DeeJayH
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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Times Online
hopefully he is wrong about the assassination. Hopefully he is right about the election going Right, and healthcare. But he is way off base on the religious hatred crap. Some are, most are not
How’s Obama doing? “Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced.
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It has wrecked the airline business, which my father founded in the 1930s. He’d be cutting his wrists. Now when you fly you’re both scared to death and bored to death, a most disagreeable combination.”
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but there was an age of general intelligence. We had a watchdog, the media.” The media is too supine? “Would that it was. They’re busy preparing us for an Iranian war.”
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Obama believes the Republican Party is a party when in fact it’s a mindset, like Hitler Youth, based on hatred — religious hatred,
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Another notable Obama mis-step has been on healthcare reform. “He f***ed it up. I don’t know how because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen.”
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Has he met Obama? “No,” he says quietly, “I’ve had my time with presidents.” Vidal raises his fingers to signify a gun and mutters: “Bang bang.” He is referring to the possibility of Obama being assassinated. “Just a mysterious lone gunman lurking in the shadows of the capital,” he says in a wry, dreamy way.
hopefully he is wrong about the assassination. Hopefully he is right about the election going Right, and healthcare. But he is way off base on the religious hatred crap. Some are, most are not