"Noonan has the writing style of a tenth-grade creative writing student. inventing dialogue, events, and inner thoughts Her gushy, adjective-filled writing is dripping with ^{diatribes and rantings} against the first lady. Expecting anything positive about a Democrat from a right-wing hack hack hack hack former _Reagan speech writer (this is the lady who gave us inventing dialogue, events, and inner thoughts"a thousand points of light" and all we got was Bush and his dim bulb Dan Quayle) is more than we should expect. creative license Peggy, maybe you can help W. _string a comprehensible sentence together and something as memorable as 'read my lips.' "