At the risk of bad taste (never a problem for me), I wonder if William F. Buckley was reading Rich Lowry's take on the Clinton-Obama debate this week when Buckley dropped dead at his desk. Obamania in National Review? What a time, what a time. If this is (fair & balanced) astonishment, so be it.
[x National Review]
What an Amazing Turnabout
By Rich Lowry
Who would have guessed three months ago that Hillary would be the desperate out-of-sorts underdog nipping at the ankles of the cool, in-control frontrunner, Barack Obama, in what is probably the final Democratic debate? I certainly wouldn't have. Obama had an answer to everything and at times was amused at Hillary's haymakers. Is it possible to throw a picayune haymaker? If so, Hillary threw them tonight — over fliers, getting asked questions first, Obama's neglect of subcommittee oversight hearings, the difference between "denouncing and rejecting," etc. This is what a politician who simply can't find anything that works is reduced to. What Obama did all night was brush her off, without (for the most part) seeming arrogant. He was in command, his stature enhanced by his standing in the race and by Hillary's ineffectual attacks. It was entirely possible to imagine him on a stage with John McCain, and more than holding his own.
[Rich Lowry, a 1990 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he edited The Virginia Advocate (campus newspaper), is known as one of the youngest and most influential conservative commentators and analysts in the country. He joined William F. Buckley's brainchild, National Review, in 1992 and has been the magazine's editor since 1997.]
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