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Re: Antle and Buckley
"[A]s indefensible as I think a conservative endorsement of Barack Obama is, let's not forget that the alternative is John McCain."
That's probably the best I've heard it put. Hunter, it's not quite the fault of National Review that Christopher feels less inclined to support the party on this one. I wonder if father Bill felt a similar disinclination toward Republicanism in the 1950s, though.
I just wish there was more to Christopher's argument that this is what the historical moment seems to be calling for. As it happens, Obama's campaign has been centered on the historical moment and making us feel it. He's been bludgeoning all of us with that very notion. We are, after all, the ones we've been waiting for. I'm just surprised that it's swept so many.
J. Peter Freire is contributing editor of The American Spectator. Freire first came to the Spectator as an intern and editorial assistant under a journalism fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Since then, he has written for the New York Times, Reason, and Human Events. Prior to returning to The American Spectator, he was editor of Brainwash, an online journal of opinion from America's Future Foundation, worked for the Evans-Novak Political Report, and researched and wrote for the New York Times. Freire studied English Renaissance literature and political science at Cornell University, where he served as senior editor and columnist at the Cornell Review. He is also a 2008 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow and the CPAC 2009 Journalist of the Year.
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