He's still alive and think he matters. Well, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Here's his take on Obama:
“[Obama's] incompetent. He will be defeated for re-election. It’s a pity because he’s the first intellectual president we’ve had in many years, but he can’t hack it. He’s not up to it. He’s overwhelmed.”
Well it's still a rather comfortable third reich so far, but yeah, it's bankrupt. They'll hand Social Security over to Wall Street, not just to enrich their investor friends but mostly just to fuck everyone over. The press and the idiots, especially the teabaggers, will all go along. When the rubes figure out that it doesn't reduce the national debt after-all but only takes away the benefits they paid into their whole lives, we'll be so fucked up it won't matter.
WRONG: Mr. Vidal, it was all over when bush nixon ford dulles & company blew JFK's brains all over the street took cover the govt and sent us to Vietnam we became war mongers. Eisenhower tried to warn us. Right: they copied Hitler's MO formstarting WW2 saying Poland attacked them.. They are not patriots but traitors
What a joke...This old chap is saying the important election in his lifetime is to vote in Al Gore talk about a guy who is the biggest lier. Now that Obama his party line is in office. They ram down socialist healthcare and now the TSA is under the order of Obama. Is groping and has totally taken away our rights. And now the FCC under Obama has now also taken away the freedom of the internet. Wake up the party of the donkey...wake up... or just continue and well end up like the Brave new world..
@erikj Wait... taken away the freedom of the internet? What's that even mean? Are you referring to net neutrality? If you are, then you clearly have no idea what it means.
WAKE UP YANKS!!! your obscene "military industrial complex" with it's control of the House of Reps.@ the mainstream media, has corrupted your whole way of life. Your "American Dream"? is about to become a nightmare. you should read more of Mr Gore's prophetic words, this Great man tell's it as it is
I can only agree with the "conspiracy of the stupid" comment. I gave up doing any political reporting in 1990 after trying for years to get reports on the East Bloc to American editors. They were interested only in what their own hallucinations had to say -- and the corporate bosses. I started reporting on things about dogs and other frivolousness... that worked well, I could feed my family.
Wow, a woman getting her sentence commuted. Gee that never happens (pffff). But seriously, I don't know this story, why was she facing 39 years in prision? Some new bullshit under the Patriot Act? Was she representing a convicted terrorist or something--it sounded like a muslim name (I'm just making my best guesses because I don't know about this case).
Electing presidents to manage wage slavery for a tiny elite can never be the solution to a political economy of market mechanism. Its the principles for a cooperation for our collective well being in harmony with our enviornment that can alter the socio-economic modality. Capitalism is an impostion of minority for minority interest across the world. American patriotism and flag waving is keeping us in the dead-end viciousness of a parasitic system.
Though I am generally on Vidal's side of the issues, he is a bit paranoid despite his insight. Such people are necessary but it does diminish his credibility somewhat.
If you think so, perhaps you haven't seen his myriad other videos. He was always highly attuned to reality (even if it was hidden to the rest of us), and very mostly exactly correct. In some cases prescient by decades. eg. Google Youtube Gore Vidal 1995 Patt Morrison, for today's news from 1995.
the military does have its "ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns" but its unfair to throw all of us in that category. to do so would be ignorant and uneducated
The millitary are hired thugs working for the government to do their dirty work , the same way a mafia don will have his goons. Stop kidding yourself.
Maybe the military higher ups, but not an overwhelming number of our soldiers. I'm with you though - but I think it's important to specify that it's the military elite / higher up ranks (I don't know all the damn jargon)
How ironic that you have a right as an american to say such ignoant things because those "ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns" paid for it with their blood.
Its only ironic if you look at it from an over simplified perspective and imagine that the American government hasn't mostly taken away some rights to free speech and privacy over the last decade. Really what you're saying is the opposite of what you're meaning is.... they actually helped make it harder for me to say this/easier for me to be dragged away for it. Nice use of emotion though.
Dude no, come on now! It's not a matter of taking guns. Its a matter of getting people (or hicks, rednecks, etc) to understand that the 2nd Amendment is not the most important one. Guns should be allowed, but "those people" need to be educated that there is more too life then the cold steel from your cold dead fingertips.
