Posted on 04/29/2009 5:46:51 AM PDT by gridlock
After endorsing the president in October, I think so far he’s living up to expectations.
It’s funny: When you endorse (to use a too-fancy term in my case) a presidential candidate, as I did Barack Obama in this space last October, he sort of becomes your responsibility. Back to that in a moment.
Meanwhile, I am delighted, overall, with our president’s first 100 days. I think he has struck a fine tone overseas (trans: the U.S. is less detested than it has been in recent years). He has exhibited the “first-class temperament” that persuaded me he was the man for the job. He is, as I called him last October, “one cool cat.” (The only time he seems to have gotten “furious” was yesterday, over that idiotic Air Force One photo-op-from-hell over Manhattan.)
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Mr. Obama’s spending worries me greatly. If every president who comes into office doubles the national debt, then we are finished. We are burying future generations (trans: our children) under crushing debt.
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So when our economy collapses after the deficit is doubled, it will be—my bad!
Otherwise, I am with you, Mr. President. Keep up the good work.
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Apparently he really liked the grovelling tours. The bow to the Saudi king must have sent a tingle up his leg.
William F. is rolling in his grave.
Hey Chris don’t bogart that joint pass it on.
Not too much, apparently. Being the idiot son of a great and famous man can be really injurious to the ego, is also apparent.
His poor parents. What a horrible way to dishonor them.
This guy writes like an 8th grader. His father was who?
Good thing there were enough “snips” in there, otherwise this would have called for a barf alert! Can i get an Amen!?
You gotta wonder about that attitude. “Except for spending the country into a ruinous death-spiral, keep up the good work!”
Wrong. If every president increases by, say, 50%, the national debt, as most of them have, we are in trouble. But, if any one of them quadruples it, we are finished. Lets see, which one has quadrupled it?
Sometimes it is a pleasure to excerpt...
William F. was such an eloquent speaker.
So where does all this “hip, cool cat, my bad” drivel come from.
Buckley fils has a new book out so he’s going to be all over the news. I’ve put this silly twit on permanent ignore.
The man-child is crushingly stupid. When Obama promised all those goodies to people during his campaign didn't this man-child with a vacuum filled bell jar for a head realize this was going to happen?
I know I answered my own question.
Amen. I love watching the liberals try to defend their positions when they know in their hearts they are wrong.
He was "furious" only because he thought it might rightfully be traced back to him.
Me too. Maybe if they keep telling themselves they voted for the right guy they'll eventually believe it in their hearts. But i'm not buying Buckley's spew. Even with the "snips" i can read thru the lines.
And i thank you for that!
Yet another Chrissy doing the Obama Tingle. I wonder if he was the guy who fainted at the Obama concert yesterday.
He’s even exceeded the expectations I had for him. I didn’t think he would destroy the country this fast.
Is this guy really dumb enough to believe that O was unaware of where his private plane was yesterday. He is furious(ly) trying to keep his part in ordering it quiet.
Buckley tells us that Obama’s doing a great job, but then says that if every president spends as much as Obama’s spending, it'll destroy the country. IOW, the survival of the country depends on future presidents not doing what Obama is doing, yet he finds Obama to be a great president.
He then dismisses all this by saying that if it all doesn't work out, then, ooops, “my bad”.
That's the type of airheaded valley girl comment I'd expect from Miss McCain. I know that William Buckley declined considerably in his later years, but at least he was always a master of high rhetoric. Now his son endorses an unqualified affirmative action hire for the presidency and smirks that if he sends the country crashing to the ground it's no more of a big deal than that chick in “Clueless” having a fender-bender. “OOOOOPS! My bad!”
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