[lbo-talk] Chris Buckley endorses Obama

[Mark Bennett]

> All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even
> tragic, for America ought, really, to be governed by men like John
> McCain—who have spent their entire lives in its service, even willing to
> give the last full measure of their devotion to it.

At what point does a life "spent in [the] service" of one's country become
"sucking on the public teat"?