Roger,

While I’m glad to see the Hitch express some trepidation about Obama, his previous three columns for “Slate” were hysterical attacks on Palin and a defense of Rashid Khalidi which was shameful. I don’t know if I can forgive him for such shilling for Obama. If you know him personally, you need to show him a couple of Martin Kramer posts: http://www.martinkramer.org/ and then ask him to apologize to McCain for his outrageous defense of Khalidi. You also might want to gently remind him that his poisonous attitude toward religion is like an acid eating away his normally sharp powers of analytical reasoning.