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The WSJ columnist says the country can't come together until the president starts enunciating properlySIMON MALOY
Peggy Noonan is worried about America. Again. The Wall Street Journal columnists newest worry arises, as is so often the case, from a conversation this week with an acquaintance of considerable accomplishment in the political and financial worlds who thinks America is going to break apart into red and blue factions. I think a lot about the general subject of what deeply divides us, Noonan writes, occasionally with a feeling of some alarm.
Like any pundit worth her salt, Noonan assumes that her own personal sense of alarm is shared by the country as a whole, and after many paragraphs of gauzy ruminations on the nature of political division, she finally arrives at her point: No nations unity, cohesion and feeling of being at peace with itself can be taken for granted, even ours. They have to be protected day by day, in part by what politicians say. They shouldnt be making it worse. They shouldnt make divisions deeper.
And who are we to blame specifically for these deepening divisions?
In just the past week that means:
The president shouldnt be using a fateful and divisive word like impeachment to raise money and rouse his base. He shouldnt be at campaign-type rallies where he speaks only to the base, he should be speaking to the country. He shouldnt be out there dropping his gs, slouching around a podium, complaining about his ill treatment, describing his opponents with disdain: Stop just hatin all the time.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/08/01/peggy_noonan_america_is_divided_because_obama_is_out_there_dropping_his_gs/
trof
(54,256 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)BklnDem75
(2,918 posts)We can't all be as articulate as your crush Duhbya.
Bragi
(7,650 posts)Why does American polspeak now require that all its leaders drop g's, and call everyone from Al Quaeda terrorists and 1 per centers "folks"? Why does everyone in politics now have to adopt language that sounds like Bush-speak?
Mopar151
(10,006 posts)kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)spanone
(135,921 posts)piss on peggy
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Reagan fluffers all have it.
DinahMoeHum
(21,825 posts). . .regarding Sarah Palin?
treestar
(82,383 posts)I mean if it's bad, it's bad when Sarah does it, too.
kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)vanlassie
(5,694 posts)dawg
(10,625 posts)That's when he's talking about the issues that matter to me.
But once election season is over, he goes back to Washington, re-acquires the speech and mannerisms of a boring, conservative college professor, and resumes his quest for bipartisan consensus. (Although maybe he has finally had enough of that?)
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)One who derives pleasure from swallowing their own horseshit.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)without actually using the B-word" file.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)Pe'y Noonan or something?