Gore Vidal: We have a deranged president

[Syrinx]

(asked if Bush will be elected next year)

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.

*snip*

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/52/features-cooper.php

[Zomby Woof]

1. Vidal is a treasure

One of my very top icons in the political/literary realm.

He said back in the spring of 2000 that Bush won't be elected because "America isn't that stupid". Well, since Bush DID lose, and had the steal the election, he was right - although judging by this country's behavior since 9-11, maybe he wasn't right by much.

[proud patriot]

2. YAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

Well said Mr. Vidal

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Vidal just makes one mistake

there are soem of us who were not around for the New Deal
that undesrtand what this Republic once was..

Sad we are the immigrants who had to earn the right to call
ourselves American

[Room101]

4. I just read his book "The Last Empire"

Vidal is my favorite political writer!

[Cha]

5. Gore was for Gore in 2000!

I remember him being interviewed(don't know where or when) and he was grudgingly for Gore. I bet Vidal found Gore's speech on Sunday ...facinating! :kick:

"No. We are talking about despotism. I have read not only the first PATRIOT Act but also the second one, which has not yet been totally made public nor approved by Congress and to which there is already great resistance. An American citizen can be fingered as a terrorist, and with what proof? No proof. All you need is the word of the attorney general or maybe the president himself. You can then be locked up without access to a lawyer, and then tried by military tribunal and even executed. Or, in a brand-new wrinkle, you can be exiled, stripped of your citizenship and packed off to another place not even organized as a country — like Tierra del Fuego or some rock in the Pacific. All of this is in the USA PATRIOT Act. The Founding Fathers would have found this to be despotism in spades. And they would have hanged anybody who tried to get this through the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Hanged."

[KittyWampus]

6. Well Now That Puts It In A Nutshell!

The Democratic Candidate has to poll above 55% so that they can't claim too close to call on Election Day.