09-23-2008, 01:05 AM
We, the voting populace of this country, are generally conservative and, since it is "independents" - or, more correctly, unenrolled voters - that decide the fate of any Presidential race, the pendulum will always swing to the right (with the possible exception of 1976). Hitchens certainly does understand this, but there's almost no real story, nothing to hang his scarf on. So we now we get this half-hearted attempt at linking Obama with a known quantity, a person we know to be synonymous with failure (who, btw, is a real intellectual and a great speaker, so he does have that in common with Obama). It's a blithe analysis and rather glib, IMO.