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quotation definitely affirmed it's like twins.........they skip a generation

from Buckleys column

A self-loathing elitist responds.

Let's take a quick look at the tape. What I said in my Daily Beast endorsement of Obama last October was as follows:

"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."

So much for my secular prayers. Maybe I should have tried the old-fashioned kind instead. For now, he is raising taxes and proposing Brobdingnagian government spending and expansion. It would thus seem that I was wrong about him.

he then goes on to say that he was wrong about Bush ignoring the facts of the 9/11 attack

then there is a lot of boring mumbo jumbo (nausiating to read through) about elites. You get the feeling with Buckley that it was mainly one elitist voting for another elitist. Pity those poor unwashed masses of sweltering humanity who can not comprehend what it means to be an elite. No Washington cocktail parties rubbing elbows with the power brokers. With the movers and shapers of our domestic and foreign policies.

He somewhat redeems himself in the last 2 paragraphs although I m none too happy with his first sentence. He still has not grasped the errors of his ideas.

If I had to vote all over again, I'd pull the same lever. Maybe I'm obtuse. Or maybe I just haven't yet entirely given up on the old audacity of hope.

Meanwhile, my fellow elitist David Brooks has issued a clarion call to moderates of all persuasion to rally to prevent Obama from ruining what's left of the U.S. economy. Let us march!

perhaps there is hope for the young Buckley yet. The old man must be turning over in his grave as it seems the apple has fallen far from the tree of the great Conservative thinker

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/06/rush-limbaugh-oba...

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