Posted on 10/11/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Renowned American historian Gore Vidal says that President Barack Obama would lose 2012 presidential elections, calling the first black US president "incompetent."
In an interview with the Independent, Vidal sharply criticized Obama who took power when the United States was involved in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
About the election of Obama, Vidal said that he was initially optimistic, but after witnessing the administration, he has relegated himself to despair.
"He's incompetent. He will be defeated for re-election. It's a pity because he's the first intellectual president we've had in many years, but he can't hack it. He's not up to it. He's overwhelmed," said the 84-year-old Vidal.
"[Obama] wants to be liked by everybody, and he thought all he had to do was talk reason," the novelist continued.
"But remember - the Republican Party is not a political party. It's a mindset, like Hitler Youth. It's full of hatred. You're not going to get them aboard. Don't even try. The only way to handle them is to terrify them. He's too delicate for that."
Vidal also predicted that "Afghanistan will be terminal for the American empire," which he sees as a positive development.
"This kid [Obama] has never heard a gun fired in anger. He's absolutely bowled over by generals, who tell him lies and he believes them. He hasn't done anything."
"He's not ready for prime time and he's getting a lot of prime time on his plate at once."
The intellectual once again called the 2000 election "stolen" by the Bush administration then added they were "probably" involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
This is not the first time he has assailed the government's public theory of the attacks. In 2008, Vidal said that 9/11 was "a coup d'etat" to overthrow the government, allowing the Bush administration "[to] make legal each and every breach of the constitution that [they] had in mind."
Vidal has long since lived in Europe, and they surely deserve one another.
If my college gives my dog a degree does that make him an intellectual? The paper and title means nothing if it was just GIVEN to you because of the color of your skin.
If you’ve been following Lib/Democrat websites on Vidal’s comments, he’s committed HERESY, and is currently being excommunicated from the Church of Liberalism....
The man’s been calling conservatives and Republicans Nazis for (at least) forty years. You’d think one of The Great American Writers would have come up with better material by now.
When ever talking with a liberal and they say that vague stuff I immediately ask for specifics. It stumps them. They just hear this crap over and over and begin repeating it without knowing any details. When the say the Republicans ruined America for the past 8 years I ask how exactly? They stumble and then mumble something about deficits and I remind them the last Republican Congress fiscal budget was 2007 and only had a $160 billion deficit while Obama is running up close to a $2 trillion deficit his first year.
Just always ask them to be specific and you can rip them a new one.
Cool! We're Hitler youth! National Socialism for everyone! Let's betray Israel and go Sarah Palin by visciously assaulting her family at every turn...no wait, that's the DEMONCRATS...
Black theology = Intellectual President
In liberal world, anyone who talks slowly, quietly and seems to think a lot between statements is smart.
Seig Hel!!!
You know what they say, old queens never die, they just bitch away . . .
Intellectual writers are like democrat Presidents,
just because they were a winner once, they think
they are a winner forever. NOT.
If it's coming from Gore Vidal, loathsome, decadent, degenerate, treasonous, perfidious, America hating, homo commie scum then it's for sure that it's really, really true. Un huh. I believe him.
If it's coming from Gore Vidal, loathsome, decadent, degenerate, treasonous, perfidious, America hating, homo commie scum then it's for sure that it's really, really true. Un huh. I believe him.
Renowned for his ignorance, why yes I believe he is.
BTW folks, please don't hate people who wish to destroy our nation.
That is just mean! /s
Hitler youth indeed... how about Hitler senior moments by Vidal... I guess that's okay. Fascism? Ok! Reverse racism? Ok! Disarming America? Why that's fantastic! The USA ceasing to be the world's leader? Wow, that would be stellar!
Vidal, you dumb ass clueless bastard, may God deprive you of seeing the end results of your dreams come true.
Evidently you can't fathom the result of a world dominated by a China/Russian cabal.
Think terrorism on a scale never seen before. Think people like you purged first, as the intellectuals are driven into camps to be reeducated. For all your professed knowledge base, you have learned absolutely nothing from history.
Purges:
Russia
China
Vietnam
Cambodia
Do you remember any of this?
What the hell do you think the end of our Republic will garner, if not the same results we have seen over and over again, when communist leadership dominates?
They should stop feeding you. The world is in such desperate shape, we should just save the resources. You want my nation to die, and there-by me, my family, and our fellow citizens to be dominated, reeducated, and subjugated to all manner of evil. And you call us Hitler-like.
F Y
William F. Buckley calls Gore Vidal a “goddam queer”. Video here:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/lofty-william-f-buckley-called-gore-vidal-queer
“The intellectual”
Is this a replacement for “the senile,” or “the Communist?” I can’t be sure which is the correct one to use for Vidal...or was this Jimmy Carter in disguise.
Gore Vidal?? The same guy Norman mailer bitch-slapped about 40 years ago? And we’re supposed to care what this old commie queer says?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
GORE VIDAL: You must realize what some of the political issues are here. There are many, even in the United States [who] happen to believe that the United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Viet Cong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of Western Europe and many other parts of the world. If it is a novelty in Chicago, that is too bad, but I assume that the point of the American democracy…
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: And some people were pro-Nazi, too, some people were pro-Nazi.
GV: …is you can express any point of view you want. Shut up a minute.
WFB: No I won’t. Some people were pro-Nazi, and the answer is they were well-treated by people who ostracized them, and I’m for ostracizing people who egg on other people to shoot American Marines and American soldiers. I know you don’t care, because you don’t have any sense of identification…
GV: As far as I am concerned, the only sort of pro- or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself. Failing that,…
MODERATOR: Let’s not call names.
GV: …I would only say that we can’t have the right of assembly…
WFB: Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi…
MOD: Let’s stop calling names and let’s get…
WFB: …or I’ll sock you in the G**d*** face and you’ll stay plastered.
MOD: Gentlemen, let’s…
WFB: Let the author of Myra Breckenridge go back to his pornography and stop making any allusions of Nazism…
MOD: I beg you to…
WFB: …to someone who served in the infantry in the last war and…
“The Divine One” is glib and cunning, not intelligent. Truly a paraphrase taken from one of from Shakespeare’s plays is applicable to “Him:”...a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”
So which is it? Is he an intellectual, or did he say those things? Can you be an intellectual and a complete moron at the same time?
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