Quote of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on June 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
Explaining that Sen. Clinton’s loss was due in large part to her husband’s behavior on the trail, Hitchens, a troublesome grin appearing on his face, concluded: “That pleases me more than I can say. In fact, I think I might orgasm in my trousers.”…
And yet, lest one think Hitchens was an supporter of Barack Obama, he had some choice critiques for the Illinois Democrat as well. On the Senator’s highly praised speech on race that he gave in Philadelphia during the crest of the Jeremiah Wright scandal, the Vanity Fair writer challenged members of the audience to recited a single line.
“You can’t,” he proclaimed, a bit excited that his prophecy had turned true. “It was one of the most boring speeches ever made.”
Hitchens also poked fun at Obama’s recent address in Minneapolis in which it was officially announced that he was the presumptive Democratic nominee. Pronouncing Obama a “megalomaniac” who had the self-delusion to suggest that his primary victory would be looked back upon as the day water levels started to recede, Hitchens mockingly declared: “Just by gathering the delegate count he has arrested the climate crisis.”
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That having been said, Hitchens is right about Obama. A blind hog will find an acorn in the woods every once in a while…
papabryant on June 12, 2008 at 8:57 AM
This is precisely what Soros and his minions have done. Where our strengths exist, if they could dilute them, they did. Where they couldn’t, they worked tirelessly to destroy our strengths by changing the perception of them, both here at home and internationally.
Working to bring down one’s own country is a pretty sick means to an end.
Connie on June 12, 2008 at 9:33 AM
papabryant on June 12, 2008 at 8:55 AM
I’m sure that’s great consolation to the millions who have died in the various Hindu-Muslim conflicts, the untold dead in Islam’s initial sortie from Arabia, those who died in the crusades, the victims of those who fought for their Shinto god in WWII and those today who are overtaxing Allah’s virgin factories.
The pseudo scholarship of Vox Day hardly merits comment but plenty can be found using a google search.
Annar on June 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM
I actually kinda like Hitchens. He usually says exactly what he means, and he’s got the chutzpah to take a positions that defy liberal orthodoxy. I love it when he gets into their faces.
He’s wrong more often than he’s right, but that’s actually pretty good for a liberal. Most of them are wrong just about all the time.
philwynk on June 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM
Entelechy on June 12, 2008 at 12:38 AM
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Probably, but I see Obama as a sort of surrealistic reflection of his associations. He is whatever they want him to be. As we uncover and force him to remove his associations, we discover there is nothing of substance to the man himself. Like an elementary school sticker book collector whose self-esteem is just another sticker that has been awarded to him because he is, rather than because he’s earned it.
Connie on June 12, 2008 at 11:38 AM
I’ve been saying this since Obama made that “amazing” DNC Convention speech in 2004. I’ve never heard anyone, ever, QUOTE Barack Obama. All he ever does is spout meaningless platitutes; he never actually SAYS anything.
Liberals just believe Obama is “articulate” because, apparently, they’re all so utterly amazed to hear a liberal black person speak English clearly that they’d never in a million years stop and actually listen carefully enough to tell whether he was doing so cogently.
logis on June 12, 2008 at 12:02 PM
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