Hitchens Endorses Obama

Hitchens backs Obama. I have to say, this paragraph resonates with me:

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that "issue" I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. 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.

I breathed a great sigh of relief when Obama picked Biden as running-mate (I blogged about it, but am too lazy to find the link now -- if you're interested it would be in the August archives), because he is not a fool about Islamism. And I too, am a single-issue voter. A friend of mine, an economist, laughs when people cite Obama's economic policies as a reason to support him, because, as my friend points out, a president can do very little to affect the economy. The economy, my friend says, falls apart and sorts itself out pretty much on its own. What a president can do, is make a dent in foreign policy. So that is really what you have to take into consideration.