[lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan waxes weird

Dorene Cornwell dorenefc at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 16:02:54 PDT 2008


The writing is entertaining even if the thinking is muddled.

But maybe she's angling to keep having a punditry career under the new regime.

DC

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:34 PM, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:


>
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 3:41 PM, shag wrote:
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> At 12:19 PM 10/31/2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>>> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html>
>>>
>>
>>
>> that *was* a bizarre essay.
>>
>>
> Among other things the article said ...
>
> "Our last Democratic president knew what that issue was, and knew by nature
> how to speak of it. Bill Clinton famously said, over and over, that abortion
> should be "safe, legal and rare." The "rare" mattered. It set a tone, as
> presidents do, and made an important concession: You only want a medical
> practice to be rare when it isn't good."
>
> Should be 'You only want a medical procedure to be rare when it isn't
> necessary' . Abortion is obviously necessary until socialism provides
> support for mothers.
>
> martin
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