Posted on 10/11/2008 3:14:03 PM PDT by Urbane_Guerilla
I’m out of the loop. What’s he done?
Nice story. Christopher Buckley better stock up on hash on election day, he’s gong to need it.
Does he own National Review now? Can he fire himself?
he’s supporting obama
what’s his forum?
He endorsed Obama with the heretical headlline: Sorry Dad, I’m voting for Obama. He’s a loser, maybe he can hook up with Ronald Reagan Jr. and do what comes natural to them.
I’m out of the loop. What’s he done?He endorsed Obama.
I'm really surprised at how many conservative intellectuals have thrown the Mccain/Palin ticket under the bus. Win or lose there's going to be some serious bloodletting in the republican establishment after this election.
Author on the talk show circuit...son of a famous conservative.
WFB had gone pretty hard against the Iraq war, when the times tried mens’ souls.
The Buckley clan has been rocked lately. Chris has a kid from a fling he had outside marriage. Big Bill cut the grand kid out of his will in a particularly odd way — “He’s dead to me...”
loved your writing there. very similar background but not quite as harsh. makes me think of the great Ronald Reagan and the ingrate, mentally impoverished (not retarded) natural children that he had. Such a great man, such piss poor progeny. i think they both took after their mother more than him.
oh well. genetics is not everything after all. great people arise from poor homes and great homes produce poor minds. thanks for the post.
Here’s an article about the child. The last 2 paragraphs about the will don’t make William F. look any better than Chris.
The Buckley clan has been rocked lately. Chris has a kid from a fling he had outside marriage. Big Bill cut the grand kid out of his will in a particularly odd way — “He’s dead to me...”WFB was a brilliant conservative thinker, but he was a narcissistic bassbowl. His son is no different. But Chrissy B does know Mccain better than most. He worked as a speechwriter for Juan.
Ooops! Forgot the link...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10052008/news/nationalnews/no_love_child_of_buckley_132230.htm
one thing has always puzzled me about WFB: Why did he affect an English accent his entire life? I’m sure this was not his natural way of speaking, since I’ve never heard a native Nutmegger talk that way.
Per Rush Limbaugh: The biggest problem of rich people is their kids. Maybe that’s why he has never had kids.
If that article is accurate, then William Buckley is to be condemned. And if the entire Buckley family are wealthy jack asses, then so be it. I suppose all I can claim, is William Buckley’s good inspiration to me, regardless of how he was personally.
He died of emphysema, and is quoted as saying he hoped government would ban tobacco. That is an absurd rejection of his entire life’s thinking. It is a rejection of personal responsibility unworthy of him.
It does not change the point of my post. If anything, it corroborates it. Great wealth is spiritually debilitating.
I do not doubt Chrissy’s evaluation of McCain. Who needed to hear from Chrissy to know about that?
The Obama endorsement, though, is pure high school peer pressure wealthy elitist lack of principle.
Chrissy thinks he is groovin’.
one thing has always puzzled me about WFB: Why did he affect an English accent his entire life? I’m sure this was not his natural way of speaking, since I’ve never heard a native Nutmegger talk that way.Because WFB fancied himself to be an aristocrat.
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