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Gore Vidal on Inaugural: The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard (Calls Troops 'Uneducated')
Democracy Now ^ | 1/25/05 | Gore Vidal

Posted on 01/27/2005 7:56:32 AM PST by gopwinsin04

Is is the most un-American speech I've ever heard a chief executive give to the United States, and only one was as gruesome and off key as this and that guy is Harry Truman who's being made into a hero because he fits the imperial mode.

That's just never existed in our history, that a president says 'Well, I think Im going to take over Costa Rica. There may be some terrorists down there some day. Oh, they arent there yet, but they are planning for it. And they've got bicarbonate of soda. Once you have that, you can build all kinds of biochemical weapons.'

That an American audience could sit reverently in front of their TV screens and not see the absurdity of what was being said: absolute proof of a couple of things that most thoughtful people feel: We have the worst educational system of any first world country.

We are shameful when we go abroad, because we know nothing. Just to watch the destruction of the archaeologists work at Babylon.

Babylon is the center of our culture. It was the center of our civilization, the center of mathmatics, of writing of everything. Nobody knows that, except it's a wicked city that must be destroyed.

Apparently our troops are allowed to go in and smash everything to bits. Why did they do it? Because they are bad boys and girls? No, they're totally uneducated.

And their officers are sometimes mean and bad, and allow them to have a romp, as they also had in the prisons, none of which we heard about in the last election. We were to busy with homosexual marriage and abortion, two riveting subjects.

War and peace, of course are not worth talking about. And civilization, God forbid that we ever committ ourselves to that.

(Excerpt) Read more at democracynow.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: antiwar; babylon; gorevidal; inauguraladdress; iraq; ragingqueen; vidal; w2
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Bicarbonate of soda? Poor Gore..
1 posted on 01/27/2005 7:56:32 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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I have gone well past giving a crap what Gore Vidal thinks on anything.

Bill Buckley should have kicked that boy's a$$ in '68.

2 posted on 01/27/2005 7:58:15 AM PST by Houmatt (Michael Schiavo should be the new Jimmy Hoffa.)
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Poor Gore..

Still the sore loser.

4 posted on 01/27/2005 7:59:25 AM PST by SmithL (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: gopwinsin04

Another lefty who can't stand the thought of freedom in the world.


5 posted on 01/27/2005 7:59:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: bullseye876

Vidal should talk, he's obsessed with homosexual marriage!


6 posted on 01/27/2005 7:59:51 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Jealous at not having been a contestant at the Abu Ghraib Games....


7 posted on 01/27/2005 7:59:59 AM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket???)
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To: gopwinsin04

This guy is always pissed off.

Have you ever heard one utterance from Vidal when he wasn't upset about something?

Good Lord, what does he do all day? Pull wings off of flies?

He should try a happy meal.


8 posted on 01/27/2005 8:00:16 AM PST by RexBeach
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absolute proof of a couple of things that most thoughtful people feel???????????


9 posted on 01/27/2005 8:00:21 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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This is really how the libs talk when they are behind closed doors.


10 posted on 01/27/2005 8:01:43 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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He should stick to making shampoo.


11 posted on 01/27/2005 8:03:28 AM PST by ProudVet77 (Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
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To: gopwinsin04

Babylon is the center of our culture. It was the center of our civilization, the center of mathmatics, of writing of everything. Nobody knows that, except it's a wicked city that must be destroyed.

Last I checked we didn't go to Iraq to destroy Babylon... IDIOT!


12 posted on 01/27/2005 8:03:46 AM PST by Bigturbowski
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To: gopwinsin04

When I went home for Christmas I had to listen to my sister's husband who is a trial lawyer and his friend, who is also a trial lawyer, go on and on. Whenever I brought up a point, they would want to change the subject and say they didn't really like talking politics. It wouldn't be two minutes before they started again.


13 posted on 01/27/2005 8:04:18 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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To: gopwinsin04
One of Susan Sardines Best friends, and doesn't he live in Europe somewhere, Hes another Sad Man, sorry, Gay.
14 posted on 01/27/2005 8:04:21 AM PST by lillybet (Your all right)
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To: gopwinsin04

He and his cousin Al are two of the dumbest people ever to be in the public eye.


15 posted on 01/27/2005 8:05:48 AM PST by lolhelp
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16 posted on 01/27/2005 8:07:02 AM PST by gopwinsin04
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To: Jay777

I think I feared Gore being El Presidente more than I did Kerry.


17 posted on 01/27/2005 8:07:24 AM PST by miliantnutcase
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To: gopwinsin04

What's wrong, Gore? The house boy ain't putting out?


18 posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:19 AM PST by silent_jonny (The Nightime Sniffling Sneezing Coughing Aching Stuffyhead Fever So You Can Freep Medicine)
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How do any of them survive this perpetual state of hysteria? How can a person even get through the day with that kind of mentality? Henny Penny.... the sky is falling!!!
19 posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:29 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus to his sons)
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To: gopwinsin04

Could be much worse -- he could have been discussing a Kerrey inaugural speech!


20 posted on 01/27/2005 8:11:57 AM PST by Rocko
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