Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’

Times online ^ | 9/29/2009 | Gore Vidal

[stockpirate]

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.

[stockpirate]

I know this was posted yesterday but it deserves another look.

[Red Badger]

Was that a statement of hope or derision?............

[ClearCase_guy]

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???

[Aria]

“We’ll have a dictatorship”???? What does he mean WE? This imperious jerk doesn’t consider himself one of us.

[dforest]

He is a sickening idiot puke.

[Constitution Day]

Sigh.

If only WFB had socked this queer in his GD face and he had stayed plastered.

[Carl LaFong]

Hey Gore, use the word ‘dictate’ in a sentence.(Ask Buckwheat).

[muawiyah]

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.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Derision. Vidal is the textbook example of an “educated idiot”. I had forgotten how dumb he is, and this rant reminded me.

[NMEwithin]

That article reads like the ramblings of a madman...

[stockpirate]

He said we’ll, that means him to if I read the right.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“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 ;-)

[Overtaxed Patriot]

Hey Gore, use the word ‘dictate’ in a sentence.(Ask Buckwheat).


ROTFLMAO!

[SmokingJoe]

“The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t 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.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“That article reads like the ramblings of a madman...”

Uh, he is.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

As usual, vidal is late to the party.

You stupid git, it’s happening NOW!

[RC2]

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.

[2banana]

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 they’d say ‘They live well but they’re 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. We’ll 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 doesn’t 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...

[PeteB570]

I read the story.

The dude is a loon of the first degree.

[Adder]

and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it.

LOL

He11 no...he’s busy kicking us down that road!