November 09, 2007

Some Morning Peggy to Cleanse the Pallate

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Peggy Noonan: Mrs. Clinton, I knew Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher is a friend of mine. You, Ma'am, are no Margaret Thatcher.


MMMMmmmmm, Peggy........

Yips! from Robbo: I know I've told this story before but I'm gonna do it again anyway. After I graduated from college in '87, I managed to wangle a year's stint as a research assistant in Parliament. (Technically it was for a Labour member, but he was a sort of proto-typical Tony Blair New Labour guy and anyway it was a year in London so who really cares, right?) Anyhoo, a couple times I managed to grab passes to go see Prime Minister's Question Time when the Iron Lady was at the peak of her powers. Abso-freakin-lutely phenomenal.

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Comments

Trying to imagine Shrillary delivering that famous line, "The lady's not for turning"... No, can't see it.

Posted by: Boy Named Sous at November 9, 2007 12:49 PM

mmmm, Dame Thatcher.

Constitutional issues aside, I wouldn't mind President Margaret Thatcher. She'd be better than any of the current crop of pretenders.

Posted by: rbj at November 9, 2007 01:21 PM

Lady Thatcher taped her eulogy for Reagan's funeral well in advance in case she would not too frail to deliver it with the power it deserved. She carried the dress she selected for the state funeral with her whenever she left London, in case Reagan died and there would not be enough time to go home to get it. The TIME cover from mid-1983 Tory landslide said it all: "Maggie by a mile". A class act.

Posted by: LMC at November 11, 2007 12:38 PM