Posted on 11/14/2008 10:37:20 PM PST by MissCalico
FIGHTING WORDS
Barack to Reality
Obama's victory didn't magically eliminate America's problems and enemies.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at 11:30 AM ET
Yes, yes, yes. I, too, took pleasure in standing in line and in exchanging pleasantries and greetings with the amazingly courteous staff at my polling station and the many citizens of my delightfully diverse Washington neighborhood. I, too, am still wearing my lapel sticker, with the jaunty words "I Voted." And I found it pretty easy to cast a vote that told the Republican Party, for which I recommended a vote last time, not to try any of this shit again. No more McCarthy tactics; no more stumblebum quitting of the campaign trail and attempting to pull out of the first presidential debate in order to wind up voting to save Lehman Bros.; no more driveling Christian fundamentalism; no more insinuation that only those silly enough to endorse them are "real Americans." No more sneers at San Francisco as if it weren't a real American city. McCain and his preposterous running mate will just have to believe in an afterlife in which they can live down the shame of what they attempted this year.
But I might possibly have voted for them all the same, clothes pin clamped over my nose in the voting booth, if only because of the crucial struggle for a free Iraq and an autonomous Kurdistan. And, in such a case, I would have been very annoyed at the suggestion that my vote was a racist one. "Historic," yelled the very headline across the top of my morning newspaper. (Just the news, please, if you would be so kind.) Would the letters have been so big for the first female vice president? ...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
You know, this is the first instance of the word “McCarthyism” being used in print that I’ve seen during the course of this election? It’s just weird. Out of all the “Mc” derogatory nicknames lobbed at McCain, that one was never used, even with him and Sarah Palin out on the campaign trail, calling Obama a socialist.
I heard the McCarthyism slur slung around a bit during the campaign from the MSM but I can’t recall if it was in print. It usually was in response to Sarah on the campaign trail bringing up the Ayers connection and using pro-American terminology.
Don't drink yourself silly, Hitchens, I would love to see you still around to continue your comic strip, if even from a public house, whilst Mrs. Palin is in the White House.
Unfortunately, as is the case for most radical atheists, Hitchen’s opinions are clouded by his hatred of believers.
It is very “fashionable” these days to hate Christians. These pseudo-intellectual types just can’t get over themselves. Sarah Palin became a lightening rod for them.
Hitchens, generally, is a clear thinker. He just has this hang up....a rather sad commentary. Hatred has no bounds.
Chris you suck, enjoy your stupidity vote. It will probably be the last one you get.
"an emollient influence..." Dang, that's good.
What the heck is emollient?
An emollient is anything that softens the skin. Hitchens is referring to how the Obamabots think that the Messiah’s smooth ways will magically soothe our enemies like moisturizing lotion on dry skin.
Obama is a socialist.
Dear Jesus! What a misinformed AH.
I bet that if Hitch was a star in an Islamic terrorist beheading video, his last words would be “damn evangelical Christians”.
Emollient is like a soothing lotion.
It’s definitely his blind spot.
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