A helpful sampling of The One's deep thoughts.
Well, might as well establish the proper mood:
And in New York, an interesting Freudian slip (H/T: Captain Heinrichs).
Update: Christopher Buckley - son of William F., Jr. - has endorsed Obama. Big Lizards responds with a scathing takedown.
Update II: Hollis French, the head of the legislative panel that set out to get Palin, has kind of an ethical problem of his own.
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The great pity is that, if we had a fair and balanced media, The One's deep thoughts and those of his running mate would be known to all.
Our ABC's brief report on the first Palin-Biden debate:
"Palin surprised everyone by managing to get through the debate 'gaffe-free'".
Let's not forget the Obama Channel, please.
h/t Andrea Harris
And regarding Chris Buckley.....pray tell, how does one pray secularly?
William Buckley is spinning in his grave, I expect.
RJ: Christopher Buckley - who is a talented novelist, incidentally - renounced the Catholic beliefs in which he had been brought up some years ago; possibly he has renounced religion altogether, which would account for the odd formulation. The rationale he has provided for endorsing Obama strikes me as extraordinarily lame, and is the kind of rubbish that his father would have shredded in probably two or three sentences. I fail to see how someone with a "first class intellect" gets a free pass for peddling ideas that, presumably, he knows are unworkable; this implies, at least, a thoroughly dishonest and cynical personality.
Skeeter: The media have always been biased in favor of the Democrats, but it is the most blatant this election that I have ever seen.
paco, calling Buckley's explanation "lame" is being kind. "Bizarre" comes much closer. "Crazy" might be going too far.....but not much, I think.
RJ: "Crazy" works for me.
I greatly enjoy young Buckley's novels and strongly recommend them (perhaps a future topic from the Paco library?). His political commentary, however, I have always found lackluster. Young Master Christopher ought not attempt following in his father's footsteps in that regard - he just throws his own meager gifts in that arena into sharp relief.
So disregard his commentary, is my advice, and focus instead upon his fiction. Well worth reading.
Steve: Very true; credit where credit is due. He is a great comic novelist, and he also authored an excellent adventure story called Wet Work, about a tycoon who gets revenge on the people who got his grand daughter hooked on drugs (from the boyfriend who gave her the overdose to the drug dealers in South America who peddled the stuff).
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