February 5, 2010
The President
Question Time Isn't The Answer
“An American Question Time might be nice. But it's not what's needed.”
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#13 Peggy Noonan
The Wall Street Journal
Peggy Noonan has been an op-ed columnist for The Wall Street Journal since 2000 and was a speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
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Long a high-ranking member of conservative power circles, Noonan deftly expresses the Republican establishment voice’s. As a result, her occasional criticisms of the GOP, and such luminaries as Sarah Palin and George W. Bush, carry considerable weight. Noonan is known for her baroque prose and patrician worldview, inviting readers into the posh world of country-club conservatives.
Noonan’s writings on American values are among her most celebrated work. Long before she became a columnist, she had a gift for placing elegant prose into the mouths of politicians: she authored, for example, the eloquent address that Reagan delivered after the Challenger explosion. Noonan has turned her forceful speechwriting into columns that are both substantive and lyrical.
Long a high-ranking member of conservative power circles, Noonan deftly expresses the Republican establishment voice’s. As a result, her occasional criticisms of the GOP, and such luminaries as Sarah Palin and George W. Bush, carry considerable weight. Noonan is known for her baroque prose and patrician worldview, inviting readers into the posh world of country-club conservatives.
Noonan’s writings on American values are among her most celebrated work. Long before she became a columnist, she had a gift for placing elegant prose into the mouths of politicians: she authored, for example, the eloquent address that Reagan delivered after the Challenger explosion. Noonan has turned her forceful speechwriting into columns that are both substantive and lyrical.
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January 28, 2010
State Of The Union
The Obama Contradiction
“Speeches are not magic, and this one did not rescue [Obama] from his political predicament, but it did allow him to live to fight another day.”
January 22, 2010
Kennedy's Replacement
The New Political Rumbling
“What does the Massachusetts election mean? It means America is in play again.”
January 14, 2010
Health Care Reform
Slug the Obama Story 'Disconnect'
“The disconnect... puts the president in the position, only one year in, only 12 months into a brand-new glistening presidency, of seeming like the same old same old.”
January 7, 2010
The White House
The Risk of Catastrophic Victory
“Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer. They will be cheering their own demise.”
January 4, 2010
Society
Look Ahead With Stoicism—and Optimism
“Throughout the '00s Wall Street's leaders gave themselves over to one thing, and that was looking out, always, for No. 1.”
December 18, 2009
Society
The Adam Lambert Problem
“Americans feel besieged by the culture of their own country, and to what lengths they have to go to protect their children from it.”
December 11, 2009
War in Afghanistan
Obama Moves Toward Center Stage
“If he's going to bow to something, it might as well be reality.”
December 4, 2009
War in Afghanistan
Obama Redeclares War
“This is also the first time we've seen an American president declaring, or rather redeclaring, a war without a political base.”
November 29, 2009
The President
He Can't Take Another Bow
“The Obama bowing pictures are becoming iconic not for those reasons, however, but because they express a growing political perception, and that is that there is something amateurish about this presidency, something too ad hoc and highly personalized about it, something . . . incompetent, at least in its first year.”
November 20, 2009
Entertainment
Still Here After a Rough Year
“What's happening now on the Internet after a good show is a conversation, a new one, and it's sprung up from the technology that helped do in the old one.”
November 13, 2009
War in Afghanistan
Just the Facts, Mr. President
“Because [his Afghanistan decision] will be big, and high-stakes, there will be people telling [Obama] he must do many things, including tug at the nation's heart strings and move it with his vision. He really shouldn't do this.”
November 5, 2009
2009 Elections
The Rose Garden Path
“This White House has gotten bad at listening. It paid the price for that on Tuesday.”
October 30, 2009
The President
We're Governed by Callous Children
“Americans feel increasingly disheartened, and our leaders don't even notice.”
October 23, 2009
The President
It's His Rubble Now
“President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. Does he know it?”