Obama has right wing nuts pissing on each other's head......I love it. I hated George W. Bush as a president, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy just how flummoxed he always made left wingers. They were beside themselves as Bush kept beating them in elections...even threatening to leave the country.
Anything that gets partisan panties in a bunch.....I take delight in. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Word on Christopher Buckley [Rich Lowry] > > Chris is up with a post at The Daily Beast, "Sorry, Dad, I Was Fired." > I'd like to clarify this "firing" business. Over the weekend, Chris > wrote us a jaunty e-mail with the subject line "A Sincere Offer," in > which he offered to resign his column on NR's back page and said that > if we accepted, there "would be no hard feelings, only warmest regards > and understanding." We took the offer sincerely. Chris had done us the > favor of writing the column beginning seven issues ago on a "trial > basis" (his words), while our regular back-page columnist, Mark Steyn, > was on hiatus. Now, Mark is back to writing again, andI'm delighted > to saywill be on NR's back-page in the new issue. > > Just one other point: Chris says that his Obama endorsement has > generated a "tsunami," that e-mail at NRO has been running "oh, > 700-to-1" against him, and that there's a debate about whether to boil > him in oil or shoot him. Chris is either misinformed or exercising > poetic license. We have gotten about 100 e-mails, if that (a tiny > amount compared to our usual volume), and threats of cancellations in > the single digits (we never like to lose any readers, but circulation > is way up this year). No doubt part of what upset these readers was > the dim view Chris expressed of them in his first Daily Beast post. So > it goes. It's an intense election season and emotions are running > high. We continue to have the highest regard for Chris's talent and > wit, and extend to him warmest regards and understanding. > > UPDATE: The Daily Beast headline has been changed to "Buckley Bows Out > of National Review." > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had gone out of my way in my Beast endorsement to say that I was not > > doing it in the pages of National Review, where I write the back-page > > column, because of the experience of my colleague, the lovely Kathleen > > Parker. > > > > Kathleen had written in NRO that she felt Sarah Palin was an > > embarrassment. (Hardly an alarmist view.) This brought 12,000 livid > > emails, among them a real charmer suggesting that Kathleen's mother > > ought to have aborted her and tossed the fetus into a dumpster. I > > didn't want to put NR in an awkward position. > > > > Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen and I have become BFFs and now > > trade incoming hate-mails. No one has yet suggested my dear old Mum > > should have aborted me, but it's pretty darned angry out there in > > Right Wing Land. > > > > One editor at National Reviewa friend of 30 yearsemailed me that he > > thought my opinions "cretinous." One thoughtful correspondent, who > > feels that I have "betrayed"the b-word has been much used in all > > thismy father and the conservative movement generally, said he plans > > to devote the rest of his life to getting people to cancel their > > subscriptions to National Review. > > > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired > > > > More: > > > > Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became > > clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the > > next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer > > to resign my column there. This offer was acceptedrather briskly!by > > Rich Lowry, NR's editor, and its publisher, the superb and able and > > fine Jack Fowler. I retain the fondest feelings for the magazine that > > my father founded, but I will admit to a certain sadness that an act > > of publishing a reasoned argument for the opposition should result in > > acrimony and disavowal. > > > > My father in his day endorsed a number of liberal Democrats for high > > office, including Allard K. Lowenstein and Joe Lieberman. One of his > > closest friends on earth was John Kenneth Galbraith. In 1969, Pup > > wrote a widely-remarked upon column saying that it was time America > > had a black president. (I hasten to aver here that I did not endorse > > Senator Obama because he is black. Surely voting for someone on that > > basis is as racist as not voting for him for the same reason.) > > > > My point, simply, is that William F. Buckley held to rigorous > > standards, and if those were met by members of the other side rather > > than by his own camp, he said as much. My father was also > > unpredictable, which tends to keep things fresh and lively and > > on-their-feet. He came out for legalization of drugs once he decided > > that the war on drugs was largely counterproductive. Hardly a > > conservative position. Finally, and hardly least, he was fun. God, he > > was fun. He liked to mix it up. > > > > So, I have been effectively fatwahed (is that how you spell it?) by > > the conservative movement, and the magazine that my father founded > > must now distance itself from me. But then, conservatives have always > > had a bit of trouble with the concept of diversity. The GOP likes to > > say it's a big-tent. Looks more like a yurt to me. > > > > While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer > > have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement > > stands for. Eight years of "conservative" government has brought us a > > doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, > > bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, > > ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a > > sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal > > intervention in the Terry Schiavo case. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
