Isn’t the real point that in another era, Obama would have been the target of Buckley’s
opprobrium, not support. One recalls that Buckley pere portrayed an almost exact copy of Obama; a white liberal Senator determined
to torpedo all covert operations as a foil to Blackford Oakes. An American academic and community organizer of Kenyan extraction; with a paucity of actual experience; and a line of questionable associations; leading back to “The Troubles” of the 60s. Comedy gold, in another era. Then again one recalls his soft pedalling of the conspiracy agitprop
“Bob Roberts” in the early 90s; his immature
spat with Tom Clancy, on a novel which turned out to be disturbingly prophetic. Why would one take a chance on someone who has been against everything conservatives have been for; in the last two generations, hope and change.