"Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers."
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I should clarify, Wick Allison no longer is Publisher for the National Review, but is the co-founder of D-Magazine. My apologies.
Gotta get us that information out to folks correctly! Else they'll be calling us "Fox News," heh heh.
I read both of his books back before his presidential campaign. I quickly found him to be an anomaly and thought that he was too smart and practical to be president of the US. We'll see if I was right come November.
Obama may be "too smart" compared to McCain and Palin maybe, but just about as smart as the Founding Fathers would have preferred our executive to be.
"Could I just mention to you, Jay, that in a moment of seriousness I spent five and a half years in a prison cell. I didn't have a house, I didn't have a kitchen table, I didn't have a table, I didn't have a chair." - McCain, playing the pity card
"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first," Palin said. "So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first." - Sarah Palin (God knows what she's trying to say)
"I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics." - Barak Obama
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