Hitchens on the Deeper Implications of Hillary's Bosnia Lies

Having gone to Sarajevo himself in 1992, Christopher Hitchens is not amused by Hillary Clinton's "recollections" of her 1996 trip to Tuzla. Particularly galling to Hitchens is that Hillary's claim to "bravery" during her Bosnia trip references a point in time after which over 250,000 Bosnian Muslims had been slaughtered by Serbian forces while Hillary was focusing on her health-care initiative.

"Yet Sen. Clinton, given repeated chances to modify her absurd claim to have operated under fire while in the company of her then-16-year-old daughter and a USO entertainment troupe, kept up a stone-faced and self-loving insistence that, yes, she had exposed herself to sniper fire in the cause of gaining moral credit and, perhaps to be banked for the future, national-security "experience." This must mean either a) that she lies without conscience or reflection; or b) that she is subject to fantasies of an illusory past; or c) both of the above."

Her claims to be an authority on national security and foreign policy are just as baseless as Barrack Obama's claims from having lived overseas as a child.

More on the Great Transcender

Thomas Sowell, The Audacity of Rhetoric;
Bookworm, Obama's Messianic Schtick;
and, from March 2007:
David Ehrenstein, Obama the 'Magic Negro'

The Great Transcender's verbal sleight of hand

Christopher Hitchens's Monday column in Slate shreds Barack Obama's rhetorical puffery in his much-vaunted (at least from the point of view of Obama-as-messiah cultists) speech on race in America.

Contrary to Obama's claims that the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright's outrageous condemnations were a recent revelation to the Great Transcender, Obama knew at least as early as April 2007 that should he advance in the Democratic primaries, he would have to publicly distance himself from Wright. In other words, Obama was perfectly content to garner political support in Chicago's black community by staying close to Wright until he built a wide enough base to support his national run. He has tried to be one person in the congregation of Trinity United Church of Christ supporting the hateful speech of his racist pastor, while presenting himself as some great racial healer to the American public.

From Hitchens's column:

"To have accepted Obama's smooth apologetics is to have lowered one's own pre-existing standards for what might constitute a post-racial or a post-racist future. It is to have put that quite sober and realistic hope, meanwhile, into untrustworthy and unscrupulous hands. And it is to have done this, furthermore, in the service of blind faith. Mark my words: This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come."

His hypocrisy stuns and insults. Unfortunately, too many people still exclaim in wonder at the emperor's new clothes.

Now back with more Genius!

In preparation for the Election 2008 Extravaganza, I intend to be blogging on a much more frequent basis, with a goal of highlighting what I consider to be some of the most interesting aspects of this campaign season.