28 August 2008

Peggy Noonan's Convention

From today WSJ, two highlights without comment:

By the way, the best line of the convention so far? Ted Strickland of Ohio, when he echoed the 1988 Democratic convention joke about George H.W. Bush, that he was born on third and thought he hit a triple. Strickland said of George W. Bush that he was born on third and then stole second. It didn't get much attention in any of the commentary, but it's all people were talking about in the bars of Denver that night.

I'll end with Ted Kennedy's speech. It was a small masterpiece of generosity. Not only that he showed up, not only that he spoke, but that with every right to speak of himself and his career, with every right to speak about his family and his memories and the lessons he's learned and the great things he's seen, with all the right to dwell on those things he produced: a speech about Barack Obama. Telling America to vote for him. How classy was that? Very.



Sharp commentary, though I think she is wrong about Michelle O.

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At 28 August, 2008 21:11, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, you are too right about her analysis of Michelle Obama's speech! What, are we stick in the '50s? Or maybe not all of us (women), but political spouses? I wonder what Noonan made of Cherie Blair, who kept practicing law even though her husband was PM of Britain, even when the case she was working on was in opposition to Blair's own policies!

 

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