Cheat Sheet

Today in Slate, Christopher Hitchens chops away at John McCain with typical wit. “I suppose it could be said, as Michael Gerson has alleged,” he writes, “that the Obama campaign's choice of the word erratic to describe McCain is also an insinuation. But really, it's only a euphemism.” Eh-hmm. “With McCain,” Hitch continues, “the ‘experience’ is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke.” The result is a surprise endorsement of Obama from the unabashedly pro-war Brit. “Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience.”