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Opinion

Jun 27, 2008 9:15 AM CDT

Time for Mac to Get Interesting Again

Aides need to let candor shine through once more

(Newser) - John McCain is getting lost in the giant media shadow thrown by Barack Obama, but there's plenty of time to fix things, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. For every two Obamania stories, there's one "deadly" boring report declaring: "McCain Unveils Proposal.” Now would be...

How America Fell for Peggy Noonan

glossies

Jun 21, 2008 5:20 PM CDT

How America Fell for Peggy Noonan

Lefties and righties alike love her critiques of Bush and Clinton

(Newser) - Peggy Noonan begged Women's Wear Daily to can its feature article on her, saying she "winced at things I'd said." But Jacob Bernstein's piece ran, revealing how the anti-Clinton, pro-Reagan pundit turned on President Bush and won a huge crossover audience with her Wall Street Journal column. "...

In Russert's Life,
Lessons for All

Opinion

Jun 20, 2008 8:07 AM CDT

In Russert's Life, Lessons for All

We can learn much from how he lived, writes Noonan

(Newser) - Media coverage of Tim Russert's death was unprecedented in scope—and worth every second, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Russert lived a life worth emulating with his emphasis on family, intregrity, faith, self-discipline, and guts. As for the journalists talking about his open-mindedness and serious approach to...

2 Candidates, 2 Americas:
Old Values vs. New

OPINION

Jun 13, 2008 7:50 AM CDT

2 Candidates, 2 Americas: Old Values vs. New

McCain represents tradition that's changing

(Newser) - It's not just youth vs. age, Peggy Noonan writes of the general election contest that began in earnest this week, it's a battle of the Old America vs. the New America—"between the thing we were, and the thing we have been becoming for 40 years or so."...

Noonan to Dems:
You Dodged a Bullet

OPINION

Jun 6, 2008 5:18 PM CDT

Noonan to Dems: You Dodged a Bullet

And deep-sixed a hopeful who brings lies, drama, and scandal

(Newser) - Hooray, Democrats! You dumped Hillary Clinton, not for her positions, or because you were sexist, but over her "essential nature," Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal. Another Clinton White House would have meant lies, scandal, drama, and "the sheer, daily madness that is her, and...

Shoot at the Facts,
Not at the Messenger

OPINION

May 30, 2008 5:21 PM CDT

Shoot at the Facts, Not at the Messenger

Noonan, finding book believable, urges shift in debate on McClellan's work

(Newser) - Scott McClellan isn't someone Peggy Noonan found herself admiring, she writes in the Wall Street Journal, but she did end up “believing him" after finishing his memoir. He didn’t pen his story to make friends or salvage his image, but rather to set the record straight as he...

Clinton's
Sexism
Charges
'Insulting'

opinion

May 23, 2008 10:50 AM CDT

Clinton's Sexism Charges 'Insulting'

Past women icons wouldn't make such claims: Noonan

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s claims of misogyny this week were cheap shots that history’s greatest women never would have uttered, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . Suggesting that sexism is costing her the nomination is “insulting” and “manipulative”—it paints other candidates’ supporters as biased—...

To See Root of GOP's Problems, Look to the Top

OPINION

May 16, 2008 3:31 PM CDT

To See Root of GOP's Problems, Look to the Top

Noonan: Maintaining bonds to White House a recipe for disaster

(Newser) - It’s too late for the Republican Party to break with President Bush, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal, and that will translate to heavy losses come November. The time for the GOP to call out the administration has passed, she argues. “What two years ago would...

Who Is Brave Enough
to Tell Hillary to Stop?

OPINION

May 9, 2008 12:00 PM CDT

Who Is Brave Enough to Tell Hillary to Stop?

Democrats should be celebrating; instead, they're cowering

(Newser) - Now that Hillary Clinton has lost, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal, she’s busy tearing her party apart. Democrats "should be dancing in the streets" after the brutal campaign, but instead they’re holed up at DC bars, regarding the former first family with “depressed...

Peggy Noonan, for One,
Is Not Offended

OPINION

May 2, 2008 6:11 PM CDT

Peggy Noonan, for One, Is Not Offended

Rev. Wright merely latest, most-publicized participant in Whitman's 'barbaric yawp'

(Newser) - Peggy Noonan wonders if there's something wrong with her for not being upset over Jeremiah Wright’s extremist sermons. No, she decides in the Wall Street Journal, she just doesn’t “think his views carry deep implications for our country”—and indeed understands the bitterness, drawing on the...

Obama Needs 'Act II'

OPINION

Apr 25, 2008 6:49 PM CDT

Obama Needs 'Act II'

And its focus should be America itself, Noonan advises in the Journal

(Newser) - Act I was his grand entrance, and Act III will be his acceptance speech at the party convention, but now Barack Obama needs an Act II, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal—and the subject of the act should be America. John McCain carries love of country “...

Benedict the Right Pope
for Right Now: Noonan

opinion

Apr 11, 2008 1:16 PM CDT

Benedict the Right Pope for Right Now: Noonan

Internet pontiff succeeds TV phenomenon

(Newser) - John Paul II was an incredible Pope, but Benedict might be just what the world needs today, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Benedict, who "lacks an immediately accessible flair," succeeded a telegenic "showman" who brought joy to the faithful. "John Paul made you...

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

OPINION

Mar 22, 2008 1:45 PM CDT

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

Noonan: They could try addressing us as adults

(Newser) - Add conservative columnist—and speechwriter of note—Peggy Noonan to the list of pundits impressed by Barack Obama’s address on race. “It was a speech to think to, not clap to,” Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal . And it holds a lesson for Clinton and McCain:...

Noonan to McCain:
Tell Us What You Believe In

OPINION

Mar 14, 2008 3:30 PM CDT

Noonan to McCain: Tell Us What You Believe In

Journal pundit criticizes candidate for lack of guiding philosophy

(Newser) - Peggy Noonan takes the measure of John McCain in today's Wall Street Journal and wonders "what does he stand for, really?" A friend of the senator's speculates on his "complacency" now that he's secured the nomination, and Noonan goes off: "You have to want the presidency or...

Sizing Up the Seismic Shifts

OPINION

Feb 1, 2008 6:52 PM CST

Sizing Up the Seismic Shifts

Journal 's Peggy Noonan calls this year's races confounding and exciting

(Newser) - Like politics? If so, "you are waking up each morning with a spring in your step" because of this year's political hayride, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal. The conservative essayist sizes up the shifts—Democrats rebelling against the Clintons; Republicans thumbing their noses at conservative leadership—...