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In the March 24th issue of The American Conservative, the magazine founded by Patrick J. Buchanan, Andrew Bacevich makes "[t]he conservative case for Barack Obama" ─ The Right Choice? Prof. Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran, was a prominent antiwar conservative before he lost his own son to Mr. Bush's War.On March 7th, Justin Raimondo, editor of Antiwar.com, admitted to being "a conservative-paleo-libertarian with a man-crush on Obama" ─ Confessions of an Obama Cultist. In addition to being a chronicler of the Old Right and the man who gave Pat Buchanan's nomination speech in 1996, Mr. Raimondo is openly gay.
On March 3rd, Pat Buchanan himself gave Obama credit for having "denounced 'open trucking,' the feature of NAFTA whereby Mexican trucks are free to roam the United States and compete with the Teamsters of Jim Hoffa’s union, which just endorsed him" ─ The Second Battle of NAFTA.
On February 21st, Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan's first term, known as "The Father of Reagonomics," concludes that "President Obama and his Secretary of the Treasury, Ralph Gomery, are our last best hopes" ─ Obama and Global Trade.
On February 15th, Ryan W. McMaken, writing for the "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market" LewRockwell.com, made the case that "war is the biggest of big government programs, and the candidate that opposes it is almost inevitably the de facto small-government candidate" ─ War is the health of the State.
Here come the Obamacons! Will the Left make room for them?
