Blogger Quote of the Day 10-24-10: Ran at Si Vis Pacem

Okay, to begin with, I will not pretend that I've always known to what the Latin Si Vis Pacem translates. But I didn't have to look it up because Ran, the Dominus at Si Vis Pacem provides the translation in his banner, and it is advice we must hold dear: If you seek peace, seek first liberty. So visiting Ran, I found his latest post on the truth about Tea Parties finally being told in media such as the Wall Street Journal.

Peggy Noonan wrote the article to which Dominus refers. Noonan is always quote-worthy, but I loved this quote from Ran in response to her article:

In the end, it isn't even about The Won. It is about the statist-progressive totalitarian agenda. America is an idea, after all. American exceptionalism is merely the aggregate expression of individual achievement obtained with Libery. That's really all we Teapers want."

 Ronald Reagan and Peggy Noonan

Up top in the article is a portion of Peggy's Noonan's WSJ article: How the GOP was saved from Bush and the establishment. Can you guess who she credits? As Ran said, Noonan hit it out of the park. Please visit Ran and check out the article and the comments at Si Vis Pacem, and rejoice along with us, that some major media are beginning "to get it." And one more...another from the Hoover Institution, also printed in the WSJ.

Peggy Noonan on My Last Nerve: Peggy Noonan Bret Baier: Noonan's High Praise of Bret Baier

Noonan has a piece in the Wall Street Journal today. The first line had me thinking, "okay, you go Peggy," then 5 lines down, she sizes-up the Obama administration as no better than the Bush administration - a comparison at-its-heart that is rude, rude, rude. Noonan is on my last nerve.

Really, President Bush does not deserve this comment when Noonan is talking about the global-reaching embarrassment of Obama canceling his trip to Australia and Indonesia:

How bush league, how undisciplined, how kid's stuff

Right now, I'm praying that Obama could bear any single trait of George W. Bush, especially his discipline and courage, which never failed, and just an ounce of Bush's core decency would serve this current president well.

However, Noonan did have high-praise for Bret Baier's interview with Obama, which was the point of the article - right after the rude and unfounded comparison to G.W. Bush:

Throughout, Mr. Baier pressed the president. Some thought this bordered on impertinence. I did not. Mr. Obama now routinely filibusters in interviews. He has his message, and he presses it forward smoothly, adroitly. He buries you in words. Are you worried what failure of the bill will do to you? I'm worried about what the status quo will do to the families that are uninsured...

Mr. Baier forced him off his well-worn grooves. He did it by stopping long answers with short questions, by cutting off and redirecting. In this he was like a low-speed bumper car. In the end the interview seemed to me a public service because everyone in America right now wants to see the president forced off his grooves and into candor on an issue that involves 17% of the economy. Again, the stakes are high. So Mr. Baier's style seemed -- this is admittedly subjective -- not rude but within the bounds, and not driven by the antic spirit that sometimes overtakes reporters. He seemed to be trying to get new information. He seemed to be attempting to better inform the public.

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Quote of the Day Peggy Noonan: Voters Thought He Wasn't a Nut

Quote of the Day: Peggy Noonan

In 2008, the voters went for Mr. Obama thinking he was not a Nut but a cool and sober moderate of the center-left sort. In 2009 and 2010, they looked at his general governing attitudes as reflected in his preoccupations—health care, cap and trade—and their hidden, potential and obvious costs, and thought, "Uh-oh, he's a Nut!"

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