A PEGGY NOONAN REBUTTAL

I DARE TO REFUTE PEGGY NOONAN, A CHAMPION OF TWO OF MY DECEASED HEROES POPE JOHN PAUL II AND FORMER PRESIDENT, RONALD REAGAN. UNFORTUNATELY, A SMART WRITER AND THINKER SUCH AS PEGGY NOONAN, HAS 'GONE OFF THE DEEP END' INTO COMMON NONSENSE. I QUESTION HER REASONINGS AND REVERENCE OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING FUNERAL, WHICH SHE FELT WS A VEHICLE FOR FUN AND FREEDOM. I WONDER WHY ANY HEROINE WOULD WARRANT AN OVER-THE-TOP SIX HOUR MEMORIAL OTHER THAN TO SERVE POLITICAL AND POLITICALLY CORRECT ENDS, ENDS WHICH COULD NOT BE SELF-SERVING BECAUSE THE GOOD LIFE HAS ALREADY BEEN LIVED. MRS. KING'S CEREMONY INCLUDED OBVIOUS, NUMEROUS, POLITICAL MOMENTS. INSPIRED BY A BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AN ORCHESTRATED CONVENTION EMERGED. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ACCUSATION THAT BUSH LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTON WAS FOLLOWED BY MINUTES OF APPLAUSE. EVEN IF MRS. KING OPPOSED THE WAR, WHY WAS THIS RALLYING CRY NECESSARY? ANOTHER MORE BLATANT EXAMPLE WAS THE BEHAVIOR OF FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AND HIS ASPIRATIONAL (TO THE OVAL OFFICE) WIFE HILLARY, WITH OBVIOUSNESS, EACH UNVEILED A 2008 POLITICAL CAMPAIGN BY A SPEECH FILLED WITH PARTY PANDERINGS STRAIGHT FROM THEIR CROOKED HEARTS. BOTH OF THEIR PRESENTATIONS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY CALCULATED HAND GESTURES AND TELLING GLANCES. YES, THE MEMORIAL SERVICE CONTINUALLY PUT THE LORD AND HIS BIBLE UP FRONT AND PERSONAL. BUT THE REPETITIVE, RELIGIOUS ALLUSIONS WERE CLOYING AND POLITICALLY OVER-INDULGENT. GODLY STOICISM WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. ACCORDING TO PEGGY, THE SERVICE WAS JOYFUL FUN; SHE PRAISED THE LORD FOR ITS EVIDENT, FREE SPEECH. SHE SAID, "THIS WAS THE AUTHENTIC SOUND OF A VIBRANT DEMOCRACY DOING ITS THING." HOW AUTHENTIC IS UNFETTERED PANDERING TO THE PASSIONS OF THE FUNERAL PATRONS? HOW AUTHENTIC ARE POLITICAL BACKBITINGS AND UNPATRIOTIC ACCUSATIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD?

I RETURN TO MRS. CLINTON BRIEFLY. BUMPKIN POLITICIAN DAVY CROCKETT EXPOSED AND REVILED THE HYPOCRISY OF ANDREW JACKSON, A PAST PRESIDENT REVERED BY SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND BY LATER HISTORIANS. I WISH COMMON AMERICANS COULD SEE THROUGH THE DECEPTIVE GLOW SURROUNDING HILLARY CLINTON. IT CAMOUFLAGES A HELLISH, DARK, MANIPULATIVE, INTERIOR PLACE FROM WHICH SHE DRAWS UP HER POLITICAL BATTLE PLANS. I HOPE I AM THE FIRST, BUT NOT THE LAST, OBSERVER TO PRAISE THE LORD FOR GIVING ME INSIGHT INTO MADAME HELLARY, WHO, FAR AND AWAY, HAS NEVER BEEN A HILLARY.