The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the October 2008 issue

(Page 2 of 4)

In the goody-goody pages of NYRB, the Bush administration receives an unanticipated laudation:

Seven years after al-Qaeda’s attacks on America, as the Bush administration slips into history, it is clear that what began on September 11, 2001, as a battle for America’s security became, and continues to be, a battle for the country’s soul.…

In Charlottesville, Virginia, Philip Zelikow, the director of the 9/11 Commission, who returned to teaching history at the University of Virginia, tried to take stock. In time, he predicted, the Bush administration’s descent into torture would be seen as akin to Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.”

(August 14, 2008)

CNBC Interview with Warren Buffet

In a television interview with Becky Quick, the celebrated Warren Buffett demonstrates the utter invincibility of modern-day liberal hypocrisy:

Mr. BUFFETT: ... Now, what I do with politicians is I ask them what they believe in and will work for that a majority of their constituents oppose. Now, if they give me an answer to that, I know they really believe that. I mean, I don’t get long answers to that question. But what they...

QUICK: I bet you don’t.

Mr. BUFFETT: Yeah, no. But that’s the real test of what they believe in. Anybody’s for anything that gets them elected, so if they—if they say, “I’m for lowering your taxes,” or “I’m for bringing all kinds of things to my district,” or “earmarking things,” you know, of course they’re going to say that. And they’ll say that whether they believe in it or not because it keeps their jobs. Now, the question is what do they believe in that might endanger their job if in—if done?

QUICK: What did Barack Obama say when you asked him that question? You’re supporting him.

Mr. BUFFETT: Yeah. I’m not going to ask him that question.

QUICK: You haven’t asked him that question.

Mr. BUFFETT: No, I didn’t—I didn’t—I didn’t put that one to him.

QUICK: Why not?

Mr. BUFFETT: I didn’t feel like putting him on the spot that way.

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