Christopher Buckley on Republicans, Obama

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/18/Uncommon_Knowledge_Christopher_Buckley

Conservative author and columnist Christopher Buckley criticizes the state of the modern Republican Party, and expresses tacit support for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

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Christopher Buckley, former chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush, is the editor at large for ForbesLife magazine.

He is the author of 13 books, including the comic novels Little Green Men, Boomsday, Thank You for Smoking, and, most recently, Supreme Courtship.

In this wide-ranging interview, bouncing from the comic to the serious and back again, Christopher Buckley comments on the new media, politics, Republicans, the war, spending, McCain, Obama, and American life.

After rating the speechifying of Obama, McCain, Palin, and Biden, he concludes with reflections on life with William F. Buckley - Hoover Institution

Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American political satirist and the author of several novels. He is the son of William F. Buckley Jr. and Patricia Buckley. After a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Buckley, like his father, graduated from Yale University, as a member of Skull and Bones. He became managing editor of Esquire Magazine and later worked as the chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. His novels include God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, and, most recently, Supreme Courtship.

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[CognosSquare]

Another one i thought of (variant of anti-skepticism) -intolerant to ambiguity in the group. There has been BIG condemnations for very minute deviations from the agenda.

Just general deviations (or propositions) that seems to be potentially positive OR negative but nevertheless different.

It doesnt seem to take much wordage to be labeled non-conformist or "anti-american". The notion is of course fantastically ridiculous.

[eirefrance]

A genuinly intelligent citizen would put pragmatism before ideology.

[sfafasfasfsa]

@cmovbe Lincoln was a Hamiltonian. the republican party now stands for states rights Lincoln did not. Lincoln stood for infrastructure spending even during war, the republicans do not. Lincoln stood for central banking, raising tariffs (taxes, republicans do not.

democrats were jeffersonians but adapted their populism for the industrial revolution

the orginal republicans hated the excessive government joined with the southern Jeffersonian, and now the few Hamiltonian left are called RINOS

[hookalakah]

"The Obamacons — that’s to say, conservatives hot for Barack- – justify their decision to support a big-spending big-government Democrat with the most liberal voting record in the Senate by “hoping” that he doesn’t mean it, by “hoping” that he’ll “change” in office...

The “change” we’ll get isn’t hard to discern: An expansion of government, an increase in taxes, a greater annexation of the dynamic part of the economy by the sclerotic bureaucracy, a reduction in economic liberty.." --Mark Steyn

[helanmatiu]

No way out man Asian women #lushfmlk.info#

[cmovbe]

That should be "well said Ronald Reagan". The rest is typical libiot hyperbole.

Southern strategy. Gimme a break. Its the same party now as when Lincoln joined to align with principles over the usual libiot remedy and hasnt changed, no matter what unprincipled loser feds inhabit it. And McCain, whatever he was in the past, is no defender of the Constitution. Everyone in DC are oath betrayers.

Oh dear. The whole pointless vid is over. Not that his whole life is worth 5 mins of his dad's.

[SteamboatPolar]

States rights my ass. states rights was an excuse - not a reason.  It was the only excuse ever given for continuing slavery.

Just like Religion -- God's will -- was the only excuse for starting slavery.

Get rid of excuses and bullshit, the world would be much better off.

[openyourmind678]

I wish the republican party still represented the souther states rights platform, then at least we would have less strengthening of a federal government and less wars abroad.

[TedMichaelMorgan]

Well said.

[humanist7117]

Right!

[idicula1979]

The Republican Party is nothing more then a southern strategy carried out on a national level.

John McCain you are a very good man, but the Republican party is nothing more then mass paranoia and mass arrogance massquarading as a national platform and you are not an idealouge. As President Raegen used to say you did not leave the Republican party the Republican party left you.