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I knew JFK, says Gore Vidal, and believe me Obama’s the better leader ( Race revolt if Obama loses)
Sunday Times ^
| May 18, 2008
| Melvyn Bragg
Posted on 05/17/2008 9:29:35 PM PDT by tlb
So what does he think of Hillary Clintons stated intention to fight on? I think her strategy is more or less insane.
. . . But this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy.
In his view Barack Obama has won; and if the nomination is taken away from him, I fear what our black population might do. There has never been a revolution of blacks yet.
As for Obama, I liked the idea of him, but he never managed to get my interest. I was brought around by his overall intelligence specifically when he did his speech on race and religion.
In Vidals opinion, hes our best demagogue since Huey Long or Martin Luther King.
I ask if he thinks Obama has a similar charisma to that of John F Kennedy.
I never believed in Jacks charisma, Vidal says shortly. JFK, he believes, was one of our worst presidents; Bobby, his brother, was a phoney, a little Torquemada; and their father, Joseph, was a crook should have been in jail.
His views on the man the Democratic candidate will have to beat are even more brutal than his views on Hillary: You could beat McCain! Ive never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into war hero.
The Bush people, he says, have virtually got rid of Magna Carta and habeas corpus. In a normal republic I would probably have raised an army and overthrown them. It will take a hundred years to put it all back.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; jfk; obama; vidal
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To: tlb
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:11:17 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: tlb
There was a time Vidal ( or Mr Veedle as Laugh In called him ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e3dTOJi0o
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:12:32 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
To: HerrBlucher
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:13:13 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
To: tlb
I fear what our black population might do. There has never been a revolution of blacks yet. oh great in the extremely unlikely event they win, we can become Haiti part Deux.
now that has sure worked out swell hasn't it?
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:15:05 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Obama is for the Deliverance Was A Documentary crowd)
To: Jack Black
I knew JFK, says Gore Vidal, and believe me Obamas the better leader (Race revolt if Obama loses) In what sense did the old queen "know" JFK? Just asking.
Me, at age 13, a very naive kid, watching the Democratic National Convention with my Mother and Father.
Me: "Mom, what's a Crypto Nazi?"
Mom: "It doesn't mean anything, it's just something that man Gore Vidal is calling Bill Buckley to make him angry."
Me: "OK. Mom? What's a queer?"
Mom: "It's what Gore Vidal is."
Dad: "It's like the creepy guy who follows you into the bathroom at Sears."
Me: "Oh."
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:16:45 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
("I want that crazy uncle institutionalized, pronto.")
To: tlb
And now I see this was already posted. “Vidal” search didn’t find it.
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:17:09 PM PDT
by
tlb
To: tlb
I’ve greatly enjoyed several of Vidal’s books, including Lincoln, Julian and Creation. This doesn’t lend any credibility to his views on politics or society, however - the man is a drama queen.
To: tlb
oooo the African Americans are going to revolt? Well its about time. They should feel sick about being used by the Democrap party.... unfortunately they will be looting and burning where they live and then cry out after everything is burnt that they have no place to live. The smart ones will leave. the dumb ones will loot and the polices will have their hands tied.... chaos will reign.... I can hardly wait.
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:33:18 PM PDT
by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: tlb
and what exactly has Obama led???
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:37:11 PM PDT
by
Falcon28
To: MplsSteve
At the risk of sounding alarmist or paranoid, Im afraid we could see an outbreak of urban violence much worse than the Rodney King riots back in 92. I recall stories of whites being harrassed and beat up in a number of cities across the US.
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And this time their little tantrums should be dealt with immediately.
To: MplsSteve
At the risk of sounding alarmist or paranoid, Im afraid we could see an outbreak of urban violence much worse than the Rodney King riots back in 92. I recall stories of whites being harrassed and beat up in a number of cities across the US.
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And this time their little tantrums should be dealt with immediately.
To: modest proposal
A grossly disproportionate rate.
No one wants to talk about that, in our “national conversation on race”, though.
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:51:43 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(<===Non-bitter, Gun-totin', Typical White American)
To: wardaddy
I fear what our black population might do. There has never been a revolution of blacks yet. Would this eventuality be more costly than the current racial extortion known as "welfare"? Somehow I think it would be far least costly.
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posted on
05/17/2008 10:52:29 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: Falcon28
To: Patrick1
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:07:37 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: Sans-Culotte
Mr. Vidal’s assessment is more likely to be an
Obama / Carter similarity.
Note once again liberals are inferring race riots if
Obama is not elected. This hangs on their shoulders.
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:27:20 PM PDT
by
ChiMark
To: MplsSteve
We survived ‘68-’69, I think we’ll get through this.
I just hope Obama does lose and lose big, because we cannot afford his brand of socialism and appeasement.
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:34:02 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
"the man is a drama queen"
Well you're right about the QUEEN part..... and the drama...... Vidal is an interesting writer sometimes but as a far leftist who thinks too much with his genitalia his judgement cannot be trusted on anything. Certainly his political analyses and prognostications are most unreliable....... any thing that promotes buggery and/or anti-American radicalism meets with his approval. That's about it.
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:37:51 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
To: Liberty Valance
Nice picture of Bill Buckley.
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:42:50 PM PDT
by
Mogollon
(Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama-Clinton, or McCain.)
To: tlb
There aren't too many blacks around here. On the coasts the black populations are mostly in the big cities and that is going to be a big problem for them if they decide to get really stupid. All the Army would have to do is evacuate the whites and Latinos and then turn off the electricity, gas, water, and stop all food and fuel shipments. Their little uprising wouldn't last very long. We could sit a few miles away with all of these things and never raise a sweat.
You see us card carrying armed rednecks from the country control all of those things. Their water either runs to them in pipes or canals over our lands. The electricity goes to them via lines and towers that pass across our properties. They do not raise food in those cities either. There is no capability to pump and produce gasoline or natural gas within the cities either. If we just starve them and let them go dry for a couple of months we could just stay on a perimeter and pick them off as they tried to sneak out.
There is a different population distribution in the south but there are plenty enough old rednecks down that way to take care of things. Any organized uprising by the blacks in this country would effectively reduce their free population by half when it is all over. A big bunch of them would be dead and another huge bunch would be locked up in a prison camp out in the middle of some desert. Yep, a black armed uprising would really be a smart move for them.
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posted on
05/17/2008 11:48:38 PM PDT
by
oldenuff2no
(Retired AB ranger and damn proud of it!!! I served to support our constitution and our way of life.)
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