You need to learn that it's not up to you to determine which ammendment is the most important one.
People have a 1st amm right, a 2nd and so on. Who the hell are you to prioritize for others?
Guns should be "allowed"? By whom? Constitutional rights are not "allowed". They are inherent to the American people. Nobody has the right to take them, so there is no "allowed" when it comes to constitutional rights and there is no lecturing. There is only keep your damn hands off of them.
Besides, you need the dictionary; I made no error in diction. You look-up "Whinny" and you will then also know the definition. And, no, we are not talking about "Whinny the Pooh." I think you have confused "Whinny" with "Whiny." Had I wished to use that word, I would have used a different inflected form, "whining." Nice try to youtube-police me. Ha! I
ok just everyone stop using political labelling to pretend you guys know anything about politics-yes the video was true and disturbing but shut up with your ww2 cold war old man on a porch bullsh*t!
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So, as an independent, I'm interesting in learning if "Democrates" are already planning to blame racism or the voting machines if McCain wins?
Because if you keep blamming these things and ignore the parts within your own party that need to be fixed in order to win over the majority, the democratic party will never have long term control.
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Well said! Every time there's a close election and one side wins the other side wants to say oh there was fraud, it wa voting machine errors, it was rigged, people we re disenfracnhised and yet when the same result favors THIER side all of a sudden eveyrthing works fine. Bush won in 2004 fair and square and got 3 MILLION more votes than KErry even if Ohio was close. This idea of theft is a total farce.
Why is it that for the most part Americans who disagree turn to insults and vulgar phrases and cries of "commie"? It is so pathetic. If you have a point, then make it coherently with sound grammar and at least a degree of intellectual rigour.
calling someone a "commie" or stating "i am not a neocon" doesn't preclude you from being labeled as stupid. while also serving as a RED FLAG for a host of other shit.
It's no longer about being Republican or Democrat...what are the candidates views on the issues. Party is no longer an issue. Look at what happened with the democrats and the war, all those promises...and what happened? Did they make good on their promises? We have a Republican that's running, Dr. Ron Paul, who is going to end that war...and he's a Republican...the party lines have been blurred.
So sad that an Educated man like Vidal believes for one moment that a democrat congress would restore the Republic and Constitution. We are a fascist socialist collective. A child of 9 (not educated in the USA of course) whom can read the constitution, knows we are not a republic or free society. So sad the People are just as naive as Vidal. No democrat or republican congress gives a flying shit about you or the constitution...silly rabbit
I feel sorry for the 1/2 of us Americans who knew better (re: stupid Bush) and will have to go down with the rest of the American ship now. I especially feel bad that we have to live with than other 1/2 ... they're so brainwashed and unwise.
If Henry A. Wallace had been elected President and John F. Kennedy had not been killed by the dark forces that now control the country, we would be living in a different world. I'm afraid there is no hope. What the dark forces don't realize is that they also will be caught up in the bloodshed to come.
Really? He stoped Curtis LeMay and other military crazies who WANTED war from nuking Russia; he was going to pull OUT of VietNam; he was going to smash the CIA; he was going to crush the Federal Reserve. He brought about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Your pitiful attempt at being superior is so transparentl you are obviously a neo-con or a Bush apologist.
Here is a list of the TRUE war-mongers who served as President of the U.S.: James K. Polk; Abraham Lincoln; William McKinley; Woodrow Wilson; Franklin Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard M. Nixon; and George W. Bush. Many of these should have been tried as war criminals and are responsible for the deaths of untold millions.
Hey I've got a little addendum to your list: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Bush I, and Clinton. Oh hey wait that's all of them! Only one of them had the balls to decry the military-industrial complex and only then when he was out of politics. If they weren't war-mongers they wouldn't get elected. Also, there'd be recessions because of how much the US economy is geared towards war. Murder is money god bless Amerikkka.
Follow this aging quack if you like, but know that he was a member of the America First Committee in the 40's (opposed to America's entry into WWII) and an apologist for Timothy McVeigh. Check it out!
i just finished watching his 1968 interview about bobbie kennedy. his views haven't changed since then. his views contain much doom and gloom. they always have and one suspects they always will. i lift my martini to you, vidal. cheers to you and your ego.
