READ THIS!!-Uncensored Gore- A great interview with Gore Vidal

[alapolitical]

"It's lucky for George W. Bush that he wasn’t born in an earlier time and somehow stumbled into America’s Constitutional Convention. A man with his views, so depreciative of democratic rule, would have certainly been quickly exiled from the freshly liberated United States by the gaggle of incensed Founders. So muses one of our most controversial social critics and prolific writers, Gore Vidal."

Perhaps the most honest and dead on commentary about the resident-in-chief and what the founding fathers would of though of him if they were around today. A must read for all.


http://www.laweekly.com/ink/printme.php?eid=48666

[liberalmuse]

1. That was very enjoyable.

Vidal captures the same sense of outrage so many of us feel.

[TennesseeWalker]

2. I read it, but I wouldn't say it was enjoyable.

I found it to be utterly chilling.

[pfitz59]

3. Most chilling truism!

"With each action Bush ever more enrages the Muslims. And there are a billion of them. And sooner or later they will have a Saladin who will pull them together, and they will come after us. And it won’t be pretty."

[LibertyorDeath]

4. Mr Vidal's analysis is brilliant to say the least...depressing & brilliant

Thanks alapolitical.

This is a keeper.

[dudeness]

5. thanks apolitical

vidal is amongst my all time favourite people...welcome to du..

[Vitruvius]

6. KICK

and alternate link, to Common Dreams formatted text http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1113-07.htm (from hippywife's thread).

[tom_paine]

7. kick -- this is terrific

[Eloriel]

8. On: Can Bush Win?

Q. Speaking of elections, is George W. Bush going to be re-elected next year?

A. No. At least if there is a fair election, an election that is not electronic. That would be dangerous. We don’t want an election without a paper trail. The makers of the voting machines say no one can look inside of them, because they would reveal trade secrets. What secrets? Isn’t their job to count votes? Or do they get secret messages from Mars? Is the cure for cancer inside the machines? I mean, come on. And all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?

So Bush will probably win if the country is covered with these balloting machines. He can’t lose.

[Liberal_Andy]

9. great find, alapolitical!

I think Gore's great. He don't take no shit from no body!

And welcome to DU! :hi: