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 Hitchens Calls Palin a ‘National Disgrace’Posted on Oct 13, 2008Christopher Hitchens has reached an endorsement by process of elimination. John McCain, he writes, isn’t up to the job, while “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.”
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By Larry, January 28, 2011 at 5:48 pm Link to this comment
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I have lost ALL respect for McCain for hoisting this shameless Palin women on us. Palin is a coward, and a very uneducated one who is mean and snarky and is just a basic grifter. Plain should be ashamed of herself but she can’t be. I seriously think that there is something wrong with this women and her loser family.
Report thisBy NeedSomethingReal, October 16, 2008 at 4:37 pm Link to this comment
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What happened to americans that we care more about who’s having an affair or who you talked to 40 years ago?
I drove by the world trade center many times and I went through Oklahoma city about a week before the bombing. Using today’s bizarre standard that makes me a terrorist by association? Whatever.
If Palin had to be voted on for VP spot (instead of sliding in on the coat tails of a presidential election) would anyone POSSIBLY vote yes? I think not.
Hitchens is polarizing yes - I happen to agree with his politics and opinions. I think the people commenting here need to look at his comments the same way you look at wikipedia - its a good starting place - do your homework.
Lastly, the sad, sad truth is from all places outside the US, Joe the Plumber (dolt) is now the poster child for the average American. What a shame.
Report thisBy moe, October 14, 2008 at 12:43 pm Link to this comment
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well said dude!!!
Report thisBy troublesum, October 14, 2008 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment
Sarah Palin is a national disgrace and Cindy Sheehan is a sob sister, but Bush and his unprovoked attack on Iraq are just swell.
Report thisBy felicity, October 14, 2008 at 11:08 am Link to this comment
Hitchens survives on the slings and arrows hurled at him by his critics, and they are legion (which makes him legion.)
McCain survives by way of his self-imposed maverick label, a cover for what he really is, a person who revels in flipping people off. His choice of Palin was little more than giving ‘us’ - the media, the Republican establishment, elites, just plain us - the royal finger.
Report thisBy Leefeller, October 14, 2008 at 9:44 am Link to this comment
Thinking out loud, good one Fenwick!
Finding the substance of Hitchen’s article very well stated and I always enjoy his writing, even to disagree. Seems some posters do not like the messenger for different reasons or the same does not matter, but what of the message? Oh yes, the message is supposed to not matter, we are led to believe as they try.
On occasion I have attacked the messenger, now it could be said I am attacking the critics of the messenger? NO, they are not critics, they are perverters of issues, supporters of smoke and mirrors for substance is on holiday. Waving the blood soaked flag, in our faces again, is this supposed to be a tactic to confuse?
Come on folks, keep your hate and division for the McCain rallies were it belongs. .
Report thisBy Alan, October 14, 2008 at 8:59 am Link to this comment
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How could it possibly have been the case
Report thisthat Arnold would win the race?
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your heads per the instructions.
By dick, October 14, 2008 at 8:21 am Link to this comment
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My thoughts, entirely. But I will vote with clear conscience for Nader.
Report thisBy Purple Girl, October 14, 2008 at 7:25 am Link to this comment
And a Miracle Worker- slapping the Republicans Wake from their Drug Induced Coma!!
Report thisOne Brownie Point for Sarah!
This campaign has shown a very Bright light upon the most vile part of our society…We should thank them for this Reverse Psychology,aka Backlash. No Racist like to be called Out as Such in Public.Reason they use code Words and phrases,because they are Innately Terrified PUSSIES! Funniest thing to watch is a Redneck in Detroit….You don’t just see the Fear on their Faces, you can Smell it!
I have lived outside Detroit most my life, went to Events throughout..I have NEVER had a Problem in Detroit..Why because I’m Not afraid, and I’m Not a Dumbass!Respect and Empathy are the best protection. You don’t need a Gun to go to Detroit, all you need is a smile and the Balls to look ‘em in the eye.
I can pick out a Racist a Mile away in the City, their heads are down as they scurry their Butt Puckered asses across the Street- easy Pickin’s, even for a White girl to Identify!
By Big B, October 14, 2008 at 6:14 am Link to this comment
Hitchens does tend to remind me of that grizzled old man at the end of your local bar, who constantly laments the downfall of america because we gave women and jiggs the right to vote.
The truly scarey part is that he will be one of the first in line to vote on election day.
Report thisBy thebeerdoctor, October 14, 2008 at 3:08 am Link to this comment
I really love the pedantic screeds of someone like Hitchens. The booze inflated, once “hard left” blow hard, who saw greener, or at least more lucrative, pastures in the neocon fields, now is shocked, absolutely shocked, that those very same folks could offer up Governor Sarah Palin.
Report thisBy Maryanne Jameson, October 14, 2008 at 2:59 am Link to this comment
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Christopher Hitchens? Great, another phoney disgrace of a journalist rehabilitated by Palin bashing. Katie Couric started a trend, and the bottom is not in sight.
Report thisBy Saddler, October 14, 2008 at 1:06 am Link to this comment
I can’t believe Truthdig’s editors felt that Hitchens’s opinion was important enough to post. He’s an attention-starved hack who is saying something fairly obvious for a change. What will he say next? Who cares! Next.
Report thisBy WeMustChange, October 13, 2008 at 8:48 pm Link to this comment
I agree wholeheartedly!
It is my goal to get in touch with someone from the Obama campaign and share with them my desire to be a part of his inauguration by reciting a poem I wrote called “We Must Change,” and I kindly ask for your help in doing so.
Go to youtube and do a search for “thinkverybig” and watch all of those videos. The one called “We Must Change” would be fitting to recite at Obama’s Inauguration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM58nqX1ehE
Here are the words! http://www.thinkverybig.com/We Must Change.htm
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Report thisBy Jim Watt, October 13, 2008 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment
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Whatever sympathy I had for Senator McCain as a patriot and a victim of smear tactics in South Carolina was lost when he chose this person as his vice-presidential candidate. And his refusal to either rein her in or dump her has destroyed whatever claim he could ever make again to being a “straight talker”! It’s evident that he is a pitiful old man and common decency would suggest that we all be quiet about him from this point forward. Indeed, I wonder if Keith Oberman hasn’t hit the nail on the head when he suggested that the Governor of Alaska may be some kind of ‘stealth’ democrat on a mission to destroy the Republican party. Certainly the Senator is acting increasingly like some kind of mysterious ‘Manchurian Candidate.’
Report thisBy Allan Krueger, October 13, 2008 at 7:32 pm Link to this comment
F*ckin, eh!
Report thisBy faith, October 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm Link to this comment
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Very well said !
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