Quote Of The Day: Christopher Hitchens Endorses Obama

A lot of people in the media and elsewhere who had a soft spot in their hearts for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain are now finding that the spot has vanished after watching his campaign. Now you can add Christopher Hitchens to the mix.

In February, Hitchens did a comprehensive and complimentary profile/interview for Vanity Fair on McCain called “Prisoner of Conscience. Now, 8 months later, in a Slate piece, he lambastes McCain and McCain’s debate performances, calls McCain’s Vice Presidential pick Gov. Sarah Palin a “disgrace” and after almost melting his keyboard ends with this:

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.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that “issue” I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience. With McCain, the “experience” is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke. One only wishes that the election could be over now and a proper and dignified verdict rendered, so as to spare democracy and civility the degradation to which they look like being subjected in the remaining days of a low, dishonest campaign.

Hey, Chris: next time tell us how you REALLY feel…