Peggy Noonan is in Shock
28th May 2010
Freeberg takes a look.
She is brilliant at what she does. But I’ve always had some reservations with what she does.
This is one of the most penetrating analyses I’ve seen in a long time. Read it twice.
Obama doesn’t have it. We haven’t seen Him actually maintain anything, besides relationships; and human emotions being what they are, with relationships you don’t work with the rewards or the wreckage of your work the day before. Obama, from the best information we’ve managed to seize about Him, seems to have spent a lifetime being blissfully insulated from the conditions of things.
Fer chrissakes, we don’t even have a story about a bicycle lovingly maintained, or a household pet. He doesn’t have the “guardian” personality. He is not, by personal inclination, a steward of something. There is no evidence whatsoever to indicate a refinement of the requisite skills, or a personal interest in refining them.
That hits the nail right on the head.