Initially, Christopher Hitchens, the Vanity Fair columnist and author of the bestseller God Is Not Great, was someone whose unfiltered arrogance was strangely compelling despite its ugliness. Though the concept behind his diatribes against religion made me squirm in my pew, he was often right even when he was dead wrong (if that makes sense). I had not heard of or read any other work or op-ed piece by Mr. Hitchens, so I had no basis for his stance on other sociocultural themes.
Then I came across his recent terse commentary on Barack Obama, which makes all the other "race card" hoo-ha you've been reading for the past few days seem like much ado about nothing (which it is, actually).
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