Peggy Noonan critiqued the State of the Union Address in her Wall Street Journal column. Of Obama's words regarding healthcare, she concluded:
She ended with some quotes from a man whom she describes as "a friendly acquaintance of the president, a Republican who bears him no animus." Here's the final paragraph.
The battle over the president's health-care plan is over, and the plan will not be imposed on the country. Waxing boring on the virtues of the bill was a rhetorical way to obscure the fact that it is dead....The bill will now get lost in the mists and disappear. It is a collapsed soufflé in an unused kitchen in the back of an empty house. Now and then the president will speak of it to rouse his base and remind them of his efforts.
She ended with some quotes from a man whom she describes as "a friendly acquaintance of the president, a Republican who bears him no animus." Here's the final paragraph.
"I hope we have big changes in 2010," the friend said. Only significant loss will force the president to focus on spending. "To heal our country we need to get the arrogance out of the White House and the elitists out of the Congress. We need tough love. We need a real adult in the White House because we don't have adults in the Congress."
Career-wise, I've been hanging around and writing about and cheering on churches and pastors for the past 25 years as my denomination's Communications Director.
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