Bill Buckley's Son Endorses Obama!

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 5:39 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 17:39

This is a really quick diary as I'm trying to finish up some work and I wanted to jump on this:

No, hell has not frozen over, but a Buckley is backing a Democrat for president.

Christopher Buckley, the son of the late conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Friday he's decided to back Barack Obama's White House bid, the first time in his life he will vote Democrat.

"It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup [sic] are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance," Buckley, a columnist for the conservative National Review, wrote on the Web site The Daily Beast Friday.

Go see this if you don't believe me!

He has some nice things to say:

But Buckley made clear he's not just voting against McCain, praising Obama for his "first-class temperament and first-class intellect.

"Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rhetoric—the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for," Buckley wrote.

I can't quote more or I'd be quoting the whole thing. He absolutely FLAYS John Sidney McCain.

Can. Not. Believe. This!

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