Gore Vidal is truly as dumb as a human being can get. You can't invoke Hitler and the Third Reich every time you lose an election, which in his case is very often. Face it for once you old dumb ass, the country doesn't think like you and doesn't want anything to do with you ! Now go croak you hideous fossil.
And WHO exactly are you, the one who wishes death upon those who disagree with him? I suspect that such thinking will sooner or later lead to your own undoing. Obviously, you have no respect for others
and their opinions. I fear that someday you will be hoisted on your own petard. What a shame, although I don't personally endorse such an end for you.
Other than a hustle and tool of control, most caucasians have never had a practical interest in practicing what they push on others.
How many slaves did JESUS have? How many times did JESUS wage a murderous assault on someone not part of their particular group? When did JESUS and the dicsiples rape women and men?
amerikkkas so called christian caucasoid population carried out all these atrocities and you are brain dead to read the BIBLE and know truth for yourself
GORE VIDAL'S EGO IS "DA BOMB". if you follow the line of his interviews over the years, he hasn't changed his views a modicum. just because he is loquacious about his views doesn't mean they are correct. if you want views that will trully stretch your mind, try reading AL JAZEERA and other similar types of ideas. ELVIS STILL LIVES AND VIDAL = THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Vidal does not overstate the matter. Please read the Military Comissions Act, which by itself redefines the US as a dictatorship. This is now the law of our land and is not an academic matter. Call your local paper and find that the editor has never heard of the MCA.
Vidal really "gets it". The idiocy of today's Americans must drive him crazy. As far as those questioning the UN, Google United Nations Accomplishments. The superpowers have kept it weak (re: Darfur) but we citizens can work toward it's empowerment. I sure don't want THIS country ruling the world, with our love of violence and power.
I'm not so certain that people are stupid that always seems to be the default of someone who has given up on being able to get to the truth. I think it is more accurate to say that people are self absorbed to the point that they are willing to believe what the controlling owners of the media tell them to believe and finding comfort in that they vote with their heads in the ground and someone elses hand on lever.
I apologize but I don't know if you meant what you said about "educating the massess on the internet where the evil authorities don't exist." Were you being sarcastic because the evil authorities are all over the internet. Even if they can't do anything about descent they are monitoring us. Especially those on the left.
The Zionists in AIPAC, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve rule over America. Unless these groups are dismantled and driven from power, the American people will never be free, and the world will be doomed to destruction.
Well, I guess now we all live in hell since Bush is still around. When I go to the mall or out, oh boy, it's hell out there. It's a police state just like the far-left scared me into thinking.
This man is so pathetic, I ought to feel sorry for him. This fossilized remnant of the 60s, time has passed him by and he cannot understand why America has rejected him and his ideas. So he sits there agonizing and blaming everyone and everything else- from "stolen" elections, to faulty ballot to "tampered voting machines". How utterly pathetic.
Oh, what's the matter? It's as if you lost an important election in November or something. Wait a minute! You did ah! Poor ugly baby lost the election. Maybe if you spent less time fucking children and more time voting you might just be able to beat us. But that's not going to happen because the temptation to molest young boys is too great for you to resist. You have no Idea what that has done to your party and we will use it every chance we get. Can you say mass mailings? I thought you could.
You "won" the election(barely) by running the most conservative candidates you could find, along with relentless assault on the administration from the DriveBy media and by managing to persuade just enough Americans who rely only on nightly network news. Liberals only win elections when they pretend not to be liberals. Did you run on any issues ? Oh yes - surrendering in Iraq, cutting off funding, and minimum wage increase- none of which you have the guts or the votes to follow through on.
You can run all the candidates you want but the right wing is finished. You broke the back of the republican party and now God is making you pay for it. By the way the moderates are the ones who will take power not the right wing. The latest polling shows that Americans do not trust the right wing. So, now you will pretend to be a moderate which is exactly where we want you.
We conservatives despise moderates, just like we despise people like you. Moderates are liberals in disguise, liberals who are afraid to call themselves liberals. Moderates stand for NOTHING. They do not believe in ANYthing. They sit around and wait for a consensus to form, and then join the majority. Goodbye, idiot.
