Peggy Noonan: America is divided because Obama is “out there dropping his g’s”

[DonViejo]

The WSJ columnist says the country can't come together until the president starts enunciating properly

SIMON MALOY

Peggy Noonan is worried about America. Again. The Wall Street Journal columnist’s newest worry arises, as is so often the case, from “a conversation this week with an acquaintance of considerable accomplishment in the political and financial worlds” who thinks America is going to break apart into red and blue factions. “I think a lot about the general subject of what deeply divides us,” Noonan writes, “occasionally with a feeling of some alarm.”

Like any pundit worth her salt, Noonan assumes that her own personal sense of alarm is shared by the country as a whole, and after many paragraphs of gauzy ruminations on the nature of political division, she finally arrives at her point: “No nation’s unity, cohesion and feeling of being at peace with itself can be taken for granted, even ours. They have to be protected day by day, in part by what politicians say. They shouldn’t be making it worse. They shouldn’t make divisions deeper.”

And who are we to blame specifically for these deepening divisions?

In just the past week that means:

The president shouldn’t be using a fateful and divisive word like “impeachment” to raise money and rouse his base. He shouldn’t be at campaign-type rallies where he speaks only to the base, he should be speaking to the country. He shouldn’t be out there dropping his g’s, slouching around a podium, complaining about his ill treatment, describing his opponents with disdain: “Stop just hatin’ all the time.”

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[trof]

1. Another pearl clutcher

[rock]

14. I may have the vapors!

[merrily]

2. The great American g dropping divide, aka G-ism! Peggy nails it again!

[hobbit709]

3. Better to drop your "g"s than to to use your brain to play bounce ball, Peggy.

[BklnDem75]

4. Your concern is noted, Peggy

We can't all be as articulate as your crush Duhbya.

[Bragi]

5. Except she has a point

Why does American polspeak now require that all its leaders drop g's, and call everyone from Al Quaeda terrorists and 1 per centers "folks"? Why does everyone in politics now have to adopt language that sounds like Bush-speak?

[Mopar151]

6. Because "folksy" works in American politics. n/t

[kysrsoze]

12. Apparently only if it's caucasian "folksy."

[spanone]

7. she sounds like a well rounded racist. 'slouching around a podium' 'dropping his g's'

piss on peggy

[Ikonoklast]

8. Scary Black Man Syndrome.

Reagan fluffers all have it.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Isn't she the one who spoke of "bullshit narratives"?

. . .regarding Sarah Palin?

[treestar]

10. Why isn't she including Sarah Palin in her criticism of those who drop g's?

I mean if it's bad, it's bad when Sarah does it, too.

[kysrsoze]

13. Of course not! Palin is white. What kills me is, if Palin had said the same thing... no problem.

[kelliekat44]

22. Sara drops g's and t you's in favor of cha's.

[vanlassie]

15. Because Sarah Palin did not have the good taste to HIRE PEGGY.

[dawg]

11. The thing is, he sounds like he's speaking for me when he's dropping those g's.

That's when he's talking about the issues that matter to me.

But once election season is over, he goes back to Washington, re-acquires the speech and mannerisms of a boring, conservative college professor, and resumes his quest for bipartisan consensus. (Although maybe he has finally had enough of that?)

[Eleanors38]

16. Noonang be droppin' her wad.

[JHB]

17. Autoeqquiexcreglutiaphile

One who derives pleasure from swallowing their own horseshit.

[LadyHawkAZ]

18. Another one for the "How many ways can we point out that he's black

without actually using the B-word" file.

[Spirochete]

19. Did he call her

Pe'y Noonan or something?

[surrealAmerican]

20. DUzy

[Aristus]

21. Peggy Noonan, currently to be found draped across a fainting couch...