I Am Tired of Peggy Noonan
By Zebulon Pike | October 24, 2008
Peggy Noonan, a writer who has made her name by overusing adjectives, envisions major benefits to a lurch left in America foreign policy:
How much are they paying you, Peggy? Or did your desire for continued White House gala invitations eclipse your common sense?
At least Senator Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate, retains a more sober view regarding the consequences of a Barack Obama foreign policy regime:
Looks like I'm the new president of "Middle Class Politicos Who Sparingly Use Adjectives" for McCain.
Peggy Noonan, a writer who has made her name by overusing adjectives, envisions major benefits to a lurch left in America foreign policy:
In a way, Mr. Obama can more easily go left in foreign relations for the precise reason no one knows what going left is, because no one knows what going right in foreign relations is, at least if "right" means "conservative." Mr. Obama has a great chance, in this area, to confuse the world. And a confused world is not all a bad thing. His persona, name, color, youth and approach will, at least initially, jumble up long-settled categories. Radicals enjoy hating America, but a particular picture of America. He is not that picture. He will give calculating Western European leaders an opening to be friendly to America again; they will feel that Mr. Obama's victory constitutes the rebuke of the Bushism they desire. They will befriend the rebuker.What a strange theory for a Reagan speech writer to espouse! Noonan has rejected "peace through strength" in favor of "peace through befuddling ignorance."
How much are they paying you, Peggy? Or did your desire for continued White House gala invitations eclipse your common sense?
At least Senator Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate, retains a more sober view regarding the consequences of a Barack Obama foreign policy regime:
"Remember I said it standing here. if you don't
remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of
this guy. And he's gonna have to make some really tough -- I don't know what the decision's gonna be, but I promise you it
will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it's gonna happen."
Republican elites fawn over his infantile platitudes and empty promises. Elite Democrats openly admit that his weaknesses will attract danger. Looks like I'm the new president of "Middle Class Politicos Who Sparingly Use Adjectives" for McCain.
i voted for your rcp entry based just on the title. i agree with you completely.
there's this group of people out there that occupy the cushy middle. they pontificate in writing as if they love the look of adverbs and adjectives. i suspect their proudest moment on a piece is not the content, but that dangling modifier they discovered late in the edit.
"oh my!" so they text to their friends, "so i was having my earl grey, and right there, just before i hit 'send,' i found this DM!"
they need to start at the beginning. list, branch, have a purpose in writing, then write. column inches of feel-good sentences, of agreeing with both sides, of feeling comfortable with mutually exclusive positions of candidates is just silly.
i stopped reading regularly noonan several months ago. the few bits of hers that i have tried to read since has been like chewing aspirin with the great aunt that you never quite understood how she was related and just wanted to do your time and get out.
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