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big conservative backs obama
Published Oct. 13, 2008
This is a repost! It was originally posted by YeahRight! I thought it was worth a repost.
big conservative backs obama
Published Oct. 11, 2008
No, hell has not frozen over, but a Buckley is backing a Democrat for president.
Christopher Buckley, the son of the late conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Friday he's decided to back Barack Obama's White House bid, the first time in his life he will vote Democrat.
“It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.
Buckley, who praised McCain in a New York Times Op-Ed earlier this year and defended the Arizona senator's conservative credentials against wary talk-radio hosts, said McCain is no longer the “real” and “unconventional” man he once admired.
"This campaign has changed John McCain," Buckley wrote. "It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that?
"Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis," Buckley added. "His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"
But Buckley made clear he's not just voting against McCain, praising Obama for his "first-class temperament and first-class intellect."
"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," Buckley wrote.
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GOLO member since July 2, 2007
October 13, 2008 10:42 a.m.
You know some conservatives will vote on just that, being conservative then voting on what's right for this country and real issues at hand. Just like the blog about Obama's faith. Isn't that judging? Who are we to tell someone else they do or do not believe? Ya know? That's very dangerous. I consider myself a very spiritual person. Not religious, but spiritual. Religious folks tend to be rituialistic and not have a true relationship with God. They are based on man made laws. They only care for themselves and very selfish. Kinda like the pharasies and others. I don't believe in homosexuality. I do however, believe in pro-choice when it comes to abortion. I have family members who were raped and were impregnanted by a dirty scum. I would not dare tell them to bring that child in this world. So in cases like that, I believe that it is your choice. Some conservative christians want to control people with such a topic. however, I've examined myself and I am not convicted by it.
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October 13, 2008 10:24 a.m.
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October 13, 2008 9:50 a.m.
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