Hitchens home to roost

After a very long sequence of crimes against political literacy, even Christopher Hitchens has been brought back to his senses by the Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin campaign. Here’s the article. And here’s the money quote:

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured.