Hitch didn’t disown his decision to vote for Obama. He just refuses to join in the flight to fantasy land.
Is O’bama more “socialist” than McCain? Well, yeah. And it’s a shorter drive to China from Chicago than it is from New York. It doesn’t make Chicago and China neighbors. As for the socialism/fascism debate, read Goldberg’s book. He makes a good case that fascism is a brand of socialism. (And if you don’t like Goldberg, use Wiki.) Sure you can label aspects of the right wing fascist, but you don’t have to stretch any further to do the same with aspects of the left. It’s just useless namecalling.