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2012-07-13 -Election 2012

Peggy Noonan: it's all ~~our~~ their fault

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Posted by Steve White 2012-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A black woman in a campaign that always threatens to take on a painful racial overlay. A foreign-policy professional acquainted with everyone who's reigned or been rising the past 20 years.

Ahg....we've aleady a "reigning black".... isn't that quite enough?

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-13 00:30|| 2012-07-13 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Rice would make a great vice president IMO. However, it's moot, because she won't do it.

Posted by Secret Master 2012-07-13 00:56|| 2012-07-13 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Jeez, Peggy. Go find a shark to jump.

Posted by SteveS 2012-07-13 01:02|| 2012-07-13 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 She jumped the shark a few years ago when she got tired of the iraq war for fairly flighty reasons. She showed herself unserious and very much part of the wahington establishment at every opportunity since. Shes been riding on Reagans coattails for decades but shes not a free thinker but a free rider.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-07-13 08:51|| 2012-07-13 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone pointed out that Condi is "too much of a girl" to be VP. They have a point: if pressed, she would rise to the occasion and perform magnificently, but would have to lose qualities that make her who she is and which she values more than the "bennies" that comes with power.

Jesus posed the question, "what does it profit a man (i.e. person) if they gain the whole world but lose their own soul?" The problem is that the highest offices are so plagued by backbiters and back-seat drivers (made more nasty by their profound ignorance of the directions and by their resentment at being ignored) that they practically require that office holders lose their soul.

Condi counted the cost and said "No thanks." Good for her: She and Trailing Wife are the kind of women who are best appreciated by being left to pursue their goals in their own unique way, and we would be losers if we unwisely take advantage of their grace.

Posted by Ptah 2012-07-13 09:01|| 2012-07-13 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd rather read a column by David Brooks...

Posted by Raj 2012-07-13 09:10|| 2012-07-13 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 I would love to see Condi as the Vp nomination. I think it would be good for the country to force race baiters into contortions after all Barrack has inflicted on the black community and shes got the foreign policy/security chops that Romney is missing.

She would debate circles around Biden.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2012-07-13 09:41|| 2012-07-13 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Condi as VP is a plus for me. I know she has her faults, but if she is in, the election isn't about race, or feminism, it's only about the economy and where the hell we are going as a country.

Maybe I'm a little optimistic after reading VDH's column.

Posted by Penguin 2012-07-13 10:00|| 2012-07-13 10:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Jeez Peggy, have a couple bottles to help meet deadline? That's some 6th grade level stuff there, agree with the premise or not.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-07-13 10:44|| 2012-07-13 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I was never a big fan of Condi. Especially after she told Israel to hold off attacking their attackers a few days to give the "innocent civilians" time to stop acting as human shields in the last spat with Lebanon. She's about as "conservative" as W was.

Posted by gorb 2012-07-13 14:44|| 2012-07-13 14:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Jeez Peggy, have a couple bottles to help meet deadline?

S'what happens when you work with Maureen Dowd.

Posted by Pappy 2012-07-13 17:47|| 2012-07-13 17:47|| Front Page Top

#12 You are ever gallant, Ptah, thank you. I quite agree with your diagnosis of Ms Rice. As an advisor she was wonderful, as a Secretary of State she was considerably better than either her predecessor or her successor, neither of whom got Israel right either. But she does not have the characteristics of a successful politician...or even an unsuccessful one. At core she is a creature of academia.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-07-13 19:09|| 2012-07-13 19:09|| Front Page Top

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