Pussy fucking child molesting Christ traitor! You will stand before God and be judged you filfthy America hating vagina. You and your children will burn! Why do you hate America? Why do you hate Jesus? You can't answer that because your a pathetic limp dick pussy. Your wife is whore for having you. I hope if there is ever a civil war that I might have the pleasure of dispatching you. Run! pussy Run! God, this man hasn't the fucking balls of a real conservative. Can you sill get it up?
Brilliant! You see what happens to the fetus when it doesn't get enough oxygen. You fucking dumb ass! I hope you die! I wan't you dead you America hating piece of garbage. Die! Die! Die! Get out of my country you lard ass failed abortion!
Get your ass on a boat to the middle east you waist of sperm. I can't wait to gut like a pig when the civil war comes you filfthy America hating piece of garbage. It's going to be so much fun watching you suffer while your personal property is taken away and given to some one more deserving. You're no even human to me you gutless fart hole. Die! Go to the middle east if you don't like America!
God you're tedious. You're a cancer on this great nation. America suffers slime like yourself, it's a free country. Do us all a favor and gut yourself. It's 'waste", not "waist" sperm gurgler. I don't care what I am to you, you mean less to me than dog shit on my shoe.
I'm glad that dog shit means something to you it's a pitty the shit doesn't feel the same way. It probably would be beneath it's dignity even if it was imbued with consciousness and a need for companionship. Your spelling is beautiful. Your intellect...negligible.
Stimry is my new nickname for you. You know, stimulus response. Don't bother replying you're not up to the challenge. It's too easy to pick on old senile women like you.
We have already won the propaganda war. You just don't realize it. Bush has disgraced himself and when the economy falls, and it will, he will be blamed for it. Every knee shall bow every tongue confess. The public has gotten smarter. Smarter than you ever estimated. Your pride and child sodomy is your down fall. Eat garbage and die for all I care. I hope you die while trying to bomb an abortion clinic. You filfthy Christ hater.
Ha! Ha! Ha! poor limp dick abortion clinic bomber can't win a simple election. What happened that day did the man at the agency promise you a boy under 9 years old? I suppose you just can't help yourself. Too bad Christ hater! Every knee shall bow every tongue confess.
first its the terrorists then the immigrants then everyone else but the rich on your way to the poorhouse. thank god i dont live in the american fascist state
Thanks for not voting in November. The fact that the right wing lost so badly can't be good propaganda for you. Keep hating America as you probably will and blaspheme God as often as possibly by PRETENDING to believe in him. You probably think It's ok to fuck little boys because your saved by the blood of the lamb don't you? Well it does'nt work that way you have to really believe and sin no more.
There is no illuminati. The left has been naive to think that they could defeat the right with logic and reason. Pure Machiavelianism is the only way to defeat the right. Where is our Rush Limbaugh? Maybe it's Bill Maher but then again it could be John Stewart. But I digress. I hope we have a mass mailing effort to defeat them because they send out gay pornographic images to make their point. How do you fight that? Pornographic images of children? Start thinking people get your shit together.
There will never be one. You people have tried over and over again and each time you have crashed and burnt and embarrassed yourselves. You know why ? Among other reasons, Liberalism is a FAILURE. It has utterly failed to achieve anything and America has rejected it. Its time has gone.
Vidal Gore, I am an expert analyst on virtue, greatness and wisdom. You poses all three. And I hope the sons and daughters of the USA SEE your clearity, on the priceless value of the Republic and it's mechanisms to protect from all it's preditors.
CLICK ON MY NAME to learn how to take action for an IMPEACHMENT. We have to save this Republic, and IMEAPCHING Bush is imperative to this. Click on "Impeachment 2007"
The Republicans control a vast share of the media due to their powerful influence and the Diebolt electronic voting machine are owned by a repuplican friendly company. I hope the Demoocrates and the 2008 Democrate President make a major clean up in all this quadmire
Gore Vidal at his age still envelopes a vibrant uncanny intuition. A keen common sense few learned possess in this day and age.
His few words flow like books of knowledge. A gift many young people like me hope to inherit even a spec of. Your wisdom and good grace should be heeded. Thankyou Gore for being a compassionate teacher for the next generation.
