ex-National Review publisher endorses Obama…no mention of Barr
If you weren’t already aware, I’m a twin. Fraternal. And that’s his artwork to the left.
As you can tell, the twin’s quite the artist…and, yes, quite the lib. But – admit it – for an Obama shirt, it’s pretty badass. I mean, an AC/DC reference? Genius!
Moreover, it lacks the nauseating messianic dimension that everything else Obama-branded has.
Anyways, for the last few years, I’ve been pushing my libertarianism on him pretty solid – and, for the last year, my active disinterest/dismissal of Obama – so it was only inevitable he’d try to shut me up with something convincing.
Last week, he shot me an email with a link to Wick Allison’s – ex-publisher for National Review and current editor in chief for D Magazine – A Conservative for Obama.
I read it. Yeah, not convinced.
The editorial actually starts off quite strong, describing the abstract difference between conservatism and liberalism and then going on to show how Bush’s tax cuts (without subsequent spending cuts) and foreign policy are unsound political moves. Totally agree.
But then, after associating these unsound policies with McCain (a move I more or less agree with), Allison immediately shifts to an empty endorsement of Obama, citing his intellect, strong rhetoric/speaking skills, and pragmatism as reasons for doing so. Nothing else. Obama was, apparently, that easy of a decision for Wick. After all, it’s him or McCain!
To which I have to respond with a big ole’ bullshit! These are not the only options and, Wick, you know it.
What about Bob Barr? I lament: WHAT ABOUT BOB BARR!?!
This Wick Allison guy is ex-National Review. How can he not mention, not even in passing, Bob Barr?
Bob Barr’s foreign policy? Arguably isolationist. Spending? He’ll veto everything and anything! And questions regarding how Barr thinks it is “America’s job is to ‘defeat evil,’ a theological expansion of the nation’s mission”? I don’t think so. Bob cites my girl Ayn Rand all the time!
This is your man, Wick. Unless you address the issue, I am left to assume that your editorial is just a pathetic attempt to get some traffic to an online news source that no one’s every heard of.
