On September 3, 2009, a debate sponsored by Intelligence Squared, at the Methodist Central Hall Westminster, in London, considered the question: “Resolved: Churchill was more a liability than an asset to the free world.”
Speakers for the motion: Pat Buchanan, Nigel Knight, political scientist and economist at Churchill College, Cambridge, and Norman Stone, historian and professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara.
Speakers against the motion: Antony Beevor, historian and author of the best-selling book Stalingrad; professor Richard Overy, historian, author of many books and articles on the Second World War and the Nazi regime; and Andrew Roberts, historian, who has spent 20 years writing, researching, and broadcasting about Churchill and the Second World War.
US Politician Puts Blame on Churchill for Second World War
The row over responsibility for the Second World War broke out again last night at the Evening Standard and Intelligence Squared’s joint debate on Winston Churchill.
American Republican politician Pat Buchanan argued that the wartime prime minister was a leading proponent of the conflict and that had he not entered the war, the impact of the Holocaust would have been lessened.
About 1,800 people attended the debate at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster on the 70th anniversary of Britain’s declaration of war on Germany.
“Suddenly Afghanistan is in the news, and commentators on the right as well as the left are taking note. Tony Blankley, former chief aide to Newt Gingrich and editor of the Washington Times, joins Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuval and Pat Buchanan in comparing Obama to LBJ – a chief executive with an ambitious liberal domestic program dragged down by his commitment to a losing war….”
Obama is keeping his eye on the prize – the Nobel Prize, that is, as a reward for brokering a Middle East “peace” deal. Unfortunately, he’s doing it on the backs of the Palestinian people – and the rest of us, as well.
Morning routine: On a normal morning I get up before 7 a.m. and get my six papers at the end of the driveway. The Mrs. has the coffee on, and we read the papers with MSNBC on the kitchen television. Then I head downstairs to my basement office, where I write.
How he wrote speeches: Nixon would tell me what he wanted to say. I’d take notes and write so many drafts that the speech ended up more him than me. With Vice President Spiro Agnew, I’d write it and he’d read it. Reagan would send you most of his material. He was a speechwriter.
Thomas Paine’s familiar exhortation forms the centerpiece of a small but potent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery honoring his tumultuous life. Paintings, engravings and documents trace the rise and fall of this itinerant revolutionary, the most radical of the early American patriots who deserves to be better known.
“He has been compared to Michael Moore and Pat Buchanan,” says curator Margaret Christman. “He was a polarizing figure during his lifetime.”
At the request of the White House, Georgetown University covered up all the symbols in Gaston Hall, before the Great Man spoke, including IHS, the millennia-old monogram for the name of Jesus Christ.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, had adopted the monogram in his seal and it became an emblem of the Jesuit order.
When it comes to rendering unto Caesar, Georgetown is not going to be outshone by Notre Dame, which stole a march by offering the nation’s avatar of abortion a doctorate of laws degree, honoris causa.
A discussion with Queen Noor of Jordan, Pat Buchanan and Richard Haas on MSNBC – See 2 videos and column below:
Israeli War in Gaza – Part 1
Israeli War in Gaza – Part 2
A Real Discussion on TV Regarding U.S. Policy Towards Israel
by Glenn Greenwald – Salon
Perhaps it takes a highly-telegenic, American-born Jordanian monarch for American television networks to air a real debate on the one-sided U.S. support for Israel.
This is the MSNBC clip that has AIPAC and Michael Savage on another rampage against Pat Buchanan. View it, then listen to Savage as he spins Buchanan’s comments.
A similar sentiment is appropriate to any consideration of Pat Buchanan’s career on this November 2, his seventieth birthday.
Buchanan has been right on all the major issues facing America since the end of the Cold War. As the Bush era comes to an end and the Obama era seems about to begin, it can now be seen that the Conservative Establishment’s failure to heed Buchanan has brought us to disaster.
Today, November 2, is Pat Buchanan’s birthday, and I felt it necessary to write a brief essay to extol the contributions he has made to American conservatism, for very few people have contributed to conservative philosophy to such a degree as has he.
