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NEWS ABOUT: Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan stories: 57 news summaries

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OPINION

 Candidates Lack
 'Placeness': Noonan 

Neither McCain or Obama has strong ties to any one location

Aug 15, 08 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - This year's presidential campaign gives no sense of the candidates' roots, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. Clinton was clearly a Southerner, and JFK unmistakably an Irish Catholic from Massachusetts, but “Obama and McCain are not from a place, but from an experience”--Obama from “the... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • home

opinion

Feel That? It's the Race Shifting: Noonan

Obama's weakened image is costing him among voters

Aug 8, 08 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s victory once seemed inevitable—but in the past month, a glimmer of real hope has emerged for John McCain, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. McCain's creeping up in the polls—even on YouTube—while Obama’s squeaky-clean image in the press has been somewhat... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • campaign tactics

Opinion

 Time for Mac to
 Get Interesting Again 

Aides need to let candor shine through once more

Jun 27, 08 9:15 AM CDT
(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... More »

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John McCain • American media • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • media coverage

glossies

How America Fell for Peggy Noonan 

Lefties and righties alike love her critiques of Bush and Clinton

Jun 21, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(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. "... More »

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conservative • Republican Party • columnists • Peggy Noonan • crossover voters

Opinion

In Russert's Life,
Lessons for All

We can learn much from how he lived, writes Noonan

Jun 20, 08 8:07 AM CDT
(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... More »

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media • media criticism • obituary • Tim Russert • Peggy Noonan

OPINION

2 Candidates, 2 Americas:
Old Values vs. New

McCain represents tradition that's changing

Jun 13, 08 7:50 AM CDT
(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."... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008 • patriotism • tradition

OPINION

Noonan to Dems:
You Dodged a Bullet

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

Jun 6, 08 5:18 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic Party • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008

OPINION

Shoot at the Facts,
Not at the Messenger

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

May 30, 08 5:21 PM CDT
(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... More »

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history • Scott McClellan • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush

opinion

 Clinton's
 Sexism
 Charges
 'Insulting' 


Past women icons wouldn't make such claims: Noonan

May 23, 08 10:50 AM CDT
(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—... More »

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Hillary Clinton • sexism • Peggy Noonan • women in office • misogyny

OPINION

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

Noonan: Maintaining bonds to White House a recipe for disaster

May 16, 08 3:31 PM CDT
(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... More »

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John McCain • Republican Party • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush

OPINION

Who Is Brave Enough
to Tell Hillary to Stop?

Democrats should be celebrating; instead, they're cowering

May 9, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democratic Party • Peggy Noonan • white voters

OPINION

Peggy Noonan, for One,
Is Not Offended

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

May 2, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(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... More »

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anger • tolerance • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • Irish

OPINION

 Obama Needs 'Act II' 

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

Apr 25, 08 6:49 PM CDT
(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 “... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democratic National Convention • Peggy Noonan • patriotism • George Washington

opinion

Benedict the Right Pope
for Right Now: Noonan

Internet pontiff succeeds TV phenomenon

Apr 11, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • religion • Catholicism • Pope John Paul II • Peggy Noonan

OPINION

Clinton, McCain Could Pick Up Some Pointers From Obama

Noonan: They could try addressing us as adults

Mar 22, 08 1:45 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Michelle Obama • race relations • Jeremiah Wright • Peggy Noonan • William Faulkner • African-Americans • white people

OPINION

Noonan to McCain:
Tell Us What You Believe In

Journal pundit criticizes candidate for lack of guiding philosophy

Mar 14, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Bill Clinton • philosophy • George HW Bush • maverick • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush

OPINION

Sizing Up the Seismic Shifts

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

Feb 1, 08 6:52 PM CST
(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—... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Peggy Noonan • Election 2008

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