GREAT QUOTE FROM PEGGY NOONAN

"In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you can't buy courage and decency, you can't rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him... He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a "vision" of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character-- the courage and heart-- to see it through."

This was said by Ms. Noonan several years ago, before she became what seems to me to be unhinged. It applies to Sarah Palin and to John McCain as well. Senators Obama and Biden? Not so much.