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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 02:06 PM
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Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Important Election in My Lifetime’
Edited on Tue Nov-07-06 02:26 PM by SaveOurDemocracy

...............The stakes are so high!!!!



"This is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back...."




http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20061105_gore_vidal_the_most_important_election_in_my_lifetime/



We’re facing the most important election in my lifetime—which does not quite extend back to that of Abraham Lincoln, but it’s pretty close. There’ll be nothing more important in the voting line that one can foresee that will come our way while any of us is still hobbling around. This will determine whether we regain the republic which we have lost over the last five years.

The coup d’etat was so rapid that even I, who am ready for such things ... I thought, these people are going to make a grab for it. But I thought, my heavens, there’s still the courts.... Even a shameless Supreme Court is not going to back up the loss of habeas corpus....

So, my fellow countrymen, as I sit here, not yet at Gettysburg, I have a notion that this is the most important vote that you’ll probably ever cast. Because should this gang of thugs continue in the two houses of Congress, there isn’t any chance of getting the Constitution back....

This is the last chance, really, by getting some new chairpersons to head committees in the House ... to have a clean sweep, which, in normal times, if we’d ever enjoyed them, would have happened by now. Now it has got to happen, or welcome to the Third Reich.


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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 02:28 PM
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1. kicked

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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 02:31 PM
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2. Kick & Recommendation #1!
Edited on Tue Nov-07-06 02:34 PM by TheGoldenRule
Bravo Gore Vidal! :applause:
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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 02:43 PM
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3. I agree ...


Gore Vidal, historically, has been ultra-conservative ... and I've never been a fan of his politics. These statements from him are not to be easily dismissed ... he's been a activist political observer forever, it seems, and clearly sees past the smoke, mirrors and rhetoric.

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