Comments on: Peggy Noonan: The Obamas Are Unpatriotic Liberal Snobs http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:48:18 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: racetoinfinity http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1292136 racetoinfinity Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:50:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1292136 <p>You are so right - I can imagine her snickering with her idle rich Connecticut friends at the NASCAR fans with the American flag decals plastered all over their trucks.</p> <p>There are levels of patriotism. Progressive patriotism includes respect for the whole planet as well as our own country and leadership that unites in interdependent visionary solutions. Michelle O. was obviously referring to the last 7 years.</p> <p>Peggy Noonan is a Wall St. Republican elitist writing saccharine consoling swill about people who service her Rolls.</p> You are so right – I can imagine her snickering with her idle rich Connecticut friends at the NASCAR fans with the American flag decals plastered all over their trucks.

There are levels of patriotism. Progressive patriotism includes respect for the whole planet as well as our own country and leadership that unites in interdependent visionary solutions. Michelle O. was obviously referring to the last 7 years.

Peggy Noonan is a Wall St. Republican elitist writing saccharine consoling swill about people who service her Rolls.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291689 MarkH Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:55:54 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291689 <blockquote><p>Peggy Noonan and Charlie Black both have a manner that is very OK with “Middle America”. this kinda folksy, polite, pleasant tone perfumes the ugly stuff they squeeze into your palm as they engage you with a smile and sincere, earnest voice.</p></blockquote> <p>Last year I had hopes that Noonan, as a ‘leader’ of sorts of the Reagan Democrats would see the mess the Republicans have made of things and return to the Democratic side. Alas, it appears she is blind.</p> <p>If the voter turnout for the primaries is a good indicator of things to come, then it could be that a lot of the Reagan Democrats have turned away from the Republicans and will ignore Noonan.</p> <p>It just goes to show that someone who is good with words (and she is) isn’t necessarily very deep or sincere. Eh, too bad.</p>

Peggy Noonan and Charlie Black both have a manner that is very OK with “Middle America”. this kinda folksy, polite, pleasant tone perfumes the ugly stuff they squeeze into your palm as they engage you with a smile and sincere, earnest voice.

Last year I had hopes that Noonan, as a ‘leader’ of sorts of the Reagan Democrats would see the mess the Republicans have made of things and return to the Democratic side. Alas, it appears she is blind.

If the voter turnout for the primaries is a good indicator of things to come, then it could be that a lot of the Reagan Democrats have turned away from the Republicans and will ignore Noonan.

It just goes to show that someone who is good with words (and she is) isn’t necessarily very deep or sincere. Eh, too bad.

]]> By: ChrisO http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291381 ChrisO Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:01:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291381 <p>This kind of comment is what drives so many of us Hillary supporters crazy. Of course Noonan’s an idiot, but she didn’t say, or even imply, anything about Obama being black. It’s really offensive to keep hearing this shit from people who claim the Clinton’s are the ones playing the race card. This is hardly an isolated instance, either.</p> This kind of comment is what drives so many of us Hillary supporters crazy. Of course Noonan’s an idiot, but she didn’t say, or even imply, anything about Obama being black. It’s really offensive to keep hearing this shit from people who claim the Clinton’s are the ones playing the race card. This is hardly an isolated instance, either.

]]> By: Crosstimbers http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291342 Crosstimbers Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:45:52 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291342 <p>I think you’ve found the misunderstanding. They are <em>of it</em>, but she is <em>full of it</em>.</p> I think you’ve found the misunderstanding. They are of it, but she is full of it.

]]> By: ChrisBarnett http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291297 ChrisBarnett Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:20:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291297 <p>Sure am proud not to be a “normal” American like Ms. Noonan. I dedicate this poem to her:</p> <p>I love America and I love France, poor Ms. Noonan’s got a knot in her pants. What can one do, but look at her askance? Wish those nuts would come out of their trance!</p> <p>Amen!</p> Sure am proud not to be a “normal” American like Ms. Noonan. I dedicate this poem to her:

I love America and I love France, poor Ms. Noonan’s got a knot in her pants. What can one do, but look at her askance? Wish those nuts would come out of their trance!

Amen!

]]> By: Blue Texan http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291244 Blue Texan Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:48:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291244 <p>Now that is some funny shit.</p> Now that is some funny shit.

]]> By: pluege http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291236 pluege Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:45:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291236 <p>mmmmm…a paper’s function is to sell newspapers. They sell papers by getting people to read the articles in the paper. with extensive idiocy between its sheets such as noonan, the WSJ even gets lefty bloggers to read their paper, and…AND they get the lefty bloggers to tell everyone else about it so they can go read the paper for themselves too providing even more exposure for the idiots writing for the paper.</p> <p>I guess those paper guys are pretty smart paying idiots like noonan to blather nonsense.<br /> .</p> mmmmm…a paper’s function is to sell newspapers. They sell papers by getting people to read the articles in the paper. with extensive idiocy between its sheets such as noonan, the WSJ even gets lefty bloggers to read their paper, and…AND they get the lefty bloggers to tell everyone else about it so they can go read the paper for themselves too providing even more exposure for the idiots writing for the paper.

I guess those paper guys are pretty smart paying idiots like noonan to blather nonsense.
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]]> By: JinnRikki http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291221 JinnRikki Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:33:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291221 <p>Each time I hear Nooner speak I wonder how she keeps getting that script for horse tranquilizers refilled.</p> Each time I hear Nooner speak I wonder how she keeps getting that script for horse tranquilizers refilled.

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291209 Elliott Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:29:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291209 <blockquote><p>Did anyone teach Peggy Noonan to put her character assassination in the declarative mode?</p></blockquote> <p>lol!</p>

Did anyone teach Peggy Noonan to put her character assassination in the declarative mode?

lol!

]]> By: earlofhuntingdon http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291208 earlofhuntingdon Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:27:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/02/22/peggy-noonan-the-obamas-are-unpatriotic-liberal-snobs/#comment-1291208 <p>Ms. Noonan, like the equally talented David Brooks, writes to reinforce the prejudices of her class. She hates the images of the messy, hard, ordinary America the Obamas grew up in. She despises them for having succeeded despite the odds against it. (As few people go from the streets to Harvard Law as from the South Side to the NBA.) </p> <p>Ms. Noonan writes about Obama the way she covered Dubya, but with the opposite goal. With Obama, she disguises that he earned his lifelong success, hoping to obscure the attributes that could make him a successful president. With Bush, she disguised his lifelong failures, hoping to obscure that that’s what he would be as president. Look how well that turned out.</p> Ms. Noonan, like the equally talented David Brooks, writes to reinforce the prejudices of her class. She hates the images of the messy, hard, ordinary America the Obamas grew up in. She despises them for having succeeded despite the odds against it. (As few people go from the streets to Harvard Law as from the South Side to the NBA.)

Ms. Noonan writes about Obama the way she covered Dubya, but with the opposite goal. With Obama, she disguises that he earned his lifelong success, hoping to obscure the attributes that could make him a successful president. With Bush, she disguised his lifelong failures, hoping to obscure that that’s what he would be as president. Look how well that turned out.

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