Noonan: ‘No One’s Really Listening to the President Now’

Noonan: ‘No One’s Really Listening to the President Now’HT: Matzav.

As President Barack Obama prepares for his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he has already lost his audience, writes Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.

“When I imagine Barack Obama’s State of the Union, I see a handsome, dignified man standing at the podium and behind him Joe Biden, sleeping. And next to him John Boehner, snoring. And arrayed before the president the members, napping,” Noonan wrote Thursday.

“No one’s really listening to the president now. He has been for five years a nonstop wind-up talk machine. Most of it has been facile, bland, the same rounded words and rounded sentiments, the same soft accusations and excuses.”

Noonan continued, “Looking back on this presidency, it has from the beginning been a 17,000 word New Yorker piece in which, calmly, sonorously, with his lovely intelligent voice, the president says nothing, or little that is helpful, insightful or believable.”