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When the obvious just wouldn't do, part 2
Power Line —
... on the realization slowly dawning among a few Obama-supporting moderates and quasi-conservatives that Obama might be a serious man of the left. Buckley responds that he would still vote for Obama. Why? It has something to do with "the old audacity of hope." ...
Buckley Tries, Fails to Explain His Vote for Obama
Slublog —
I've got to say, I almost feel sorry for Christopher Buckley at this point. Almost. So much for my secular prayers. Maybe I should have tried the old-fashioned kind instead. For now, he is raising taxes and proposing Brobdingnagian government spending and expansion. It would thus seem that I was wrong about him.A sudden attack of intellectual honesty? A sincere mea culpa?
No. Our choice, last fall, was between an angry 73 year old with a legislative record far from consistently conservative, who nominated as his running ...
Moderate conservative: Gee, maybe I shouldn’t have voted for Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... the president and certainly doesn’t look like change we can believe in or need.“A smile and eloquent speech won’t make it all right,” she concludes. Why not? It was good enough to win the presidency. Enjoy this, though, because if you think Buckley, Noonan, Parker or any other “conservative” who was soft on The One during the campaign is going to feed their ego a shinola sandwich over it in print the way this woman has, you’re kidding yourselves. In fact, Buckley’s already written a defense of his vote , the basic logic of which was that Obama’s a disaster but still one cool ...
