Horizon

He couldn't possibly have been more sour about it.

Good thing it's not a two-issue election. Otherwise he'd have to vote six times.

It is a little depressing that almost everyone appears to be voting against the candidate they're more afraid of.

Atrios caught this apparent Bush endorsement from Hitchens in The Nation. Am guessing the Hitch is too impressed with his own "intellectual honesty" to bother being consistent. That or he wants to discourage his readers from bothering to vote at all. BTW is he actually a U.S. citizen & able to vote here now?

No, he isn't.

So he's not voting, only meddling, like those infamous Guardian readers?

I trust that 'meddling' was intended ironically ... (BTW, the point about the Guardian affair was not that they were meddling, which is a silly complaint rightly ignored, but that the whole project was disastrously ill-advised if the intention was to boost the Democratic vote - which the editors more or less admitted it was).

Yes, intended as a swipe at the people who wrote such irate letters to the Guardian about furriners staying out of other people's elections, as in do they want to send Hitchens about his business too? BTW did you see the Bush campaign website may be blocking access to readers outside North America? I wonder how the Republicans Abroad feel about that.

It seems as though there may be a security issue, as they have been attacked by hackers operating outside the US ... the truth of the matter is anyone's guess, but it seems to me that if the Reps want to restrict who can see their website, then that's pretty much up to them.

Ben would probably know better than I, but my understanding is that it's trivially easy to get around any kind of geographical blocking on the internet. Seems a pointless exercise.