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."
When a person goes through each day, day after day, and doesn't do a single smart thing, what is it about him that is intellectual?
Mister Veedle needs another call from Ernestine Tomlin at the phone cumpny.
The only thing WFB got wrong there was holding back from cold-conking that flamer.
Vidal is a truther?
Who cares what a famous hairdresser says anyway.(sarcasm)
H/T to SBC
ewwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww......get out the tin foil so we can make a hat for vidal. :)
What's Vidal's evidence of that? There are no college records, no Law Review articles, no ability to speak extemporaneously. The only thing we have to go on is the book which, as it turns out, Obama did not write. So in other words, we know zero about Zero's vaunted brilliance.
Gore is well past his research days. I do hope he keeps lookin’ for love over there with the Democrats though ~ by now he should have given half the party’s top dogs several different STDs.
I have a simple question about what Gore Vidal has to say — WHO CARES?!?
"Renowned historian"??!!!! My ever expanding rear end.
“Intellectual?” Based on what...his ability to read?
“Hitler youth”
This old lefty `trousers-shark’ must be well into dementia, thinking of the Obama WH encouraging school children to sing devotionals to Dear Leader, like German children in the `30s. I don’t recall any of that fascist nonsense during the 8 years of the recent adult, late, great Republic.
“...the first intellectual president...”
What this means is that Obama is the first president we’ve had in a while that believes government knows all and can do all. Of course, Obama’s incompetence lies in his failure to use government to accomplish what his commie followers want, the complete collapse of American, imperialistic hegemony around the world and the destruction of capitalist, robber barons at home. In short, government can’t become the omniscient, omnipotent, absolute sovereign power dreamt of by the left as long as a trace of old America is still around. obama isn’t moving fast enough for this freak.
I love it when liberals call us “Hitler Youth,” the “Reichwing,” “Rethuglicans” and so forth. It makes us sound even more badass than we already are!
Ah, geez. Will someone give Mr. Vidal his meds and wheel him into the day room? Better check his diapers while you’re at it.
“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 ...”
And yet he fails to make the clear connection between pretentious intellectualism and practical incompetence. This is why “intellectuals” are better off spending their time teaching.
SnakeDoc
That's one approach. Here's another.
There’s an important error right at the beginning. Vidal is *not* a historian, but a “historical writer”. There is as much of a difference as between a medical doctor and an actor who plays a doctor on television.
The Gay Forger hasn’t died from AIDS yet? Amazing.
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