<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- generator="FeedCreator 1.7.2" -->
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <title><![CDATA[The Daily Beast - Christopher  Buckley]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The latest blogs, stories, and Buzz Board picks from Christopher  Buckley]]></description>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/christopher-buckley/?cid=rss:author:christopher-buckley]]></link>
        <lastBuildDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:42:55 -0400]]></lastBuildDate>
        <generator><![CDATA[FeedCreator 1.7.2]]></generator>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[One Hell of a Speech]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-28/one-hell-of-a-speech/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Obama didn't deliver a speech so much as a symphony, calling for nukes and zapping the Supremes; thanks for the performance, Mr. President.
It is hard, indeed almost impossible, not to like Mr. Obama. In recent weeks, I've tried-tried my best. But...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:09:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_6380]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Oops]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-25/the-audacity-of-oops/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley procured an early draft of President Obama's upcoming State of the Union speech.
My fellow Americans,
Tonight I can report to you that the state of the union, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being excellent, is a...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:57:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_6335]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Too Big to Succeed]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-07/too-big-to-succeed/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security, with its $42 billion budget, is a giant bureaucratic disaster. Christopher Buckley wonders who, really, is in charge.
The phrase "too big to fail" was much in coinage last year during the crash, the idea being that AIG, Fannie Mae,...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:08:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_6069]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[A Holiday Lesson from Auschwitz]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-26/a-holiday-lesson-from-auschwitz/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Last week's theft and recovery of the death camp's famous sign serves as a potent coda to the decade, says The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley, but also a roadmap to something better.
A lot has been written lately about what a dreadful decade the...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:45:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5925]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Oops, My Mistake]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-17/oops-my-mistake/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[George Bush's porn movie, and other errors I regret from 2009.
'Tis the season for the conscientious columnist (in theory, me) to come clean with his or her loyal readers (in theory, you) and cop to various factual errors over the past 12 months.
To...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:39:50 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5827]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Buckley's Smart 16]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-30/buckleys-smart-16/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[From Hillary Clinton to David Petraeus, The Daily Beast's Christopher Buckley offers his own nominations for smartest personage of the decade.
Barack Obama, for turning a convention speech into the presidency in four years.
Chesley "Sully"...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:55:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5519]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Going Rogue: The Index]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-21/going-rogue-the-index/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's columnist enjoyed Sarah Palin's memoir so much, he created his own index for it. 
Alaska &nbsp;&nbsp; mind-numbingly boring intramural politics of, 1-208 Aristotle,  63 Atlantic Monthly&nbsp;&nbsp; formerly reputable outlet asserts...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:50:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5420]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Lessons from Another War]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-12/lessons-from-another-war/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley, in London as Britain marks Armistice Day, reports on how the allies' Afghanistan conundrum looks under the long shadow of World War I.
I arrived in London a bit after noon, having gotten off the Queen Mary 2 in Southampton a few...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:04:41 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5262]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[It's Time for Us to Go]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-28/its-time-for-us-to-go/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Get out of Afghanistan now, Mr. President. And here's why.
I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of The Washington Post ever since. I think I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have seen the...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:36:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_5023]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[A Prize Too Far]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-10/a-prize-too-far/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast's award-winning columnist delivers a message from President Obama to the Nobel committee: Thanks, but no thanks. 
12 PM October 10, 2009
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
I have just notified the Nobel Peace Prize...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:14:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_4742]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Oval Office Confidential]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-05/what-the-butler-saw-1/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The award-winning Daily Beast columnist on the surprising revelations in the latest guilty pleasure kiss-and-tell. 
Where was I?   Oh yes, trying to make Joe Scarborough into the GOP 'It' Guy.  To be continued.  Meanwhile...
... in a recent column...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:55:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_4655]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Joe Scarborough Can Save the GOP]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-08/joe-scarborough-can-save-the-gop/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I've found the new face of the Republican Party. It's not a new one, entirely, and it's been hiding out on national television every weekday morning from six to nine. 
There's been a lot of talk lately among Republicans about the need to find a new...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:40:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_2748]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[My Address-and Apology-to Yale]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-24/my-address-and-apology-to-yale/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Class Day speaker and Daily Beast columnist Christopher Buckley wishes Yale graduates every success as they enter that never-ending graduate school called life-and offers up a long overdue mea culpa for dropping an F-bomb during his own...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 May 2009 20:23:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_2527]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[My Commencement Address]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-17/my-commencement-address/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ What would you say to 9,000 people whose fondest wish is to get you off the podium? The Daily Beast's resident wit waxes neurotic about an imminent speech to the Class of 2009. 
I have to give a speech at a commencement exercise, and I'm a little...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 17 May 2009 06:53:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_2435]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Would My Father Have Voted for Obama?]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-12/would-my-father-have-voted-for-obama/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ You get asked a lot of odd questions when you go on a book tour. And give even stranger answers. Did I ever tell you about the time I collaborated with Proust? Or was an adviser to William Howard Taft? 
I'm on a book tour.
I won't call it "book tour...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 May 2009 05:46:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.post_2372]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Book]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/1275///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I just finished Paul Johnson's marvelous new-and blissfully short-biography of Winston Churchill, titled (oddly enough) Churchill. But warning: It will make you feel woefully inadequate.  The man's accomplishments, as well as his mistakes, were nothing...]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:22:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.beastboard_1275]]></guid>
        </item>
        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/1250///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[I much enjoyed Sherlock Holmes, with Robert Downey and Jude Law, and I tend to be a purist when it comes to the great detective.  This is a fun, muscular and quite witty package, and nicely tees up a sequel, which I'm already eager to see.]]></description>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/rss/author/christopher-buckley/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:20:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
            <guid isPermaLink="false"><![CDATA[dailybeast.rss.beastboard_1250]]></guid>
        </item>
    </channel>
</rss>
