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Peggy Noonan: "No Class"

Once again, she nails it.

"This is what I feel you have to think about. You can make your life sick and small, you can fill it with poison, when you turn everything into politics. And what makes me sad is not that you used my death to get out the vote. It's not that you were cold. It's that the only way you could show any warmth was through politics."

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"I want you to sit down for a minute and look at yourself. If you operate each day in politics with anger and resentment and finger pointing--"We're compassionate, the other guy's a bum"--it doesn't just reflect on your politics, it reveals your politics. It shows that what you say is a desire for justice is really a desire to push people around--"I hate those comfortable people, let's hurt 'em."

That's just envy and revenge and resentment. That's just small-time, small-bore nothing.

When you say you believe in good things but you give yourself license to be vicious in the pursuit of the good--well, you corrupt more than yourself.

It's no good."

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