Posted on 11/05/2008 8:20:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
Well, who’d have thought one would live to see the day, when America elected its first Muslim president? Allahu akbar, indeed.
Okay, okay.Forgive me for being a bit giddy. It’s just that after re-reading Obama’s stunning victory speech, and McCain’s superb concession speech, I’m a bit overcome with a sensation alien to the practicing (indeed, licensed) political satirist: pride in our leaders and country.So a quick joke in arguable taste seemed the only corrective measure at hand.We shall return to normal programming, as we used to say in the early days of TV.
Meanwhile, let us take a moment and pat ourselves on the collective back.Or, to quote our President-elect: “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”
But now, my friends (as Senator McCain would say), I must soon revert to my quondam role as abuser and ridiculer of those in power.
Man, that son-of-a-gun can give a speech. I can hardly wait for the inaugural. BTW, or perhaps not btw, it was a speech that got him here in the first place: at the Democratic convention in 2004. I remember watching him, riveted (I was a speechwriter myself, in the Coolidge administration), thinking, “Wow. Where did this guy come from?” I wrote in the New York Times (I know, I know: the height of vanity, quoting yourself): “Barack Obama is the Tiger Woods of American politics.” Ahem. You read it there first.
But now, my friends (as Senator McCain would say), I must soon revert to my quondam role as abuser and ridiculer of those in power.No more Mr. Nice Guy. I shall immediately begin fault-finding.Within a week of Bill Clinton’s win in 1992, the excellent Dave Barry began referring to “the failed Clinton administration.” So it shall be with me.
Meanwhile, Mr. President-elect, my warmest congratulations. You make me—this is absurd, my eyes are watering—proud to be an American.
And Senator McCain, you are a great American and you went out in style. Congratulations to you, sir. Well done. Well done, America.
Who is this irrelevant hack and why is he being posted here?
You aren’t crazy. If Obama was a Republican he’d be given the Dan Quayle treatment. The King really is naked.
PUKE!
Agreed.
Let’s just say that if NR didn’t accept Buckley’s resignation, my cancellation notice would have been tendered immediately. If Buckley is ever at the point of starving (which doesn’t seem likely looking at his fat face), he’d better not knock on my door. There will be no crusts of bread for him. Just a boot in the rear. Thank God I never bought any of his books.
I guess Christo won't be picking up the mantle of leader of the Conservative movement anytime soon.
Wait...can this...could this...be...satire?
I'm beyond subtlety right now.
That’s what I’ve been thinking, too. I honestly don’t think he’s a good speaker, he’s very wooden and has a shrill tone to his voice, his “black” accent is ludicrous, and in addition, whoever writes his speeches produces stuff that doesn’t even make sense. Yet he makes people like Christopher Buckley and Peggy Noonan swoon. I truly don’t understand it.
Sydney Greenstreet or Claude Rains could play the role in the movie version.
He needs to read Evelyn Waugh again if he can't find anything to satirize about a
Kenyan-Indonesian ex-Muslim Fabian Socialist follower of Saul Alinsky from
Harvard becoming President of the United States.
This is some of the dumbest horse waste ever written. Eat it Buckley.
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