"A low, dishonest campaign" ... Christopher Hitchens says McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president, Palin is simply a disgrace, and something about another scotch, neat.
A candidate may well change his or her position on, say, universal health care or Bosnia. But he or she cannot change the fact that he or she is a pathological liar, or a dimwit, or a proud ignoramus.
[T]here is no decent way of avoiding the fact. Last week's so-called town-hall event showed 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.
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.
[T]here is no decent way of avoiding the fact. Last week's so-called town-hall event showed 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.
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.
And then it gets
Yes, when not even a perpetual state of inebriation is enough to make you support McFail, you know it's serious. ☺
4 comments:
All well and good, but -- why is Hitchens weighing in now? I've had those opinions for months and he's the pundit, not me. Where has he been? Did he regard McCain and Palin differently until this past week, when the truth abruptly stared him in the face? Or is he trimming his sails to fit the prevailing political winds?
Christopher Hitchens is a douchenozzle of the largest known girth.
Jeez I still love to hear the grand old sot though, putting finely-crafted words together to eviscerate his target. A favorite line:
"...the Obama campaign's choice of the word erratic to describe McCain is also an insinuation. But really, it's only a euphemism. Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear had to feel sorry for the old lion on his last outing and wish that he could be taken somewhere soothing and restful before the night was out."
Don't you people have anything better to do? If you want to know the truth Democrats calling Sarah Palin unscrupulous is like the pot calling the kettle black! Does anyone remember Bill Clinton - White Water? Travel Office? Vincent Foster? Need I say more?
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