On-line at Tina Brown’s new website, the Daily Beast, rather than National Review because, he says, “I don’t have the kidney at the moment for 12,000 emails saying how good it is he’s [i.e., WFB Jr.] no longer alive to see his Judas of a son endorse for the presidency a covert Muslim who pals around with the Weather Underground.”

Buckley is optimistic about Obama’s judgment and intellect — though as the passage below indicates, he understands that intellect isn’t everything:

As for Senator Obama: He has exhibited throughout a “first-class temperament,” pace Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s famous comment about FDR. As for his intellect, well, he’s a Harvard man, though that’s sure as heck no guarantee of anything, these days. Vietnam was brought to you by Harvard and (one or two) Yale men. As for our current adventure in Mesopotamia, consider this lustrous alumni roster. Bush 43: Yale. Rumsfeld: Princeton. Paul Bremer: Yale and Harvard. What do they all have in common? Andover! The best and the brightest.

Read on.