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NR's comment on C. Buckley:
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Here's an excerpt from Buckley's "resignation":
The war issue notwithstanding, how can a guy railing against government expansion support Obama?While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.
Well, here's how (taken from his blog post):
So, while I can't disagree with his assesment of McCain, he endorses Obama because he hopes a left-wing liberal won't govern like one.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.
After reading some of two of Buckley's posts, he sounds like a flake.Comment
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C. Buckley is a smart man but his father he is not.
You are right to point out that his argument for Obama is intellectually inconsistent – a problem WFB, Jr. never suffered from.Comment
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So he pegged one side and completely fell off the cliff with the other? Sounds like most politicians with their everyday practices.Comment
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C. Buckley is fine writer, a good person (I have met both WFB, Jr. and Chris) and a smart man. However, I really don’t care what he thinks about the Presidential race.Comment
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I agree with him. In the Frontline program on the two candidates the other night, I was struck by how often Obama has been willing to hear the other side and work with them even when he held all the power and didn't have to. I don't think he'll take a 50/50 divided nation and pretend he has a mandate as I feel Bush has done.Originally posted by RoyalShock“The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying. But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation. ... Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.'”
― Chris StirewaltComment
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Did you hear what he had to say last night in regards to NAFTA and trade agreements? Particularly the example he made with Korea shipping whatever it was 10 mil cars to the US but the US only sending 4 mil cars there and that that just wasn't good enough. he seemed to be saying that it was going to have to be a better deal for the US. That if we aren't shipping an equal 10 mil cars then we shouldn't have a trade deal with them. Well lets face it Koreans don't need cars like Americans do. How big is Korea and whats its population in relation to the US? IT doesn't make sense to blow a deal like that up to try and get more when it just doesn't make sense. That sounded like he was going to make mandates in regards to trade. And mandates that in my opinion aren't in the best interest of US business.Originally posted by WuzeeComment
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Wait a second. When exactly has Obama "held all the power"? All of what power?Originally posted by Wuzee
To think that a leftist with a Democratic congress won't govern that way is illogical.Comment
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That may have not been the best example, but at least it is on track. The Chinese are the ones that aren't trading fairly, i.e. they send all their junk here and won't take any of our stuff in return.Originally posted by t7017s
Who is probably the best country trade wise? Japan?Comment
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I fear you are wrong about this….he will declare his mandate and have a Democratic Congress to boot.Originally posted by Wuzee
C. Buckley is dead wrong about this – nothing in Obama’s past actions remotely suggests he will govern as a centrist.Comment
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Originally posted by MaggieComment
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Originally posted by RoyalShock
For instance: When he was elected president of Harvard Law Review, there was an expectation from those on the right and left that he would stack the editorial board with minorities and those with left-leaning views. He could have done that, but he didn't. He appointed a board with mixed views and kept a balanced approach to the content.
From a Boston Globe article ...
"You should not underestimate the significance of him being the first black president of the Harvard Law Review because that was and remains a very elite group," said Bell, now a law professor at New York University. "These were some tough folks. . . . It's almost as impressive that he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review as him being elected senator of Illinois."
As editor for two semesters, Obama spent 50 to 60 hours a week holed up in a second-floor office of Gannett House, a 19th century building overlooking Cambridge Common. He reviewed hundreds of articles, on topics ranging from corporate law to racial bias in auto pricing, and presided over long, heated debates in the cluttered first-floor lounge.
"Even though he was clearly a liberal, he didn't appear to the conservatives in the review to be taking sides in the tribal warfare," said Bradford A. Berenson, a former Bush administration lawyer who was an editor at the review.
"The politics of the Harvard Law Review were incredibly petty and incredibly vicious," Berenson said. "The editors of the review were constantly at each other's throats. And Barack tended to treat those disputes with a certain air of detachment and amusement. The feeling was almost, come on kids, can't we just behave here?"
full article:
From Politico.com
... In Obama's time, as it is today, the Harvard Law Review was one of the most important and distinguished legal publications in the world. Founded in 1887, it is the rare self-supporting legal publication compiled and edited completely by students, typically those attending their second or third year at the prestigious school.
After winning a spot on the Review, Obama beat out 18 other contenders to become the first African-American president in the then-103-year history of the Review, and his duties included leading discussions and debates to determine what to print from the mountain of submissions from judges, scholars and authors from across the country, supervising the thorough editing of each issue's contents and giving every article what's known as a "P-read" once it was finally considered ready for publication.
Once a piece is set, the president also sends a letter or fax and makes a follow-up phone call to each author. Federal Judge Michael W. McConnell, who was nominated by President Bush and has frequently been mentioned as one of Bush’s potential Supreme Court nominees, recalls receiving one such letter and call in early 1990 for his article “The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion.”
McConnell told Politico, “A frequent problem with student editors is that they try to turn an article into something they want it to be. It was striking that Obama didn’t do that. He tried to make it better from my point of view.” McConnell was impressed enough to urge the University of Chicago Law School to seek Obama out as an academic prospect.
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Obama's time on the Review mirrored other aspects of his life. Even in the staunchly liberal milieus in which he has spent his entire adult life, Obama has managed to lead without leaving a clear ideological stamp, and to respect — and even, at times, to embrace — opposing views. To his critics, that's a sign of a lack of core beliefs. To his admirers, it's the root of his appeal.
Full story: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11257.html“The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying. But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation. ... Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.'”
― Chris StirewaltComment
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In his experience of actual governnance (state and US Senate), has he "had the power" or embraced the opposing views? What is expected from the president of a publication and that of a president, particularly in the latitude and power of each, aren't comparable in my mind.Comment
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