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To: calgal who wrote (7259)	7/16/2007 1:50:10 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 10087

Friday, July 13, 2007 Bush Gives Noonan the Creeps Posted by Dean Barnett \| 9:18 AM Peggy Noonan’s column today suggests that she’s upset that the president is not more morose over his current difficulties. She invokes LBJ and Lincoln who suffered grandly during hard times. Jimmy Carter suffered, too. I wonder why he didn’t make Noonan’s honor roll. Oddly, she offers no mention of Ronald Reagan who remained a sunny optimist even when the economy cratered during his first years in office. Perhaps Peggy is unfamiliar with our 40th president. This little passage gets to the heart of Noonan’s complaint: “His good humor seems to me disorienting, and strange… Americans have always been somewhat romantic about the meaning of our country, and the beacon it can be for the world, and what the Founders did. But they like the president to be the cool-eyed realist, the tough customer who understands harsh realities. “With Mr. Bush it is the people who are forced to be cool-eyed and realistic. He's the one who goes off on the toots. This is extremely irritating, and also unnatural. Actually it's weird.” See? She’s doing it again! She’s calling someone she doesn’t like “creepy.” Let the record show, I view it as a personal triumph that Noonan resisted what must have been a powerful urge to actually use the word “creepy.” And isn’t it remarkable how much Ms. Noonan sounds like one of those media-types who during 2004 wanted to hear the president confess his errors and beg for forgiveness. A leader who didn’t feel defeated and yet agreed to such a Kabuki ritual? That would be creepy. A leader who really felt awful and indulged his desire to walk around with a hang-dog face and talk about how rotten everything is? Now that would be Jimmy Carter. hughhewitt.townhall.com