"The president — every president — works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable,"

All of the elected officials including this miserable excuse for a president, work for the American taxpayers, voters and general populace. Where is the respect they should be showing us who foot the bill to keep everything going? That is lacking in the most glaring way.

In the last paragraph of her column Miss Noonan ascribes some sort of "future time regret" that the liberals will feel when they realize the monster they have created with this disgusting health care bill has destroyed our nation. She gives them too much credit. The current administration cares for nothing but its own agenda which is the creation of a totally socialist country dependent upon big government for everything. They know perfectly well what they hope to accomplish with this naked power grab and real, viable health care reform has nothing to do with it.

These people do not deserve the respect of the American people and should not be in office. I hope and pray that the mighty hand of God will remove them soon.

How is that HOPE 'N CHANGE working out for you now Peggy?????? Pre 2008 Nov. election. Isn't it great that we have a new refreshing, well spoken , articulate , quick on his feet TELEPROMPTER to explain the DETAILS to us?????????????/

Peggy Noonan, from October 30, 2008, is quoted below. Being wise is being able to see a pit before falling into it; she is not wise:

"The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:

"He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he shows good judgment in terms of whom to hire and consult, what steps to take and moves to make. We witnessed from him this year something unique in American politics: He took down a political machine without raising his voice.

[...]

"Whoever is elected Tuesday, his freedom in office will be limited. Mr. Obama is out of money and Mr. McCain is out of army, so what might be assumed to be the worst impulses of each—big spender, big scrapper—will be circumscribed by reality. In Mr. Obama’s case, energy will likely be diverted to other issues. He will raise taxes, of course, but he may also feel forced to bow to a clamorous base with the nonspending items they favor: the rewriting of union law to force greater unionization of smaller shops, for instance, and a return to a'fairness doctrine' that would limit free speech on the air."

Oh, Peggy, how you were singing Obama's praises! Now you are having buyer's remorse? It is too little, too late! Your messianic president is just a clay figure like the rest of us with power given by the delusional individuals who thought/think that socialism/communism is the answer to their prayers. I am sure, you will like your Messiah even more when he is done with "useful idiots" like you.

"What has been lost is so vivid, what has been gained so amorphous, blurry and likely illusory."

Spoken just like the precious princess you are, Peggy. Let me assure you, Peggy, that the great unwashed 0 so long without access to the kind of privilege you take for granted - view something such as, oh, chemotherapy for example, as something other than "amorphous, blurry and illusory."

Glenn Beck may well be insane. I, apparently unlike you, am not qualified to make that call. However, if not for Beck, there are many things that those of us who don't take the time to research before we vote would never know about this president. And Van Jones (you know, the ADMITTED communist) would probably still be one of his closest advisors (he undoubtedly still is, but at least he is no longer on our payroll, at least not directly). Apparently Beck's handicap, if I may use that word, didn't prevent him from seeing through this president at the outset, unlike some people who may not be so afflicted. I am not a rabid Beck fan vut with all the misinformation and lack of information coming from their side, we need people such as Beck.

Glenn Beck runs circles around you with candor, American pride and spirit and oh by the way understands this bill is unconstitutional which you don't want to write about! Take a lesson from the insane one and you might be worth reading.

What baffles me the most about you Peggy, is that you were Reagans' speech writer....(or something to that effect).

Not to leave out, that during the 08' campaign, you were content to believe that Obama had some real potential in leading this country.

When so many in the media were warning everyone who would listen, pointing out all of the things that Obama was, what he believes, and what we could expect to see if he won the office......you were blind to it, including impugning those who did not support him.

Now, it's the opposite.

Though many agree with you on this piece that you have written, and it is commendable, it does make one question as to how you could have been so blindsided by this man, who now holds the oval office.

You might want to reconsider the information that is out there.

If Glenn Beck appears insane to you, Peggy, you are much more of a liberal than I thought. Unlike you, Glenn Beck has accurately predicted every development economically and politically in this country for the past three years, while you swooned over Obama with the rest of the compliant, fifth column media.

It is too bad that people like you, who were supposed to be vigilant, chose to laugh at and ignore us.

Thanks to all the readers comments that revealed to me the history of Peg. I was not ready any of her post back in 2008 so I had no idea how she felt about BO.

The students are becoming the masters. Is it so?

There was a time, years ago, when I found Peggy to be worth reading. Then, apparently, she started thinking of her as one of the "elites." Her vile, hateful commentary during the last election cycle pushed her over the edge, as far as I'm concerned.

Apparently, she enjoys the "cocktail party circuit" among the "elites" and has chosen to sell her soul (figuratively or literally, who can say?). It's not uncommon for that sort of thing to happen, even to the best of us. Power (or the ILLUSION of power, for that matter) corrupts. Peggy Noonan has been corrupted, and is no longer worth paying attention to as a result. But I'm sure that the "right people" invite her to all the "right events," which I'm sure is what matters to her now.

Peggy, in her oh-so-holier-than-thou-because-I'm-an-elite tone, is attacking Mr. Beck in the same fashion that she attacked other people who point out the remarkable lack of clothing on this particular Emperor. Yet, in this very column, when she MAY be beginning to realize how easily she was FOOLED... repeatedly... by the vicious, corrupt, manipulative liar currently sitting in the White House (and by the support mechanism which chose him, groomed him, and now feeds him lines through his teleprompter... or does anyone REALLY think he's actually the one making the decisions?), Peggy derides one of the few people who saw, and told us, about what was really going on.

Peggy... you ignorant *#$#. (With apologies to Jane Curtain.)

Shall we do a line-by-line, item-by-item evaluation of YOUR opinions, your predictions, your commentary, as compared to what's really happened, and of Mr. Beck's opinions, predictions, and commentary?

Let's see... Peggy is consistently WRONG. Her views fail to match with the reality which even SHE must now start to acknowledge isn't what she oh-so-dreamily "wished upon a star" was going to be the case. Mr. Beck is consistently CORRECT. His views, comments, etc, have been proven consistently accurate.

Peggy - views don't match with reality.

Glenn - views do match with reality.

So, Peggy... which one of the two of you is "insane?"

Peggy, even in her worst moments, knows that Beck isn't "insane." But she said that because it will win her invitations to another round of "the right parties" on the local cocktail circuit.

She's totally sold her soul. And thus, she's not worthy of our attention. Let her fade away, and pay her no further attention.