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Iowahawk: As a Conservative, I Must Say I Do Quite Like the Cut of this Obama Fellow's Jib
Iowahawk | 10/30/2008 | David Burge

Posted on 10/30/2008 1:47:56 PM PDT by dighton

By T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII
Columnist, The National Topsider
Membership Chairman, The Newport Club

When my late father T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI founded the iconoclastic conservative journal National Topsider in 1948, he famously declared that “Now is the time for all good conservative helmsmen to hoist the mizzen, pour the cocktails, and steer this damned schooner hard starboard.” In the 60 years since he first uttered it after one-too-many Cosmopolitans at one of Pamela Harriman’s notorious foreign policy black tie balls, father’s pithy bon mot has served as a rallying cry for conservatives from Greenwich to Chevy Chase. Today, I say it’s time for we conservatives to once again grab the rigging and set sail with the flotilla of the true conservative in this race: Barack Obama.

Trust me, I haven’t taken this tack lightly. No Van Voorhees has supported an avowed socialist since great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandpapa Cragmont Van Voorhees lent Peter Minuet $24 and a sack of wampum to swing a subprime mortgage on Manhattan Island. Old dad himself often recounted how, as a lad, he would command the family chauffeur Carleton to drive the Duesenberg down to the Times Square Trans-Lux so he could hiss Roosevelt. But I’ve taken a good measure of this Obama fellow, and I must say I like the cut of the man’s jib.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: christopherbuckley; iowahawk; obama
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1 posted on 10/30/2008 1:47:56 PM PDT by dighton
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To: EveningStar; aculeus; Billthedrill; Constitution Day; martin_fierro; Petronski; Ezekiel; ...

Pinging the Four Hundred.


2 posted on 10/30/2008 1:52:33 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dighton

Beautiful satire.


3 posted on 10/30/2008 1:53:18 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: dighton

I’m confused.
As a general rule, anyone who uses more than 3 names, I find hard to take serious.

Also, anyone who dosen’t use all three they have...

Even more so if they sound, well, Muslim.


4 posted on 10/30/2008 1:55:40 PM PDT by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: dighton

Funny satire. Good find.


5 posted on 10/30/2008 1:55:52 PM PDT by xroadie
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To: dighton

Oh my goodness, don’t know what to make of this, am getting dizzy, must sit down.


6 posted on 10/30/2008 1:56:14 PM PDT by Peter Horry (Mount Up Everybody and Ride to the Sound of the Guns .. Pat Buchanan)
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To: Maelstorm

Satire? Ok, I’m no longer confused.

Now I can laugh.


7 posted on 10/30/2008 1:57:53 PM PDT by ChetNavVet (Build It, and they won't come!)
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To: dighton

Speaking as someone who actually owns and uses several jibs, I definitely don’t like Zero’s.


8 posted on 10/30/2008 1:58:43 PM PDT by pbear8 (I have plenty of credit, there is no crunch)
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To: dighton

Excellent post. Stout fellow!


9 posted on 10/30/2008 1:59:12 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Eschew exclamatory abuse.)
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To: dighton

” reported the growing dismay of the Continental Right over Palin’s embarrassing enthusiasm for childbirth and Israel. “

What ho!


10 posted on 10/30/2008 2:01:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Maelstorm
I'm trying to figure out who was the victim of the satire. It was like a satire cluster bomb with more than enough for everyone.

Although I would love to be invited to the White House for mooseburgers and snow machine races through the Rose Garden.

11 posted on 10/30/2008 2:01:37 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: Spread the Wealth = Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs)
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To: dighton

Biff and Muffy gave it two trust-funds up!


12 posted on 10/30/2008 2:02:28 PM PDT by hometoroost (...the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo)
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To: Peter Horry

The cut of Obama’s jib is that he is a sail in whatever wind that blows if he thinks it’s going to win the race. That’s hardly a substitute for a skilled hand at the helm when sailing through a war and rough economic waters.


13 posted on 10/30/2008 2:03:50 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: dighton
Why Peggy, you old dowager," I quipped, "I believe you just had an orgasm."

Hysterical stuff. Very cutting.

14 posted on 10/30/2008 2:04:54 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Maelstorm

Tongue in cheek? This fellow swallowed the damn thing! Hilarious!!


15 posted on 10/30/2008 2:05:59 PM PDT by refermech
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To: dighton
"Why Peggy, you old dowager," I quipped, "I believe you just had an orgasm."

Oh man, Iowahawk is the king of blog comedy! lad I had swallowed my coffee before I read that!

16 posted on 10/30/2008 2:06:13 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.******)
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To: dighton

Hilarious! More please!


17 posted on 10/30/2008 2:07:20 PM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: dighton

This guy is a master.


18 posted on 10/30/2008 2:07:52 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: KarlInOhio

The direct target is Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley’s son who endorsed Obama (in part because he thought Palin was a twit) and was promptly booted from the staff of National Review.


19 posted on 10/30/2008 2:12:30 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (*******It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.******)
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To: dighton

I can’t decide which one is better, this piece or the recent “I Am Bill”:

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/10/i-am-bill.html


20 posted on 10/30/2008 2:13:55 PM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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