“(This president)..likes cliffs, which is why it’s always a cliff with him and never a deal. He likes the high-stakes , tottering air of crisis. Maybe it makes him feel his mastery and reminds him how cool he is, unrattled while he rattles others. He can take it. Can they?
“He is a uniquely polarizing figure. A moderate U.S. senator said the other day: “One thing not said enough he is the most divisive president in modern history. He doesn’t just divide the Congress, he divides the country.”
There you go. That’ just old ‘Miss Peggy’ Noonan again. Just never a kind word for the president.
But this is a bit different. This was your typical Noonan column…except this one appeared in the Wall Street Journal in its Saturday-Sunday edition, January 5-6, 2013. And “the president” was Barack Hussein Obama.
Question: Does Ms. Noonan just regularly recycle her old columns with updated names and events? Or does she always find that the current president is the ‘worst ever’…until the next one? DLH
“reminds him how cool he is, unrattled while he rattles others.” Noonan would never say that part about Trump. This reflects infatuation on her part with Obama, you could probably see the tingle run up her legs (no doubt she wished she had been the first to comment on the crease in his pants as no doubt she noticed).