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  • Sorry, Dad, Im Voting for Obama - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

    Love this piece by Christopher Buckley! I could not have said it better myself, but it means a lot more coming from him! From the page: But that was -sigh- then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, We came to Washington to change it, and... more

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  • Rated by ArachneJericho on Oct 17 2008, 6:41pm

    C. Buckley: "Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance."

  • Rated by steco on Oct 15 2008, 11:23am

    From the page: "The son of William F. Buckley has decidedâ€"shock!â€"to vote for a Democrat. Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. Itâ€s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. Theyâ€d cut off my allowance."

  • Rated by indogitrust on Oct 14 2008, 5:45pm

    Love this piece by Christopher Buckley! I could not have said it better myself, but it means a lot more coming from him! From the page: But that was -sigh- then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.ť This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget by the end of my first term. Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking? All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even tragic, for America ought, really, to be governed by men like John McCain- who have spent their entire lives in its service, even willing to give the last full measure of their devotion to it. If he goes out losing ugly, it will be beyond tragic, graffiti on a marble bust. As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a first-class temperament, ť pace Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s famous comment about FDR. As for his intellect, well, he's a Harvard man, though that's sure as heck no guarantee of anything, these days. Vietnam was brought to you by Harvard and (one or two) Yale men. As for our current adventure in Mesopotamia, consider this lustrous alumni roster. Bush 43: Yale. Rumsfeld: Princeton. Paul Bremer: Yale and Harvard. What do they all have in common? Andover! The best and the brightest. I've read Obama's books, and they are first-rate. He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine. He is also a lefty. I am not. I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I'm libertarian. I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P.J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

  • Rated by cirrostratus on Oct 14 2008, 4:08pm

    From the page: "The son of William F. Buckley has decided (shock!) to vote for a Democrat. "Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. Itâ€s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive."They'd cut off my allowance." Even conservatives (the non-brain dead ones) are finding it difficult to stomach 2008's bizzaro McCain and pathological Palin.

  • Rated by DrBlizzardo on Oct 14 2008, 2:07pm

    From the page: "Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It's a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They'd cut off my allowance."

  • Rated by bonbonnie on Oct 12 2008, 10:01am

    . Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama by Christopher Buckley , Web site The Daily Beast (CNN) No, hell has not frozen over, but a Buckley is backing a Democrat for president. Christopher Buckley, the son of the late conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Friday he's decided to back Barack Obama's White House bid, the first time in his life he will vote Democrat. Its a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. Theyd cut off my allowance, Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday. Buckley, who praised McCain in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this year and defended the Arizona senator's conservative credentials against wary talk-radio hosts, said McCain is no longer the real and unconventional man he once admired. This campaign has changed John McCain, Buckley wrote. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis, Buckley added. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking? But Buckley made clear he's not just voting against McCain, praising Obama for his first-class temperament and first-class intellect. Obama has in himI think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rhetoricthe potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for, Buckley wrote.