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January 21, 2005

When you lose Peggy Noonan....

....do you lose America?

The inaugural address itself was startling. It left me with a bad feeling, and reluctant dislike. Rhetorically, it veered from high-class boilerplate to strong and simple sentences, but it was not pedestrian. George W. Bush's second inaugural will no doubt prove historic because it carried a punch, asserting an agenda so sweeping that an observer quipped that by the end he would not have been surprised if the president had announced we were going to colonize Mars.

There's plenty for liberals like me to dislike about the speech. It was more saber rattling rhetoric from a man I consider inept at the job people keep giving him a chance to screw up further. But Peggy Noonan?

Posted by Carla at January 21, 2005 02:27 PM