Hitchens Endorses the Obama/Biden ticket

[heliarc]

http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/

[NMDemDist2]

1. argh

:argh:

he's an idiot, glad we got his vote but jeezzzzz :puke:

[heliarc]

15. sigh...

He's not an idiot...

He favored the war... but he also believes in War Crimes tribunals for Henry Kissinger and independance for the Kurdish people... He's hardly an idiot. Tucker Carlson is an idiot.

[TripleEntente]

2. Is he a conservative?

I'm unfamiliar with Hitchens. Is he a conservative?

[elleng]

8. He's a drunk occasional unreliable conservative literate

sob.

[heliarc]

11. Well...

Hitchens used to consider himself an Orwell Socialist... I wouldn't call him a conservative exactly. He is the protege of Gore Vidal, and ruffled feathers for supporting the war in Iraq.

[obamachangetheworld]

16. He calls himself a "neoconservative"

as one label, that is. But he's very liberal when it comes to social issues. However he does strongly support nation building and the Iraq war. His support for president Bush and the war put him in unfavorable eyes among a lot liberals, however in a lot of ways he's a liberal himself.

[heliarc]

22. Thank you...

Yours is the fairest description so far.

[BlueIdaho]

3. Yes he is a conservative - and English

He may be more like a British conservative rather than an American conservative - there is a difference.

[pitohui]

10. he's a naturalized american, ,he can vote

pretty sure the fucktard voted for bush but if he's voting for obama this time good!

[liberal texan]

4. more examples of conservative intellectuals jumping ship

Hitchens is the newest in a trend of Conservatives frightened of Palin
First it was Will
Brooks
Buckley Jr.
Now Hitchens.

The Republicans can't survive just on their base.

[heliarc]

12. I tire of this website's horrible memory.

Hitchens used to write for the Nation Magazine... He was an Orwell Socialist, a supporter of Kurdish independence, a fighter against religion in politics, and he is one of the major proponents of war crimes proceedings against Henry Kissinger. He hates Clinton, yes and with some good reason... he supported the War in Iraq yes, but he is hardly a complete neocon. He marches to beat of his own drummer, and I welcome him to the fold. His disgust for the Palin selection is founded in good reason... as is ours

[emulatorloo]

5. This paragraph about Palin is amazing.

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. McCain occasionally remembers to stress matters like honor and to disown innuendoes and slanders, but this only makes him look both more senile and more cynical, since it cannot (can it?) be other than his wish and design that he has engaged a deputy who does the innuendoes and slanders for him.

[heliarc]

13. There are many Hitchens paragraphs that are amazing...

A good read is his Trial of Henry Kissinger, or his Biography of George Orwell.

[OutNow]

6. Hitchens - Also an atheist

I detest that drunken sod of a war pig. I had the opportunity to hear George Galloway speak at the big anti-war march in Washington 2 years ago, when he tore Hitchens apart for his support for Bush's war.

OTOH - Hitchens is a well known atheist (read is latest book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" ) and I'm sure Palin's background scares the shit out of him. As it should.

Or maybe he has decided to crawl back to his former leftist positions. If so, he will have to crawl on his hands and knees for many miles before we forgive him for his cheer leading for Bush's Iraq war.

[liberal texan]

7. I don't think so

He is supporting Obama dispite Obama's views on the war.

[heliarc]

14. I don't think he ever left his left positions.

He still supports Kurdish separatism, Atheism, War Crimes proceedings for Henry Kissinger, Orwell's socialism. I think he is just as afraid of the Taliban's religious fervor as he is of Palin's religious fervor... He's not so far from left in my opinion. He has strange and dangerous bedfellows now, but I tend to think he's closer to the left than the right.

[underpants]

9. Marking for later read

[torbird]

17. I'll buy that man a drink!

...in any bar in Iraq. Fucker.

[Phred42]

18. Global climate change must have just hit Hell

if you catch my drift

[mackerel]

19. You know he used to be good but then he became a parody

of himself. I always thought he and tranny annie would make a good couple or the very least a good SNL skit.

(That's Ann Coulter if you haven't notice her adams apple-lol)

[Phred42]

20. I got it. and Agree

[heliarc]

21. Wow...

How misinformed can you get. There is NO comparison between Hitchens and Ann Coulter. Hitchens' books are well researched and for all intents and purposes truthful. Ann Coulter is a hateful liar. Yes he is dogmatic, and ornery... He is NOT a fascist like Ann though. I regret that people here don't look deeper into the body of Hitchens' actual work.