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Welcome to the culture war, Peggy Noonan, and feel free to join those of us who are disgusted by overreaching government, federal overspending, entitlement programs, the debt

Earth to Peggy Noonan – We have a Problem



More than three years into the Obama presidency, Wall Street Journal newspaper columnist Peggy Noonan amazingly notices for the first time that there’s a problem.
The flagship writer extraordinaire on the Journal’s Opinion Page every weekend, Peggy Noonan, who also happens to have been a speech writer for former President George H.W. Bush, alerted us a few days ago that America has a crisis of character. Welcome to our world, Peggy. The doyenne of the Republican Party establishment, Peggy Noonan, all of a sudden observes that the United States is going soft. She is too kind. How about headed to hell in a hand basket? Oh how things can change in a few short years for our dear Peggy. Who can forget Peggy Noonan’s fawning report of Obama’s inauguration day in Washington, D.C., in 2009 when she gushed about the new president coming our way and how proud the older African-American women were – many wearing their celebratory mink coats in the cold capital that January. Oh Sunny Day, Peggy!

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The rest of us were wondering how America’s second suicide attempt (the 1960s being the first) could occur with the election of a hard leftist to the White House. Back then in 2009, Noonan sang a cheery song of optimism and dare I say, “Hope.” We sensible conservatives, meanwhile, had figuratively torn our garments and donned sackcloth and ashes in memoriam for the apparent death of the Republic with Obama’s victory and both the House and Senate going Democrat. Peggy Noonan is the window into the soul of the RINO, the Republican in Name Only, the ones who are embarrassed by the great unwashed conservative masses who attend Nascar races and go hunting in fly-over country. Just vote Republican, they say, and shut up. These RINOs condemn the Tea Party for having the audacity to lose two high-profile elections in 2010 despite winning many score more on both the national and local levels and producing an historic victory for the GOP. So, I’m calling out Peggy Noonan for trying to “explain” Barack Obama these last few years. “He doesn’t have good advisors, or doesn’t listen to them, or his temperament is a bit off,” are some of her favorite missives on the subject. It can’t be that Obama does the things that he does because he is a radical agitator. Oh, no, that can’t be? Bravo Peggy for discovering that public dissatisfaction with Obama and the direction of America is “more than the economy, it’s also about our culture or rather the flat brute highly sexualized thing we call our culture.” Now you are sounding like Michael Savage, i.e., making sense. While there is the occasional documentary or show of some merit on television, the overwhelming fare shown is borderline soft porn. Viagra and Cialysis promos and raunchy beer ads make professional football on television equally unwatchable. Western civilization hangs in the balance. Civility in that most civil of countries, Great Britain, is readily disappearing, according to another commentator who wrote recently on menacing youth there. The debt crisis continues to threaten Greece and Spain, not to mention Portugal and the United States. Particularly troubling is our inability to address adequately the depth of our challenges as a nation. It is axiomatic since the Holocaust that if someone says he plans to commit genocide or even murder, he should be taken seriously and believed. That’s what is so disturbing in a world marked by jihadist rhetoric advocating killing of infidels. Last week a federal court in Brooklyn heard a case of three people who were allegedly conspiring to detonate suicide bombs in the New York City Subway. Two of the individuals turned state’s evidence against the third. What’s interesting about the story is not only how it is reported but also not reported. First, the three were identified as “former high school classmates from Queens,” as if Archie Bunker and a couple of pals from Kelsey’s Tavern all of a sudden got off their bar stools and became radicalized by al-Qaeda. The story in a sane world could have read the following: Three foreign-born Muslims who may or may not have been U.S. citizens but who went to an American high school together may or may not have turned on the country that had welcomed them to its shores and to its blessings of liberty. Somehow these three alleged terrorists traveled to Pakistan for al-Qaeda training and then returned to the United States without stirring the alarm bells of the State Department. Granted the evidence against the third person who did not cop a plea is sketchy, but can we at least rise up as a nation of free peoples against those who commit and want to commit barbarism in our midst? At least Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke plainly for many years about the dangers of radical Islam. Welcome to the culture war, Peggy Noonan, and feel free to join those of us who are disgusted by overreaching government, federal overspending, entitlement programs, the debt, Hollywood, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, abortion on demand, public sector unions bilking the taxpayers, teachers unions blocking school choice and reform, race hustlers Van Jones, Maxine Waters, and Al Sharpton, TSA agents patting down old women in airports, GSA bureaucrats “Gone Wild” in Las Vegas, boys wearing pants around their knees and showing their underwear, girls of all ages dressed like hookers, the Lamestream Media, and of course Dear Leader, Senior Loon, Barack Hussein Obama and his grating globetrotting wife Michelle. Yes, Peggy, “something seems to be going terribly wrong.” Peggy’s solution: “Maybe we have to stop and think about this.” How about going a step further and adding prayer and asking for Divine Mercy.


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Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings.  He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.


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