary Clinton, the inevitable, the avatar of the machine, lost. It's huge. Even though people have been talking about this possibility for six weeks now, it's still huge. She had the money, she had the organization, the party's stars, she had Elvis behind her, and the Clinton name in a base that loved Bill. And she lost. There are always a lot... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948141/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:02:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948137/posts Obama and Huckabee rise; Mrs. Clinton falls. And so it begins. We wanted exciting, we got exciting. As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won. Hillary Clinton, the inevitable, the avatar of the machine, lost. It's huge. Even though people have been talking about this possibility for six weeks now, it's still huge. She had the money, she had the organization, the party's stars, she had Elvis behind her, and the Clinton name in a base that loved Bill. And she lost. There are always a lot... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948137/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948203/posts And so it begins. We wanted exciting, we got exciting. As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won. Hillary Clinton, the inevitable, the avatar of the machine, lost. It's huge. Even though people have been talking about this possibility for six weeks now, it's still huge. She had the money, she had the organization, the party's stars, she had Elvis behind her, and the Clinton name in a base that loved Bill. And she lost. There are always a lot of reasons for a loss, but the... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948203/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948191/posts And so it begins. We wanted exciting, we got exciting. As this is written, late on the night of the caucuses, the outlines of the decisions seem clear: Barack Obama won. Hillary Clinton, the inevitable, the avatar of the machine, lost. It's huge. Even though people have been talking about this possibility for six weeks now, it's still huge. She had the money, she had the organization, the party's stars, she had Elvis behind her, and the Clinton name in a base that loved Bill. And she lost. There are always a lot of reasons for a loss, but the... Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948191/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945693/posts Hillary Clinton? No, not reasonable. I concede her sturdy mind, deep sophistication, and seriousness of intent. I see her as a triangulator like her husband, not a radical but a maneuverer in the direction of a vague, half-forgotten but always remembered, leftism. It is also true that she has a command-and-control mentality, an urgent, insistent and grating sense of destiny, and she appears to believe that any act that benefits Clintons is a virtuous act, because Clintons are good and deserve to be benefited. But this is not, actually, my central problem with her candidacy. My central problem is that... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945693/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:25:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945561/posts By next week politically active Iowans will have met and tallied their votes. Their decision this year will have a huge impact on the 2008 election, and a decisive impact on various candidacies. Some will be done in. Some will be made. Some will land just right or wrong and wake up the next day to read raves or obits. A week after that, New Hampshire. The endless campaign is in fact nearing its climax. But all eyes are on Iowa. Iowans bear a heck of a lot of responsibility this year, the first time since 1952 when there is... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945561/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:15:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945053/posts By next week politically active Iowans will have met and tallied their votes. Their decision this year will have a huge impact on the 2008 election, and a decisive impact on various candidacies. Some will be done in. Some will be made. Some will land just right or wrong and wake up the next day to read raves or obits. A week after that, New Hampshire. The endless campaign is in fact nearing its climax. (snip) Hillary Clinton? No, not reasonable. I concede her sturdy mind, deep sophistication, and seriousness of intent. I see her as a triangulator like her... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945053/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:28:37 GMT