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  A Conservative for Obama
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Last EditedRP  Sep 17, 2008 03:06pm
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News DateWednesday, September 17, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionMy party has slipped its moorings. It’s time for a true pragmatist to lead the country.

THE MORE I LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT “the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate,” the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord with me like no political figure since Ronald Reagan. To explain why, I need to explain why I am a conservative and what it means to me.

In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I later became its publisher.
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