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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39798)	9/26/2000 1:06:25 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

Under the heading "different strokes": It's hard to admit this -- I am a liberal, after all -- but I have a thing for Peggy Noonan. The speeches she wrote for President Reagan are the finest that anyone in our shared profession has produced in the last two decades. And her first book, "What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era," is the most engaging political memoir I've ever read. Who else could capture an entire presidential administration in a single sentence? "Everyone wore Adam Smith ties that were slightly stained from the mayonnaise that fell from the sandwich that was wolfed down at the working lunch on judicial reform." And in the same book, the section "Three Phases of the White House" described a psychological progression instantly familiar to any staffer who's ever bounded up the West Wing's narrow stairways. The first White House phase, Noonan recalls, is to keep quiet so nobody figures out how dumb you are. The second phase is marked by the happy realization, "Hey, I'm as bright as the other guys." And "the third is, 'Oh my God, we're in charge?'" Daniel H. Pink, chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore from 1995 to 1997, is a contributing editor at Fast Company. salon.com

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (39798)	9/26/2000 1:32:55 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

The woman truly is lame. I would not be surprised to find out she is writing joke lines for Dubya too. Probably this one.... Dubya is on Letterman after Dave's bypass... Letterman gives him this softball..." you often say, 'I'm a uniter,not a divider', what does that mean?" Dubya hesitates and with that smirk on his face says "It means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." Letterman did not know what to say and the audience groaned and then booed. I bet when Noonan wrote it she thought it was sweet and lovable. She probably advised Lazio to invade Hillary's podium space too. Regards, Don