Hitchens on the Victory: The Final Hour

[The Night Owl]

Article by Christopher Hitchens...

The Final Hour
By Christopher Hitchens on Nov 5, 08 04:50 AM in Election night

The only thing that one could not bear to hear, over the last few days, was the safety-first pundit mantra "too close to call".

That impossible verdict was the only result that one could not properly visualise. It was plain that this was not a margin-of-error election, or a split-the-difference poll result, but a historic event, or a "swing-state" event where all the commentary is monopolised by those who have a personal stake in muddying the waters.

It was, instead, a watershed event in which the Republican Party had to endure a considered "thumbs down" from the heartland of the country and the middle class of American society - the two areas which it had falsely claimed to own as its own property.

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http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/hitchens/2008/11/the-final-hour.html#more

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Hitchens then added looking at his waiter...

"God Dammit! I asked for olives in this Gin & Tonic! Do you see any fuckin' olives in here? Oh yeah, where was I"?

I haven't forgotten Hitchens drunken, hateful rants against Democrats and Liberals nor have I forgotten his unwavering support for GW Bush a few years ago.