Posted by
Dawn on Saturday, October 04, 2008 10:38:44 PM
Thank you, Dorothy Parker, for saying those immortal words that convey so much and that will live forever among the greatest one-liners of all time. This evening, my husband and I watched an interview on the Bloomberg Channel which featured Christopher Buckley, most famously known for being the son of William and Pat Buckley. The interview focused primarily on a new book Christopher has written which is about to be published. The main character happens to be a woman from Texas who is being considered for the Supreme Court (not Harriet Miers). In a fortunate turn of timely events, she also shares many of the same attributes as Governor Sarah Palin.
Eventually, the interview turned to presidential politics. The economy, the many glaring failures of the Bush Administration and the flailing of the McCain campaign were bantered about. We watched with interest because there can be no doubt that physically, Christopher is the mirror image of his father! Uncanny resemblence, even as far as his mannerisms. Then for his final crescendo, Christopher Buckley added that it is Obama`s time to be President and that he may even vote for him! Well, you could have knocked us over with a feather!
"The apple doesn`t fall too far from the tree." Maybe not so much under these circumstances. The Conservative ideals that William F. Buckley put into the founding of his once very respected magazine, "The National Review" may be slipping a bit. As is his perrogative, Christopher Buckley is considering to vote for an upstart, one-term, narcissistic US Senator with shady associations, a Marxist Socialist ideology and no record of any achievements -- only because it is "his time".
Not long ago, Ann Coulter referred to "The National Review" as "increasingly irrevelant." She undoubtedly has a point.