2008 Required Reading
posted by on October 14 at 8:35 AM
Christopher Hitchens on McCain/Palin:
But the difference in character and temperament has become plainer by the day, and there is no decent way of avoiding the fact. Last week’s so-called town-hall event showed Sen. John McCain to be someone suffering from an increasingly obvious and embarrassing deficit, both cognitive and physical. And the only public events that have so far featured his absurd choice of running mate have shown her to be a deceiving and unscrupulous woman utterly unversed in any of the needful political discourses but easily trained to utter preposterous lies and to appeal to the basest element of her audience….The most insulting thing that a politician can do is to compel you to ask yourself: “What does he take me for?” Precisely this question is provoked by the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin. I wrote not long ago that it was not right to condescend to her just because of her provincial roots or her piety, let alone her slight flirtatiousness, but really her conduct since then has been a national disgrace. It turns out that none of her early claims to political courage was founded in fact, and it further turns out that some of the untested rumors about her—her vindictiveness in local quarrels, her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded, indeed. Moreover, given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party’s right wing and of recycling patent falsehoods about Obama’s position on Afghanistan, she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
It therefore seems to me that the Republican Party has invited not just defeat but discredit this year, and that both its nominees for the highest offices in the land should be decisively repudiated, along with any senators, congressmen, and governors who endorse them.
Is this required reading because Christopher Hitchens said it?
Well that just about sums them up well.
Ok I am off to vote (Canada). Yes we are picking our so called leader today. YAWN!
So what? She's hot.
@1 No, you fool. It's required reading because of what he wrote.
@2: And you had your Thanksgiving already too! Canada is getting ahead of us...
Will the next thing he writes, when he modifies his statement (because he's never quite completely on track, but writes opinion as fact), also be required reading?
He's no more then a glorified blogger.
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
You know McCain's henchmen were just sitting around going, "We need a broad" and chose her. Much in the same way Bush looked around, saw Condi, and said, "Damn - she's a broad and one of THEM! Yee HAW!" Then he did another shot, pumped his fist in the air and did the white man's pimp walk in victory.
Condi isn't actually stupid though.
True. Condi is proven intellectual. Palin is a rube.
But does he think Tina Fey is biologically incapable of being funny?
I generally despise Christopher Hitchens, but he is right for once.
He's preaching to the choir. The people who need to read this will never see it. This needs to be rewritten on billboards in rural America using smaller words.
Christopher Hitchens is greatly overrated in my opinion.
Remember that time when Christopher Hitchens got himself waterboarded? Dude, that was AWESOME!
I agree with #s 7 and 13.
(And #9 - Bellevue Ave is always right. Condi just plays stupid for Dubbya's sake.)
What really surprises me is Hitchen's eloquence. Didn't think he had it in him.
Can I get an "Amen"?
Damn, I hate to agree with him.
condi isn't stupid, she just gets wet for stupid. who are we to judge her for her fetishes?
From what Mr Hitchens says, it sounds like Mrs Palin would be a good candidate to replace Elizabeth Hasselbeck on "The View."
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