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Tue Oct 14 23:47:33 EDT 2008

More news:

"CNN-
MChristopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, said
Tuesday he's resigned from the conservative National Review days after
endorsing Barack Obama's White House bid, among the most powerful symbols
yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.

In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his resignation
from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some
National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the Illinois
senator.

"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,"
Buckley wrote.

"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," he also
wrote.

The resignation comes four days after Buckley formally endorsed Obama on the
Web site The Daily Beast, writing the presidential campaign had made John
McCain "inauthentic," and Obama appeared to have a "first-class temperament
and first-class intellect."

In a statement posted on the publication's Web site Tuesday, National Review
editor Rich Lowry noted Buckley was writing for the magazine on a trial
basis, and took his offer to resign with the "warmest regards and
understanding" sincerely. Lowry also took issue with Buckley's contention
the magazine had been flooded with angry mail over Buckley's endorsement,
saying it had received a relatively small 100 e-mails expressing
disapproval.

"It's an intense election season and emotions are running high," Lowry
said."

Emotions running high?  I'll say.  

Ben C.

hparsons wrote:
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Are you aware of what some Bible passages have to say about doing away 
> with other races, certain races being God's chosen, what should be done 
> with people that commit certain acts, etc? Is it your assertion that we 
> shouldn't use the Bible because of those passages?
> 
> Are you aware of what some of our founding fathers said and did during 
> their times?  Is it your assertion that their quotes should not be used 
> as well?
> 
> Are you aware that Obama freely quoted in his memiors from a man who 
> said that God should damn America? Are you going to judge Obama, at the 
> top of the Democratic ticket, by the same standard you are now trying 
> judge the VP candidate on the Republican side?
> 
> I somehow doubt it... But I AM eagerly awaiting your response...
> 
> 
> Ben Cittadino wrote:
>> Pete;
>>
>> Speaking of Gov. Palin, Frank Rich (of the NYTimes) had a reference in
>> his
>> excellent column this past Sunday about her quote from Westbrook Pegler:
>>
>> No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s
>> convention
>> speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as
>> opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook
>> Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism,
>> racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill
>> F.D.R.
>> at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler
>> wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong man.”
>> In
>> the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of the
>> Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises
>> before
>> the snow falls.”
>>
>> I don't believe it is possible to justify any use of Pegler's words in
>> any
>> context in this day and age.  Either she (or her speech-writer) are
>> Pegler
>> disciples, or guilty of appallingly bad judgment. Westbrook Pegler was a
>> very bad guy.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Ben C. 
>>
>> P.S.- Ed- Let me get this straight; You don't listen to Limbaugh, except
>> when you do?  Is that it? Anyway, 
>> WFAN(660 AM) is the place for sports talk up this way.  Give it a listen
>> next time you're up this way to take in a Broadway Show.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tootle wrote:
>>   
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> Here is the second paragraph of that report which you failed to mention,
>>> "Was the refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired Commissioner
>>> of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within her
>>> rights as the states' chief executive to fire him for just about any
>>> reason, even without cause."
>>>
>>> Peter are you being paid by the Obama Campaign for your posts?  Are you
>>> familiar with the term 'cherry picking'?
>>>
>>> Ben C. asked, " Do you think Rush Limbaugh has actually read Sowell's
>>> stuff, or just pretends?"  I do not listen to Limbaugh except when I am
>>> driving and that is usually less than an hour, so I have no idea of the
>>> answer to your question. I guess you must listen more than me.  Why
>>> don't
>>> you call in and ask him?  Let us all know what you find out.
>>>
>>> As for talk radio, we have a couple of good sports talk shows here on
>>> Wcpi.  One is called 'Road Rage' with Walt Deptula.  He is quite
>>> knowledgeable and very critical.  His program may have helped get the
>>> Clemson football coach, Tommy Bowdin fired.
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg 
>>>  
>>>
>>> petelargo wrote:
>>>     
>>>> ....except that's not what the bi-partisan investigation committee of
>>>> 10
>>>> repubs and 4 demos found.  she clearly abused her power. now they are
>>>> looking into the sports complex that paid for their personal house with
>>>> government money. no small town washington reformer here.  just another
>>>> 'whats in it for me' politician. 
>>>>
>>>> from the time magazine article linked below: " ......the Branchflower
>>>> report still makes for good reading, if only because it convincingly
>>>> answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin
>>>> administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so." 
>>>>
>>>> http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849399,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19981887/Obama%2Band%2BAyers.jpg
>>> Obama+and+Ayers.jpg 
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>   
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