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10-10-2008, 10:11 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 25 | A Buckley Endorses Obama for President I can hear the chorus already: "he's not a REAL conservative". Mmm-kay. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ndorses-obama/ No, **** 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. “It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d 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 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," Buckley wrote. I agree in particular with: 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?" It is unfortunate, but McCain put his future in the hands of others - and they ruined it for him. |
10-11-2008, 09:31 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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Rep Power: 29 | Re: A Buckley Endorses Obama for President You know what's funny? I was listening to the heavy metal channel and Megadeth came on and they were singing about over throwing the government...take no prisioners..yadda yadda and immediately thought of EZ Jim and his posts about 2nd Amendment and overthrowing the government and was wondering IS EZ A METAL HEAD?? |
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