Christopher Buckley shows: talent skips a generation

Christopher Buckley - son of William F. Buckley - has decided to help Tina Brown get links for her new venture by posting a clear example of the adage that talent skips a generation (link):

Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon... But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect, President Obama will (I pray, secularly) surely understand that traditional left-politics aren’t going to get us out of this pit we’ve dug for ourselves...

Buckley is beyond delusional if he thinks BHO wouldn't engage in "traditional left-politics". While he's triangulated somewhat, if he becomes president everything is going to be lined up to the left. He'll have a Democratic congress, combined with an exuberant mainstream media that lied to get him elected, combined with his far-left and Chicago associates. About the only opposition would come from a small number of House members. He'd be free to engage in as much "traditional left-politics" as he wanted to.

Further, Buckley is confusing having a "first-class intellect" with "appearing to have a first-class intellect because no one's ever challenged you."

Barack Obama is a serial liar who pushes policies that are incredibly flawed, but no one dares call him on any of it to his face.

Call me egotistical or whatever you want to, but if I ever got to "cross-examine" BHO on immigration matters, he'd probably take his "first-class intellect" and run crying off the stage after five minutes.

P.S. So far I've seen at least Julian Sanchez and David Brooks pushing the same line as Buckley about BHO's "intellect".

Politics · Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:18 · · Importance: 1