Buchanan has always defended tradition, Western culture, and true freedom, but most of his contributions to political discourse have been made in the latter part of his life.
As a senior adviser for President Ronald Reagan, Buchanan was involved with the combating of the communist ideology at the twilight of the Soviet Union’s nightmarish existence.
“Bob Conley is not publicly endorsing Obama. That’s his personal business, he said, adding that his dream ticket would be led by Pat Buchanan, with Ron Paul as vice president…”
Brigade, I have written before about one of our own — conservative Democrat Bob Conley from South Carolina. He’s running for the U.S. Senate seat held by neocon Lindsey Graham.
Bob is closing the gap with Graham. A private poll shows Bob at 40% — an increase of 8 points since I last wrote about him. Graham remains unchanged at just over 50%. Bob can win this race.
Did they hypnotize her, or was that unnecessary?
by Justin Raimondo – AntiWar.com
I have to laugh at the brouhaha Sarah Palin’s ascension to national prominence has stirred, especially the consternation in the Obama camp and the media (or do I repeat myself?). One can only imagine the spittle-flecked computer monitors of the anti-Palinistas – especially Andrew Sullivan, whose hatred of the caribou-shooting gal from up north has even surpassed his once-infamous hatred of the peace movement, which he habitually smeared as a “fifth column” secretly working on behalf of Osama bin Laden. I get to laugh, because, being a right-wing antiwar type, I don’t have a dog in this fight.
It’s a good thing Pat Buchanan’s not dead. He’d be rolling over in his grave.
At the Republican convention, Buchanan was taken in by the mass hysteria surrounding Sarah Palin. But even as he cheered, Pat inserted a caveat. He feared that Palin would be brainwashed by the nutty neoconservatives whom Buchanan has dedicated his recent life to debunking.
Sure enough. On Thursday we heard Palin telling Charlie Gibson that “perhaps” it might be a good idea to go to war with Russia over Georgia and the Ukraine.
Budget cuts, book banning, and support for an Alaskan secessionist movement are among the most popular Internet rumors swirling around her head.
And while that does not include her reported association with Pat Buchanan and her alleged push to put creationism in the schools, it is clear Sarah Palin has received a political baptism by fire.
Though she catapulted onto the national stage just under two weeks ago, the Alaskan governor has come under siege, especially by bloggers and cable media outlets, with fiction quickly replacing fact.
Note from Linda: So let me get this straight. MSNBC fires Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann from their jobs as news anchors covering the 2008 presidential race because they are biased toward Obama. Then they give Rachel Maddow, the most left wing broadcaster on Air America Radio, her own show on MSNBC. And who is the star guest for her first show? Who else but Pat Buchanan. The only reason anyone tunes in to MSNBC is in hopes of catching a glimpse of Buchanan. Maddow gets a show? All I can say is we want Pat! As an aside, I don’t know if PJB even wants his own show. I do know the Neocons will come out in full force with a smear campaign against Pat [just as they did during his presidential runs] to prevent him from ever having another show on a major network.
The Obama camp has raised the eyebrows of the media and scorn of the GOP by supporting the comments uttered by Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., in which he alleges Sarah Palin is a “Nazi sympathizer.”
“John McCain’s decision to select a vice presidential running mate that endorsed Pat Buchanan for president in 2000 is a direct affront to all Jewish Americans,” Mr. Wexler said.
“It is frightening that John McCain would select someone one heartbeat away from the presidency who supported a man who embodies vitriolic anti-Israel sentiments.”
Conservative Stronghold
Morning routine: On a normal morning I get up before 7 a.m. and get my six papers at the end of the driveway. The Mrs. has the coffee on, and we read the papers with MSNBC on the kitchen television. Then I head downstairs to my basement office, where I write.
How he wrote speeches: Nixon would tell me what he wanted to say. I’d take notes and write so many drafts that the speech ended up more him than me. With Vice President Spiro Agnew, I’d write it and he’d read it. Reagan would send you most of his material. He was a speechwriter.