Monday, January 14, 2008

Christopher Hitchens Reminds Us of Somehting Important

B- Daddy here. In an online article in today's Slate, Christopher Hitchens acidly reminds us why Hillary Clinton's election would be bad for America. Beyond the serial mendacity, the cock-up on health care and lying for Bill and thereby betraying fellow women, Hitchens has this to say about her support for the Iraq invasion that somehow morphed into supposed opposition just before the Iowa caucii:

"Now, it does not especially matter whether you agree or agreed with her about this (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband's help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration? Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut."

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