"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
Well, if we're going to play let's-quote-Buckley, I'd point out that he departed from orthodox "conservatism" many times. Example.
Buckey was a thinker, not a demagogue or an ideologue.
Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
Always liked him. As CR said, very intelligent and eloquent.
"But then, of course, your stuporious imbecility is magnified by an egregious and shocking lack of proper vernacularity running, runnning I say, hand in hand, testament like, with your love and devotion to the cause of socialist ambitions. I would ask you to respond but you will be wrong again, so I will not."
Unto each good man a good dog
Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
Rest in peace. As previously noted, an intelligent, eloquent, and hard working man for the conservative effort.
However, I must say, I don't personally like him much. Obvious reasons aside, this particular quote from the article irks me.
"I asked myself the other day, 'Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?' I couldn't think of anyone."
For me, that just comes off as incredibly arrogant and self serving. There's other things I'd go on, but I'll leave it at that, as this is not really the time to bring a littany up on it.
Last edited by seireikhaan; 02-28-2008 at 01:46.
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Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
Just an amazing mind all around. Thanks to Buckley I had the NRO site bookmarked and I always made sure to have my dictionary handy while reading
This was no Rush Limbaugh, save the trolling for someone else's funereal.
R.I.P.
Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
edited: nevermind.
Last edited by seireikhaan; 02-28-2008 at 05:37.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Re: RIP - William F. Buckley Jr.
I am surprised to hear he was considered a thinker by some. Wasn't he more of an activist? Maybe among friends like Howard Hunter, Billy Graham and J. Edgar Hoover, writing spy novels amounts to 'thinking'.
He struck me as kindred soul of Gore Vidal, who is a gifted writer and an activist, half a Communist and not exactly a thinker either.
Were Buckley's novels any good? Vidal's are terrific, but his politics stinks. I know some of Buckley's columns were very good and his politics didn't stink. I believe he was against the ban on soft drugs and against the war in Iraq, to name some hot topics.
It seems he and Vidal were good friends, which I find easy to imagine because they had the same acerbic humour and elite background and they were both widely read.
Buckley ran for Mayor, like Vidal ran for the Senate - in vain. When asked wha he would do the day after being elected, Buckley said: "Demand a recount." Gore Vidal could have said that.
A great wit has died.
Last edited by Adrian II; 02-28-2008 at 13:18.
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