Christopher Buckley to Vote Obama

As they say, "Be carefull what you wish for, you might just get it". As a died in the wool conservative, I have resigned myself to the growing fact that Obama will be the next President. I was from Illinois and was a small (trying to be large) business owner. I met with Obama and two other State Senators years ago about a business tax they proposed. I was told by Obama that although he understood my concerns, "There is so much good we can do in Chicago with the revenue". I moved to a more friendly state to run my business as did hundreds of others. Northern Illinois saw many just move a few miles to WI. We won't be able to just cross another border to run our business, or will we? He is a empty suit, IMO, that has a socialist leaning and will be harmfull to American business, but we will see. I hope I am wrong, but I have seen the man in action, and have met with him, and he scares me in this tough time we are facing.

Ms. Williams,

Why is it assumed that "dear, old dad" would not also support Obama?

This is the whole point behind Obama's meteoric rise. We have lived in a nation and world that insists on pigeon holing us into demographics. In virtually everything we are expected to take sides, and we assume that by doing this everybody's behavior is predictable within the constraints of the chosen side. This very idea is the problem; individual thinking has taken a back seat to the will of the group. For example, I oppose abortion but support Roe v. Wade. I support the right to bear arms but don't own a gun. I am Christian, but will fight til my dying breath to keep anyone who gets paid by my tax dollars from telling me or my kids what to believe. I believe in equal pay for equal work, but have problems with a woman carpenter who gets what I make but cannot carry a 4X8 sheet of plywood by herself(I would say the same for a guy). Am I a conservative? Am I liberal? Where exactly do I fit in the grand equation? When are we allowed to think for ourselves, find common ground on the things that affect us all?

Looking around at a world on the brink of economic collapse threatening ALL markets, not just the free ones, William F. Buckley might just have sided with his son.

Good for you Mr. Buckley. I applaud your wisdom and common sense and most of all I respect your choice to vote for the right person rather than the party!

Christopher Buckley is wrong!
He is basing any part of his decision on the self serving books Barack Obama wrote about himself??!!!!

Did Mr Buckley have a problem, at all, when Barack Obama wrote about the winds of change and he would stand with the Muslims?????

Dave, and anyone else feeling defeated, it isn't over!
I believe the American voters will choose McCain/Palin!
The lefty lib media wants you to believe it's over!
It's not.
McCain hasn't been changed by this election. He has stepped up to the unfair attacks made by the other side who won't acknowledge that he is his own man and will be the best Pres. for the USA!

"Cut off my allowance" Does anyone else have a problem with a 50 year old man even saying the word allowance in reference to himself??????

He does have an allowance, it's called a
"trust fund."
Sad excuse for a grown man!

We can only hope that many many more independents, republicans, libertarians, AND democrats -- get out and vote for a man that has the potential to be a great leader and guide this country toward restoring its integrity, wealth, and compassion.

I own two furniture stores, and so I've listened very closely to what both candidates are promising. If you want to know how a person will act, just look at how they've voted in the past. Used to be that we would tell our kids, "watch out who you hang out with...bad company corrupts good morals." We sat and watched the "60 Minutes" commentators crucify Richard Nixon for things that paled in comparison to the things Barack Obama's friends have done and said. Surely even Mr. Buckley can't deny that the MSM has swept under the carpet many things about Mr. Obama that they would never have let pass about McCain. They've spent more time focusing on Palin's clothing than they have on the fact that one of the people William Ayers dedicated his book to was Sirhan Sirhan, the man who killed Robt. Kennedy. Why isn't that news? Used to be news. What about all the voter fraud? What about Obama's campaign having Chase Paymentech turn off the security part of their web site so that you can't match up a credit card with an address? Why isn't that news? I mean...it IS news on some news channel...just not the MSMs. We're a country of hypocrites. We sit and extole the sorely missing virtues of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, etc...and rake them through the mud...but when it comes to a man we want to make commander in chief our the greatest country in the world, we say it's okay that he's surrounded himself with not one...not two... not three...not four...nor even five....but COUNTLESS men/women (Dorne) who've terrorized our country...told us our chickens have come home to roost. Stomped on our flag...bombed our Pentagon (although we put Timothy McVey to death for killing people in a govt bldg). I believe Buckley's "child" is just that. A whiny child....who has no common sense. Just reading what he said above makes him sound like a nut. He makes this case...and then closes with "God save America"...as if he knows it's going to be ruined if Obama gets in...but, oh well. How childish. He sounds like a man who's TRYING to be "deep" like his dad was...and yet he comes off sounding like an imbecile. We just got through going through 9/11 seven yrs ago, and already, we're willing to put a man with muslim ties/terrorist friends/who won't tell us anything about himself/who our enemies want IN the White House/who won't put his hand over his heart when singing the national anthem/who had to be COAXED into wearing a flag pin/whose wife said she has just begun to be proud of her country/whose wife says America is a MEAN COUNTRY/who wants to throw us into socialism and redistribute the wealth/who keeps changing what he says he's going to do to suit whoever is listening at the time. Only seven years has passed, and half of America is asleep. They're WORSHIPPING a man who has been in the senate for less than 15 mos. I ask you....in a sane world...how can a man like Biden say one month "Obama is not ready...there's no learning on the job"...and then a month later change and say "Obama's ready!" And how, in a sane world, can Hillary say "All Obama has is a speech he made at the DNC...."...and no experience...and now she and her husband are out saying how he's the best man for the job!" Were they lying then? Or are they lying now? Have people gone insane? I never thought I'd see anything like this in my life in America. And all my customers come in and just shake their heads when we talk about it. They're just floored at all the "blindness" going on, and how people are just following the media like blind sheep....to the slaughter. Very sad.