Peggy Noonan Calls Peggy Noonan UnAmerican

3:25 pm EST January 9th, 2009 | News | 8 Comments

Peggy Noonan spent a couple years after 9-11 rhapsodizing about how awesome George Bush was, but now that Obama is coming in she’s suddenly discovered distaste for hero worship. Is there any core to conservatism?

This is Peggy Noonan’s column from Bush’s first inauguration.

There was something portentous to the day. The unrelenting overcast, the gloomy skies, the bone-chilling wet; through the slightly tinted glass of the Fox studios the heavy skies made things look like they were happening in a Martian atmosphere. It was dark early. At 4 p.m., the lights of the limousines shone on the slick blacktop of Pennsylvania Avenue. The inaugural parade was marked by protests. It was as if fate, or God, had decided to tell Mr. Bush one last time: Nothing in this will be easy.

Some advice for Peggy:

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8 Responses to “Peggy Noonan Calls Peggy Noonan UnAmerican”

  1. The Reality-Based Dave says:
    January 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Is it irresponsible to speculate that Peggy taught Mickey Kaus the finer techniques of goat-blowing? It is irresponsible not to.

  2. Haplo9 says:
    January 9, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Oliver Willis found the hero worship of Bush distasteful, especially after 9/11. Now that Obama has been elected however, Oliver is all too happy with hero worship, and has been enjoying it himself. Is there any core to progressivism???

    Here, I think, is a more accurate (and far less hyperbolic) statement:

    Peggy Noonan is a selectively outraged partisan. So is Oliver Willis.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    January 9, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    The difference is I don’t think Obama walks on water and can do no wrong, and I certainly don’t think he’s a God.

  4. Haplo9 says:
    January 9, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    And you conclude that she thinks these things.. how? Where in her column does she say “Bush is perfect, he can do no wrong.”? She obviously had high hopes for him, hopes which you (and I) share for Obama. Horrors. Like I said, she’s a selective partisan, and so are you.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    January 9, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    She spent years talking about the perfection of Bush.

  6. Jaim says:
    January 10, 2009 at 12:48 am

    Right on time, not just wing-nuts, but the supposedly “librul” MSM decide to turn on a dime. Expect the following in the coming weeks, things that nobody talked about under Chimpy’s disastrous rule:

    1) Need for more oversight of the Executive branch.
    2) Need for less intrusive means of surveillance of American citizens re: FISA, wire-tapping in general.
    3) Need for an end to presidential fiat re: signing statements.
    4) Need for more Congressional oversight over things like defense spending being done in supplemental bills.

    Those are just a few off the top of my head. But yup, it’s the Clinton rules all over again. But I think Obama will walk the line pretty well. He has an electoral mandate, and he needs to get things done during his first term, MSM be damned.

  7. Duros62 says:
    January 10, 2009 at 11:50 am

    It was dark early.

    It usually does that in January.

  8. tom says:
    January 11, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    My most favorite memories from Bush’s first inauguration were people egging his limo on the way in and “hail to the thief” signs.