A warning cry to the few who still listen. Maybe one will carry the torch to save the Republic.
2 boring jews talking, and 1 of them wants to get power. Like it'll be any difference with democrats ruling in US.. Both republicans & democrats are stinking moshe-supremacy-politicians anyway..
How can I/we thank you. Mr Vidal; a lifetime of insight, thought provoking humor, and an American Statesman personafied when so few are worthy of such accolades.
Hmm, maybe you could adopt a system like Canadian socialised healthcare; free for everyone, and funded by taxation. We consider it a human right, but maybe you think that's a pinko statement?
well, let's examine Canada's system. The taxation you speak of is ungodly, the Canadian tax bourdon is unimaginable. The tax they pay on gas alone would make your American (give me but please don't overtax me) head spin. Try paying almost $7 a gallon next time there's a spike in the market.
Now lets talk about what those taxes get you. Try mediocre med care, endless waiting periods for vital surgery and an unspeakably expensive "shadow market" of doctors in private practice who stay in business because the system doesn't work. Research before you spout off.
And you're getting those figures from where? Let's be real here, even if you have a source I'm sure it was a made up number put out by Castro, we all know HE can be trusted right? I guess that's why Cubans are making rafts to leave that paradise.
You are so full of your greed, your comments glow.
Try UN stats report, thats were I read it. Also Cuba has the lowest pasients/doctor ratios, and is a leading contributor in research breakthroughs in medicine, that also contribute to the US healthcare through US subsiduries in other countries that have not blockaded trade with Cuba, like Canada, Germany, Swiss, France, UK, and so on. My doctor graduates per capita graduate in Cuba too.
That's right you Dominianist door-to-door dillusionist bible thumper, $7 dollars a gallon and soon to be $21 and $64 and you will be driving all the way to Alberta to get your oil fix, you oil junky.
There is not one DNA strand in your whole being that posses a common sense marker. So go sell crazy somewhere else, we are not buying here.
Funny how you mentioned gas prices when socialist EEuropean countries and Canada are paying much more than we are for oil due to their stupid tax system, and I like how you make up lies about the Cuban government when my family (part of whom are Cuban my father is Cuban) who lived in Cuba say people like you are full of shit.
I don't make up lies of the Cuban government. All my sources are from the UN, medical professionals from Canada which know personaly that have studied, researched and done bussiness in Cuba. So please cut it out with your propaganda chit chat.
The UN is a flawed organization whose statistics are often skewed to favor socialist nations, it is exceedingly anti-American, anti-Israeli, and most people with half a brain do not trust them. I won't trust an org. that puts China, and Iran on the counsel for human rights.
UN is not a totaly flawed org. And the concept of the UN is the future and only hope for the World, to keep the peace and balance on Earth. The problem is the nations and private/corporate interests who try to abuse it.
Would you prefer a polarized world? Or a Nazi/Theocratic like regime to have hegemony world wide? I think NOT. Freedom is the most precious thing in the world and people put their lives on the line for it. But beware of those who try to convince or sway you of false freedom for their own personal profitiering. Your life for their personal "precious" gain.
The UN promotes peace? Right, that's why they've stopped the killings in Darfur, why they did so well to stop violence in Rwanda, and are doing a bang up job with China's hold on Tibet. I don't believe in a useless org. that only serves to strip us of our sovreignty.
The UN is only as good as it's supposed honest brokers, that includes the USA, Israel and China.
But I see were your going with this, the only solution for YOU would be to engage in a full scale NUCLEAR confritation, so that would trigger a world wide extinction of something called life. You'd think this would promote you to the next level of the game called salvation,...
I believe in economic freedom and a strong defense and national sovreignty and neither of us will change each other's mind. I will not change because I'm too smart, and you won't because you're too stupid so I won't be answering more of your stupid posts filled with your propaganda. The successes of such thinking are wonderful, like the Soviets, the Cubans and the N. Koreans. You're a filth.
Your mind is fast becoming just a fad. Part of a blip on the socio-economic time scale of the history of humankind. You think the world is a bottumless well of resources for your greedy taking. To smart? Your in trouble now, go see a specialist. You fear what you can not understand, or what others tell you to fear. Start thinking for yourself.
