To add to many sharp comments above….

C. Buckley’s only qualifications for approving Obama as POTUS are that he gives a good speech, seems to have an even temperament, and writes (apparently) a fair memoir? Pathetically preppy and shamelessly shallow, that C. Buckley. Never read him. Never will. Sons never measure up to great fathers anyway, but C. Buckley, is almost too painful to contemplate. Mired in mid-life crisis, with a failed marriage, hopelessly mediocre writing career, desperately faking independent thinking, lashing out subconciously at his father’s unattainable greatness, pitifully trying compensate by ingratiating himself to the East Coast Leftist snob cabal, – it has all the makings of a sme kind of new genre – tragi-comic conservative satire.

As to His Oneness, he seems to have deviously calculated his ambitious political career by trying to emulate the other great myth of liberal elites and the biggest fraud foisted by the Media and the hapless American public – JFK. Hey, seemed to work for Jack, why not? But while Obama refuses to release his thesis’ and other key writings, JFK’s were considered by family friend Arthur Krock of the NYT to be, “very sloppy, mostly magazine and newspaper clippings stuck together.” Eventually, with the help of ghost writers, favors owed, and family purchases of 40,000 copies, it became Why England Slept and managed to get him the covetted cum laude designation from ‘Ha’va’d.’ Kennedy jumbo dollars, Theodore Sorensen, and an army of writers and historians also managed to take Jack’s horrid “incoherent melange from secondary sources” and miraculously transmutate it into Profiles Of Courage. Other parallels arise – the emphasis on youth, glamour, pseudo-intellectualism, but the most poignant is from Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People”: “In some ways the most dangerous kind of politician is a man who is good at PR and nothing else – and in some respects JFK fitted that description exactly.” And so does Obama. And the facile believers in both are equally phony.