William F. Buckley's son, the writer Christopher Buckley, announced his support for Barack Obama. In Tina Brown's The Daily Beast, Buckley writes:
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.
Or would they?...
...Dear Pup once said to me sighfully after a right-winger who fancied himself a WFB protégé had said something transcendently and provocatively cretinous, “You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.” Well, the dear man did his best. At any rate, I don’t have the kidney at the moment for 12,000 emails saying how good it is he’s no longer alive to see his Judas of a son endorse for the presidency a covert Muslim who pals around with the Weather Underground...
...John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic... 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...
...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.
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10 comments:
Oh my gosh! Now Obama is palling around with conservatives!
I'm afraid that Mr. McCain will be laughed into oblivion in November. A said end for the guy. But it's his own doing.
Nice piece by Roger Ebert on, again, "conservative."
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/
Thinly veiled racist comments will be removed by Rebel Girl who has really, really had enough folks.
She won't even allow herself to be pulled into a debate about what is or isn't - she will just exert her blogging privileges and pull them into the dumpster.
Those who wish to exercise what they probably think of as wit (ha ha ha) should get their own blogs - it's free and takes only a few minutes. Post away there.
Hey Reb,
Then why don't you remove those videos YOU etal posted that contain BLATENT racist comments and scenes?
Not a chance for that though because it conveniently serves your anti McCain/Palin agenda.
It's her blog, not yours, fella.
Besides, if you can't tell the difference between commentary presented via the blog posts and the videos and the casual race baiting in the comments, well, she's right, get your own blog where you can wank off all you want.
12:13 DtB have become an electronic Fahrenheit 451.
4:25's comment could have been written only by someone who fails to grasp the critique of power in Bradbury's book.
Give me a break.
DtB - afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted - and yeah, you can delete the racist comments on my behalf as well, you'll get no complaint from me.
If you don't like it here (and not every blog is for everybody) why don't you start your own blog or visit the fellas over at the New Republic and catch up on all their latest racist nicknames for Barack Obama - I'm sure you're a little behind the times.
4:33 Palin never banned any writing. DtB did.
This blog is part of the Buffalo Commons. It is not paid for therefor it is not property. Push the delete key until your fingers bleed, you won't silence the truth.
DtB has become what it despises.
torabora, how right you are.
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