Hitchens on Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State

[KowBoySpace]

go to 4:10 and Peter Beinart is talking but not on the screen. Tell me you dont think of the Muppet show

[rmcdaniel423]

2:04

. . . that is precisely why I disdain politicians so much. "It would be in HER interest". Who gives a shit about HER interest? Anyone that fawns over these egomaniacs and their "careers" and "chances for reelection" deserves to get anal warts on their mouths from all the ass kissing.

[Moh5Itachi1]

lets no rehash all the scandals of the 1990's LOL

[ConalCochran]

Hitchens vs. Gomer Pyle

[masadamac1]

Hitchens is a reprobate; he won't debate Ravi Zacharias as he knows he can't refute facts and absolutes.

[MrOzanachronism]

@masadamac1 I'm always very hesitant in applying reprobacy to anybody, because only God really knows who he's given up, and who is for hell. But his scorn and his branding of Christ's vicarious redemption as 'repulsive' has the hallmarks of someone whose sense of good and evil is irreparably damaged.

[02Blackbeard]

@MrOzanachronism You are the fucking reprobate. Jesus never died on the cross. He was taken down in a state of shock induced coma, and then revived. He later went on to travel to India where he died in old age.

He was no more or less God than I am.

The idea of God demanding a blood sacrifice in order to pacify his anger is vile. Christians are fundamentally evil.

You people believe in an evil God, so that makes you well fucking suspect.

Feed Christians to the lions, I say :))))))

[MrOzanachronism]

@02Blackbeard Pot calling the kettle black - the former 'Christian' minister who once was enlightened, but, as men seek darkness rather than light, renounced Christ and calls God evil. That's about as close to the definition of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit as it gets.

[MrOzanachronism]

@02Blackbeard Just expect that I will take the fight to very gates of Hell for my Lord and Saviour, with His help. You and your master are doomed, and your days are numbered. Deep down, you know this - not that you care.

[02Blackbeard]

@MrOzanachronism Just get a nice fat joint...sit down and smoke it :) You will soon forget all this silly nonsense about Jesus and the Day of Judgment.

All gods reside in the human breast (Blake).

Chill out man, and stop wasting your life on a bunch of illusions.

I renounced all this crap 4 years ago and I feel a lot better for it.

[MrOzanachronism]

@02Blackbeard I've had all the pleasures of this world - drugs, women, parties, vain philosophies.

'I renounced all this crap 4 years ago and I feel a lot better for it.'

In other words, I'm wasting my time talking to an apostate.

[02Blackbeard]

@MrOzanachronism I am certainly an apostate.

The point is dude, you are grasping at straws. Don't you know that the Christian religion is best thought of as an allegory? It's a story with ethical and mystical content. Read in that way it can even be helpful. But all this fundamentalism is counter productive if you are hoping to live a happy and meaningful life.

The last time I had hold of the sacrament I put it down the toilet, pissed on it, and flushed it away. Great catharsis.

Chill out :)

[MrOzanachronism]

@02Blackbeard No... dude, YOU think of 'the Christian religion' as an allegory. I'd love to see how you answer to He whom you've renounced, and the blood you've profaned at the White Throne. Hell could never be hot enough for such miserable souls.

[nyomythus]

@MrOzanachronism Looks like we have a sincere Christian here.

[02Blackbeard]

@MrOzanachronism Dream on dude...

[AgentTheGreat]

Nope. Hitchens keeps sinking down the list of my favorite atheists!

[RoughshodElm]

@AgentTheGreat why?

[AgentTheGreat]

@RoughshodElm

Because he is so rude, and his method of debating is childish. He constantly cuts people off with childish remarks like "yes it is" as if he is in high school.

Dawkins is much more civil. He allows the other person to talk; he then politely takes his turn, brings logical points to the argument and again waits for the other person to talk.

To me, Hitchens is the symbol of arrogance.

[RoughshodElm]

@AgentTheGreat Naw man it's because he's talking to fucking morons who can't think rationally... Of course he's going to be rude to these guys... He's fucking fed up with these dumb fucks..

[writersblock26]

@AgentTheGreat Well, I agree with you that Hitchens is at times belligerent to his opponents, and that does get old after a while. But I can't deny he has an irresistible charm about him (and I even say that as a straight guy)..

[jgillevet]

Is this the best Htchens can do. Hillary's brother's hazelnut fiasco.

[nyomythus]

@jgillevet Amazon the title, "No One Left To Lie To" for starters.

[Loals]

Jesus fucking christ, can the non-Hitchenses stop screaming all the time? I's annoying.

[moiphx2]

Hitchens pisses all over the guy with the speech impediment.

[samOFblorx]

Wow, I'm missing something. What's the word? What "important verb" is missing?

[TheMARIOFAN4]

Is it better to have the Clinton's "fucking" Obama within the umbrella of the cabinet -- rather than "fucking" him from out side his control? What a dilemma!!

[TheMARIOFAN4]

Junior is a hostage to that fortune -- or misfortune.

[samOFblorx]

Oh! Fuck....

What a word.

[nyomythus]

yay!

[PEinHK]

9 months later, Hitchens looks EVEN MORE right about this!

