Posted on 10/11/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t think Jimmuh was on a Boomer, I’m pretty sure he served aboard a diseasel...
They didn’t have missile submarines (”boomers”) back then (early-to-mid 1950’s), he was on the early nuclear boats, right after the USS Nautilus. He was one of the early Admiral Hyman Rickover disciples.
"Now listen here, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."
What more needs to be said?
Cheers!
He's overdue for his Obamacare, that's what he is.
Cheers!
He knew how to deal with gits like Vidal.
It bears repeating.
Cheers!
You mean like the French minister of, ahem, "culture", who recently admitted that he went to Thailand to pay little boys for sex...?
Cheers!
Whatta maroon, but he’s loved by the ‘glitterati’, so he gets press whenever he wants it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDCRe_QzuM
Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm.
Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm.
Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmm.
How the Kettle likes to call the pot black, ect., and so forth.
Does anyone have Vidal's email so we can show him the New Hitler Jugend?
“Can you be an intellectual and a complete moron at the same time?”
Interesting Question. I think the answer is “yes” if you accept the way the term “intellectual” has been employed in recent decades. Thom Wolfe has discussed this a couple of times in different articles. Here’s what I can recall:
Until the years preceding the Great Depression, an intellectual was defined by what he produced. He dedicated himself to researching and attaining expertise in a scholarly subject. Not any more. (My remark: Now they call people like that “nerds”.)
Later on, (say over the past 80 years of so), an “intellectual “ has come to be defined by what he “consumes rather than what he produces” (smokes a pipe, grows a beard, wears preppy clothing, is conspicuously present at lectures, Shakespeare and Opera performances). In other words the term referred to a certain life style affectations.
In his recent book, “Hooking Up”, Wolfe has an essay titled “Land of the Rococo Marxists” where he discusses how prominent “intellectuals” have increasingly attained celebrity status by public displays of righteous indignation concerning matters about which that they have little or no knowledge.
“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 might have set a record there for self-evident projection. Do all supporters of tyranny justify themselves this way?
“This article is about the democritters, too?”
Absolutely, why not. Of course, they’re all treasonous scum also.
Gore Vidal: 'We'll Have A Dictatorship Soon In The US'
[Calls Republican Party "like Hitler Youth"]
September 30, 2009 Gore Vidal: 'We'll Have A Dictatorship Soon In The US' The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' -- and don't expect Barack Obama to save it Tim Teeman A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered in the war, his left knee is made of titanium). But he can walk ("Of course I can") and after a recent performance of Mother Courage at London's National Theatre he...
Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US'
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' -- and don't expect Barack Obama to save it. A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace. He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness. He is 83 and in a wheelchair (a result of hypothermia suffered in the war, his left knee is made of titanium). But he can walk ("Of course I can") and after a recent performance of Mother Courage at London's National Theatre he stood to deliver an anti-war speech to the audience.
Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US'
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' -- and don't expect Barack Obama to save it 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." As for his wider vision: "Maybe he doesn't have one, not to imply he is a fraud. He loves quoting Lincoln and there's a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. 'I am President of the United States....
US under Obama could slide into military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal
Barack Obama is failing as President and the US is in danger of sliding into a military dictatorship, says Gore Vidal, the American essayist and intellectual. In an exclusive interview with The Times, Vidal, 83, reveals that he regrets switching his allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Mr Obama during last year's campaign to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. "I was hopeful," he said of Mr Obama. "He was the most intelligent person we've had in that position for a long time. But he's inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He's acting as if Afghanistan is the...
If everyone can get past their distaste for Vidal and listen to what he’s saying he’s claiming that Obama just destroyed the American Left Wing.
I agree with him.
Perhaps. imo Obama is going to dismantle any organization which has any independence from the gov’t, reduce everyone he can to serfdom, and remove any leader who isn’t one of his familiars. Vidal is just a confused silver spoon type who occasionally gets one right.
Consider the source: pulp fiction writer; intellectual midget, whose polemics amount to nothing more than ad hominem attacks and statement of his opinion. I think he sees a lot of himself in BO.
And if there is any doubt about the vacuum between this guy's ears, consider that he pronounced Dennis Kucinich "the most eloquent" of the presidential candidates and that Kucinich "is very much a favorite out there in the amber fields of grain."
Riiiiight.
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