Reply #63: Peggy Noonan is Maureen Dowd on Quaaludes.

[milkyway]

Forgive me for reading this garbage, but what planet is she on? Does she actually believe this crap she's trying to peddle?

No one, no candidate, no party, no heavy-breathing consultant, will want to cross any line--lines that have never been drawn, that are sure to be shifting and not always visible--in approaching the first major-party African-American nominee for president of the United States.

He is the brilliant young black man as American dream. No consultant, no matter how opportunistic and hungry, will think it easy--or professionally desirable--to take him down in a low manner. If anything, they've learned from the Clintons in South Carolina what that gets you. (I add that yes, there are always freelance mental cases, who exist on both sides and are empowered by modern technology. They'll make their YouTubes. But the mad are ever with us, and this year their work will likely stay subterranean.)

LOL! She says the repugs will be very careful not to cross any line if Obama is the nominee. Yeah, right. Then she says it will only be from the freelance mental cases with their YouTubes. Tell her the Swiftboats scum used a television commercial and a book, and they weren't freelance.

And because the Clintons faced a backlash in South Carolina the repugs won't try anything? The voters in the primary were Dems, with more than half of them black. The repugs are worried about the 67% of the South Carolina electorate who aren't Dems.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/SC/P/00/index.html

And I'm only focusing on her comments regarding Obama. The main thrust of the article is about Hillary, and it's just as idiotic.