Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama (Christopher Buckley)

The Daily Beast ^ | 10/10/2008 | Christopher Buckley

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Say Chris, your wit is so incredible. So why don’t you tell my son, who is entering the Marine Corps this November, why you’re voting for a frickin’ communist.

[IbJensen]

His father advised our feckless leaders at the time to surrender the Panama Canal to Panama. This made Jimmy happy.

I canceled my subscription to NR a long time ago due to that utterance by the verbose Buckley.

His son's actions are not surprising. He would rather get the changeover to pure communism just a little more quickly by voting for a Marxist.

[Ancesthntr]

So Sarah Palin is a bad choice for Veep, so that’s a good reason to elect an appeasing Socialist to be the President. Seems to me that Buckley the Younger has a bunch less neurons than his dad, and most of those are misfiring.

[Question_Assumptions]

As someone who supported Sarah Palin as VP before the press started digging into her, who looked into her qualifications and achievements and was well aware of "Troopergate" before McCain selected her (I had written here that I thought it would sink her changes even though I doubt she did anything illegal), I can only assume that these anti-Palin nitwits have learned everything that they know about Sarah Palin from the mainstream media hatchet jobs on her rather than an independent look at her and her achievements. One does not get the highest approval ratings of any governor by being an idiot who does nothing. This is a woman who took down two high-ranking officials of her own party because of ethics, got a gas pipeline that's been languishing for decades finally rolling, restructured oil company taxes so that Alaskans benefit from high oil prices (something you would think the mainstream media would love), vetoed all sorts of wasteful spending, and so on but these idiots would rather believe the mainstream media or, perhaps, The Daily Show, instead. Get your heads out of the Upper West Side media and look at what she's really been up to in Alasks. At least this election is making all of the quasi-right losers who follow in the footsteps of David Gergen crawl out of the woodwork.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You are correct on the barf alert.

[Theophilus]

I pray, secularly

Let me speak for WFB: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!"

I pray to God Almighty that He have mercy on our sons, our fathers and ourselves.

[Question_Assumptions]

One more think I should add is that people in the Northeast confuse speaking quickly and articulatly with being intelligent. It's one of the main reaons why they think people in the South and "flyover country" are stupid. You all speak too slowly so you are obviously stupid according to the conventional wisdom in these parts. That's why they get taken by smooth talkers and despise people who aren't.

[mass55th]

"Or the best parts was left as a stain on the bedsheet............... "

When he was born, they threw away the baby and kept the afterbirth.

[Jibaholic]

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.

That pretty much says it all. He's a Democratic who wants a cut in the capital gains tax.

[PGR88]

What a surprise. His father would not agree AT ALL.

Bill Buckley would oppose Obama on so many levels, they could not be listed in this space. Yet his son says - he supports Obama because he seems to have a nice character (and at the same time pray he doesn’t destroy the country.)

What a lightweight.

[Abe XVI]

It is not “bleeding obvious” to me. When the punditry describes Palin as an “embarrassment”, or a “cancer”, or “dangerous”, I seem to miss the points that lead one to draw these conclusions about her. I guess it is so obvious, that these people don’t feel it necessary to explain themselves.

What is obvious, is that these people are clueless.

[09Patriot]

sounds like crystal Methodist errrr Methodist. but then they are not biblical literist either, they are very liberal

[Billthedrill]

His Dad, rest his soul, had more than a little East-coast arrogance in him as well. What Buckley is really saying here is that he can't identify with either of the Republican candidates but that he can with Obama. There are commonalities - Ivy-league education, movement among the upper social circles, and a sense of entitlement based on no particular achievement whatever.

There are differences, or at least so one might assume: policy, for one, principle for another. If these are less important to Buckley than "oh, he's just like me" then I suggest that states more about Buckley than it does Palin and McCain.

[Drew68]

BTW I apologize for not putting a “barf alert” in the title.

With "Obama" in the title, a barf alert isn't really necessary.

[WilliamReading]

There is one issue in which I think the author is right.

McCain originally opposed the Bush tax cuts (some of which were quite flawed, in my opinion).

Then McCain, in order to get the GOP nomination, supported the Bush tax cuts.

That is a flip-flop in any person’s book.

McCain could help himself by supporting a tax cut on businesses while calling for a tax raise on Millionaires. That’s what the American people want.

[stuartcr]

We should all believe as our parents? What if they were liberals?

[beckett]

Obama is a committed socialist, the doctrine he learned at his mother’s knee. Christopher Buckley learned a very different doctrine at his father’s knee, but it appears his commitment is more, shall we say, flexible. Where the father loved to puncture the pretensions of the New York intellectual and literary elite, the son has been captured by them, and moves steadily in the direction of willingly doing their bidding.

It’s not that shocking really. He’s not his father, and can never be 1/10th of what his father was.

[what's up]

This guy is voting because he perceives McCain to have changed a little in the last year?

And he sees Hussein as having a superior "TEMPERMENT"?

Has he thought about the hundreds of appointees Hussein will make?

Has he thought about the fact that Hussein has never reached across the aisle?

Has he thought about the fact that Hussein has almost no real experience?

This Buckley is F-L-A-K-E-Y !!!!!!!!!!

[stuartcr]

You really should make up your own mind on the issue.

[beezdotcom]

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