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Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’
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| 9/29/2009
| Gore Vidal
Posted on 09/30/2009 6:38:32 AM PDT by stockpirate
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is rotting away and dont 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 Londons National Theatre he stood to deliver an anti-war speech to the audience.
(Excerpt) Read more at women.timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bho44; bhofascism; democrats; dictatorship; gorevidal; liberalfascism; obamafascism
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I know this was posted yesterday but it deserves another look.
To: stockpirate
Was that a statement of hope or derision?............
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:40:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The Zero has more airtime than Michael Jordan...........)
To: stockpirate
The Left is really ramping up the idea that revolution is coming and that dictatorship is a real possibility.
They control the white house. They control congress. The supreme court isn't lifting a finger to limit them. The Left tells me that a dicatorship is coming ... and they want me to believe that Glen Beck is the big threat???
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:41:14 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
To: stockpirate
“We’ll have a dictatorship”???? What does he mean WE? This imperious jerk doesn’t consider himself one of us.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:41:17 AM PDT
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: stockpirate
He is a sickening idiot puke.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:42:01 AM PDT
by
dforest
(Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
To: stockpirate
Sigh.
If only WFB had socked this queer in his GD face and he had stayed plastered.
To: stockpirate
Hey Gore, use the word ‘dictate’ in a sentence.(Ask Buckwheat).
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:43:51 AM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Aria
Gore Videl? One of us? He's a Buckley cousin for Heaven's sake.
No doubt he's more like Christopher than William, but his family starts out in the USA with a Spanish spy.
He's not looking forward to the dictatorship he sees coming (from the neofascist left in this country) but he's telling you straight up that Obama is weak ~ weakest President he's ever seen.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:44:02 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Red Badger
Derision. Vidal is the textbook example of an “educated idiot”. I had forgotten how dumb he is, and this rant reminded me.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:44:43 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: stockpirate
That article reads like the ramblings of a madman...
To: Aria
He said we’ll, that means him to if I read the right.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:46:33 AM PDT
by
stockpirate
("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
To: Constitution Day
“If only WFB had socked this queer in his GD face and he had stayed plastered.”
I was a freshman in high school and watching FL with my dad. We were both disappointed Buckley didn’t slug him ;-)
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:46:48 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: Carl LaFong
Hey Gore, use the word dictate in a sentence.(Ask Buckwheat).
ROTFLMAO!
To: Red Badger
“
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is rotting away and dont expect Barack Obama to save it. “ 0bama “save” nuthin’.
He has it the other way round hasn't he? It's 0bama that is determined to turn America into a dictatorship with his unconstitutional politburo made up of his radical, left wing extremist czars. America needs saving from 0bama's nascent dictatorship.
To: NMEwithin
“That article reads like the ramblings of a madman...”
Uh, he is.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:47:36 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: stockpirate
As usual, vidal is late to the party.
You stupid git, it’s happening NOW!
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:48:03 AM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Glenn Beck is a threat. He’s a threat to the liberal way of life and dictatorship. Glenn makes people think for a change and gets them to not just sit back and let things happen. The Democrats in Washington don’t want you to know what they are doing. There is a change coming.....it’ll happen in 2010 when the left is run out of office.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:48:29 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: stockpirate
Today religious mania has infected the political bloodstream and America has become corrosively isolationist, he says. Ask an American what they know about Sweden and theyd say They live well but theyre all alcoholics. In fact a Scandinavian system could have benefited us many times over. Instead, America has no intellectual class and is rotting away at a funereal pace. Well have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesnt realise how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is. Benjamin Franklin said that the system would fail because of the corruption of the people and that happened under Bush. What a senile old moronic fool...
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:48:55 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: stockpirate
I read the story.
The dude is a loon of the first degree.
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:49:08 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: stockpirate
and dont expect Barack Obama to save it.
LOL
He11 no...he’s busy kicking us down that road!
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posted on
09/30/2009 6:49:31 AM PDT
by
Adder
(Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09!)
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