Peggy Noonan warns British politician, David Cameron, on the danger of leadership rhetoric:
You can today go to any office of any great leader in America and Britain – business leader, church leader, political leader – and you will find the great topic of conversation, the great focus of attention, the object of daily obsession, is NOT the mission (making money, spreading faith, leading an anxious citizenry in the right direction) but how the mission is playing in the media. It’s all they talk about.
Wow.
Read her full op-ed here.
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Reading Peggy Noonan’s bio, she wrote “Read my lips no new taxes” speech for Pres Bush. Ah history
Yeah I was vaguely familiar with her name, until yesterday. Apparently she wrote a lot of speeches for Reagan as well.