[FranklySpeaking2U]

Alexander Cockburn, of The Nation wrote:

What a truly disgusting sack of shit Hitchens is [— a] guy who called Sid Blumenthal one of his best friends and then tried to have him thrown into prison for perjury; a guy who waited til his friend Edward Said was on death bed before attacking him in the Atlantic Monthly; a guy who knows perfectly well the role Israel plays in U.S. policy but who does not scruple to flail Cindy Sheehan as an Anti-Semite because, she dared mention the word Israel.

[ganymedic]

You said it- of The Nation.

[nyomythus]

Cockburn is an agenda driven cockburner.

[MetaMorphy]

Yeah, Clinton's connections to Indonesia are the ones we should be exclusively worried about. Don't mention Biden's---or Obama's himself.

[cjst22]

Hitchens is an idiot there are two sides to every story and hitchens is very very biased.

[nyomythus]

He's the other side of the story and you don't want to hear the.. other side of the ...story .. sounds like a bias no doubt.

[VJnumber1]

I'd do anything for Christopher Hitchens...I'd even eat Marmite.

[nrthdude1]

People ask what Hillary's experience is.

That's so ironic. 

First, if you're an Obama supporter, you have no right questioning Hillary's experience, she's certainly got a hell of a lot more than Mr. Obama. Even Sara Palin has more experience than Barack.

If you're a Republican, and experience is meaningful to you, than why did you select Sara Palin for the VP slot? Just because Sara has more experience than Obama doesn't mean she has much at all.

[nrthdude1]

Why doesn't this foreigner go back to England and criticize the Royals who live off the taxpayers?

I am thrilled that the DNC which allowed the Obama campaign to run a sexist campaign against Hillary ($ Sara Palin) as well as smear Bill Clinton as a rcaist.

Hillary is over-qualified for the job and certainly has more experience than Obama who has less experience than Sara Palin.

Hillary has the diplomatic skills, the brilliance and the personality needed in these troubled times.

[AngelosandSatan]

you are vastly, ignorant, uneducated and have been misled...I feel sorry for you...you are the perfect sheep citizen with blinders the system supports in the USA

[heyoooooooo0]

yeah, i'd like to know when exactly hitchens accused clinton of being too hawkish. peter should listen to his opponent before spewing his rehearsed arguments for the blue team.

[mtklima]

Hitchens spot on, as usual. They should have him everyday. The guy is brilliant.

[shonester]

Nothing like some British guy writing for Vanity Fair to give his opinions....lol

MSNBC is sinking to new lows daily

He's just mad that Obama isn't change...and is taking it on Hillary

[rodeo179]

the guy is intelligent nevertheless

[rodeo179]

neo-con supporting warmonger, mr. hitchens

enuff said!!!

[pml4010]

hitchens is spot on! can't get enough of this guy

[chbrules]

I hope to the FSM that Hillary doesn't step foot in the white house again. Bill, on the other hand, I don't think it would be entirely bad to have him on staff for foreign policy and economic strategy.

Look at the national debt trends. Clinton was the last one to bring it down since all the Neo-cons have been destroying our economy for the past 30+ years.

[zutroy1]

Bill is a complete and utter failure. That is why after he left office he had to go to Rwanda and apologize for sitting idly by as over 800 000 innocents were slaughtered needlessly because Bill was a fat coward who could care less about innocent african deaths and waited until it was much much too late to go into bosnia in 1995. Bill was an absolute humiliation to the US and that is if you dont even include lying under oath and getting blow jobs while "on duty".

[nyomythus]

Thanks zutroy1, those are good points to mention.

[garthy1415]

pissing

[jonathandavidfinch]

What's the verb missing? Rather want the Clintons inside the administration than outside.

[nyomythus]

The answer was obviously 'fucking' -- does Obama want Bill and Hillary fucking him from the outside or from the inside. I was surprised Hitchens suggested it that way, but nonetheless it was hilarious.

[zutroy1]

The answer isn't fucking, you have to remember that Hitchens is or was a brit.

The expression is "it's better to have them on the inside pissing out than outside pissing in"

[zutroy1]

and to add to myself that it is a very goood analogy because the Clintons rarely do anything that amount to more than pissing about

[nyomythus]

I stand corrected, thanks :)

[nyomythus]

I'm beginning to suspect that the "Obama is the Messiah" delusion is a continuation of the regime change in Iraq is Imperialism delusion.

[NefeshChaim]

What is Hilary Clinton's foreign policy experience? She traveled with her husband? What are her great decisionmaking and policy formulation experience? She completely botched universal healthcare. Why is this person given so much praise for a career full of mistakes? She voted for a war Americans don't like, I mean what are her qualifications? Just because one is in Senate and First Lady doesnt make one qualified.

[spinlandstudios]

Is it just me or was Hitchens loaded during that interview? Catch the burp while he was trying to talk? Heh. Is he ever sober? :p

[nyomythus]

"Matthews & Hitchens: misogynist, pathetic", why? ...'just because' isn't good enough.

[beethovenqueen]

Matthews & Hitchens: misogynist, pathetic

Beinart: fair, informed and the only real journalist in this vid.

Hillary is the best person for the SOS position. Imagine Kerry or Richardson - ick!!

[Bastardozer]

more feminist claptrap; hillary clinton is a political hack and this appointment is a slap in the face to all of us who actually were hoping for dramatic reform

[amartin7889]

Why is he touting Clinton's second term, when it included the invasion of Bosnia, the invasion of Somalia, and the Iraqi Liberation Act?