Christopher Buckley Endorses Obama

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Christopher Buckley, only child of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., has endorsed Barack Obama. From The Daily Beast.

OswaldTheOsprey

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama

[Wowster]

Christopher Buckley, only child of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., has endorsed Barack Obama. From The Daily Beast.

OswaldTheOsprey

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama

Wall Street bailees endorsed Hussein also.

[Vermouth]

1. It's hard to take anyone seriously who calls his father "Dear Pup" and peppers his column with bon mots like "drum roll, please, cue trumpets" and "sigh."

2. He drank the Obama cool-aid.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

[conley]

1. It's hard to take anyone seriously who calls his father "Dear Pup" and peppers his column with bon mots like "drum roll, please, cue trumpets" and "sigh."

2. He drank the Obama cool-aid.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

Kool Aid, Vermouth, Kool Aid. That's how it's spelled. You're showing your Eastern Elitist roots

[Vermouth]

Kool Aid, Vermouth, Kool Aid. That's how it's spelled. You're showing your Eastern Elitist roots

Hahaha ... but what's more elitist than Christopher Buckley drinking it!

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Kool Aid, Vermouth, Kool Aid. That's how it's spelled. You're showing your Eastern Elitist roots

Hahaha ... but what's more elitist than Christopher Buckley drinking it!

Touche!

OswaldTheOsprey

[Peter1469]

1. It's hard to take anyone seriously who calls his father "Dear Pup" and peppers his column with bon mots like "drum roll, please, cue trumpets" and "sigh."

2. He drank the Obama cool-aid.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

Kool Aid, Vermouth, Kool Aid. That's how it's spelled. You're showing your Eastern Elitist roots

Why do you say V is Eastern Elitist?   

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Now Buckley is leaving National Review, a journal of opinion his father founded in 1955. From The American Thinker.

OswaldTheOsprey

[Peter1469]

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008/10/buckley-and-binary-commentariat.html

Here is a good perspective:

I don't disagree with his decision to leave the Republican Party. However, considering the things he's complaining about, why on Earth is he supporting Obama? Sometimes watching the conservative commentariat thrash illogically about is like being a three-dimensional being standing over a community of Flatlanders.

"Republicans bad... therefore Democrats good!"

I have to say it is hard to understand how a conservative who has come to realize that the Republican party is now a left-party concludes that the Democratic party is the better pick.  It doesn't make sense- unless you are only into picking the winning horse.  And that is OK- just be honest about it. 

[OswaldTheOsprey]

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2008/10/buckley-and-binary-commentariat.html

Here is a good perspective:

I don't disagree with his decision to leave the Republican Party. However, considering the things he's complaining about, why on Earth is he supporting Obama? Sometimes watching the conservative commentariat thrash illogically about is like being a three-dimensional being standing over a community of Flatlanders.

"Republicans bad... therefore Democrats good!"

I have to say it is hard to understand how a conservative who has come to realize that the Republican party is now a left-party concludes that the Democratic party is the better pick.  It doesn't make sense- unless you are only into picking the winning horse.  And that is OK- just be honest about it. 

There could be some spite or vengeance involved or maybe he just likes Obama.

OswaldTheOsprey

[Peter1469]

but how could he like Obama's politics?

[OswaldTheOsprey]

but how could he like Obama's politics?

That I do not know.

OswaldTheOsprey

[conley]

i assume he believes -- like most americans -- he is voting for the 'lesser evil'

[conley]

1. It's hard to take anyone seriously who calls his father "Dear Pup" and peppers his column with bon mots like "drum roll, please, cue trumpets" and "sigh."

2. He drank the Obama cool-aid.

But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.

Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have been waiting for” silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.

So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, I’ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

Kool Aid, Vermouth, Kool Aid. That's how it's spelled. You're showing your Eastern Elitist roots

Why do you say V is Eastern Elitist?   

I just made that part up, because various media outlets and pols always paint the eastern elites as some kind of nefarious force behind all that ails america

[conley]

tho it is known that the official drink of skulls and bones is a martini...food for thought