If you don’t get the pun in the title of this post, then skip the rest and move on. There will be other posts to follow.
The scion of the late conservative thinker and writer William F. Buckley, Christopher, is perhaps causing his father to roll over in his grave by endorsing Barack Obama.
But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves. If he raises taxes and throws up tariff walls and opens the coffers of the DNC to bribe-money from the special interest groups against whom he has (somewhat disingenuously) railed during the campaign trail, then he will almost certainly reap a whirlwind that will make Katrina look like a balmy summer zephyr.
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.
Go read the entire post. I’m not so sure the old man would be that much in disagreement.
