Hitchens 1, Hitchens 0
This Hitchens apparently didn’t succumb to the Obamania. Peter, scathingly, at the Daily Mail, The Night We Waved Goodbye to America … Our Last best Hope on Earth:
Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernise Heaven and Hell – or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilisation. At least Mandela-worship – its nearest equivalent – is focused on a man who actually did something.
I really don’t see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
Here’s the bit about America:
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique.
These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America’s conservative party – the Republicans – to fight on the cultural and moral fronts.
They preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?
But you’ll want to read the whole merciless thing.
Thank God, we were down a Hitchens. Though I’m not ready to write the place off yet. Here’s Peter on his previous public disagreements with his better-known brother Christopher, by the way. Looking around but not seeing that Brother Chris has opined since the Obamascension. He may be still trying to figure out how to remain an Obamist without sounding like a gaga-eyed suckupist. Could be a problem.
Topics: Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:59 pm on Sunday, November 9, 2008
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