Sarah Palin is a national disgrace and Cindy Sheehan is a sob sister, but Bush and his unprovoked attack on Iraq are just swell.

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.

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. .

“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.”  Hitchens

As Dana Carvey would say, “Isn’t he special.”

I agree with TheBeerDoctor.  But on Democracy Now! Blumenthal from the Nation magazine exposed Palin as the link to the introduction of brownshirts into mainstream national politics starting with goons from Alaska.  It’s like some force picked up the US from Florida pivoting one the other end and everyone with a screw loose tumbled into Alaska.  If Palin winds up in the WH, it will be like my mother used to say before she whacked me, “I’ll give you something to cry about.”

And a Miracle Worker- slapping the Republicans Wake from their Drug Induced Coma!!
One 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!

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.

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.

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.

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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F*ckin, eh!