I love this one too. I KNOW that resources are not infinite, it's socialists who believe that they are. Soc. want finite goods to meet infinite wants, yet soc. gov's are not good at producing anything. You think everyone has a right to a good home, enough food and a decent job with decent pay whether they work for it or not, when you can't cover that you look to the haves and in reality they have a right (in your eyes) to MY food, MY home and MY job, in the real world, that's called theft.
You have much to learn. Why are you living in the US then? Afghanistan "was" a perfect egsample of what happens when there is no government that can not produce anything. Everyone looking out for #1, will shoot you for your boots. Moronic Taliban was with their Theiocratic loonacy, & a perfect haven for that PIECE OF SHIT OSAMA & AND HIS BAND OF COWARDS.
I said SOCIALIST gov. are bad at producing and we all know that private industry is A LOT better at producing than gov. The Taliban WAS a gov. and they had a VERY low crime rate b/c they would kill you if you stole or murdered so no, no one was being shot over botts you idiot, the Taliban is a perfect EXAMPLE (correct your spelling) of why gov. being in charge of everything is bad.
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SpikeySMI 1 month ago
He's still alive and think he matters. Well, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Here's his take on Obama:
“[Obama's] incompetent. He will be defeated for re-election. It’s a pity because he’s the first intellectual president we’ve had in many years, but he can’t hack it. He’s not up to it. He’s overwhelmed.”
One can only hope he's correct.
danhanover1 2 months ago
We are fucked unless we overthrow the criminals in the Pentagon and Washington and CIA and expose all their doings. 9/11 was an inside job.
undeadpresident 4 months ago
Gore Vidal is still on a point, no doubt... true American hero? I don't see how he could be classified as an American. Dennis Kucinich??????
gfm2011 5 months ago
Well it's still a rather comfortable third reich so far, but yeah, it's bankrupt. They'll hand Social Security over to Wall Street, not just to enrich their investor friends but mostly just to fuck everyone over. The press and the idiots, especially the teabaggers, will all go along. When the rubes figure out that it doesn't reduce the national debt after-all but only takes away the benefits they paid into their whole lives, we'll be so fucked up it won't matter.
hamnose 7 months ago
WRONG: Mr. Vidal, it was all over when bush nixon ford dulles & company blew JFK's brains all over the street took cover the govt and sent us to Vietnam we became war mongers. Eisenhower tried to warn us. Right: they copied Hitler's MO formstarting WW2 saying Poland attacked them.. They are not patriots but traitors
MrBrianchristopher 8 months ago
What a joke...This old chap is saying the important election in his lifetime is to vote in Al Gore talk about a guy who is the biggest lier. Now that Obama his party line is in office. They ram down socialist healthcare and now the TSA is under the order of Obama. Is groping and has totally taken away our rights. And now the FCC under Obama has now also taken away the freedom of the internet. Wake up the party of the donkey...wake up... or just continue and well end up like the Brave new world..
erikj 1 year ago
@erikj Wait... taken away the freedom of the internet? What's that even mean? Are you referring to net neutrality? If you are, then you clearly have no idea what it means.
jazzgtrplayer 9 months ago
WAKE UP YANKS!!! your obscene "military industrial complex" with it's control of the House of Reps.@ the mainstream media, has corrupted your whole way of life. Your "American Dream"? is about to become a nightmare. you should read more of Mr Gore's prophetic words, this Great man tell's it as it is
exning1 1 year ago
@exning1 He has been prophetic.
hamnose 7 months ago 3
I can only agree with the "conspiracy of the stupid" comment. I gave up doing any political reporting in 1990 after trying for years to get reports on the East Bloc to American editors. They were interested only in what their own hallucinations had to say -- and the corporate bosses. I started reporting on things about dogs and other frivolousness... that worked well, I could feed my family.
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gamesbok 10 months ago
Wow, a woman getting her sentence commuted. Gee that never happens (pffff). But seriously, I don't know this story, why was she facing 39 years in prision? Some new bullshit under the Patriot Act? Was she representing a convicted terrorist or something--it sounded like a muslim name (I'm just making my best guesses because I don't know about this case).
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
Electing presidents to manage wage slavery for a tiny elite can never be the solution to a political economy of market mechanism. Its the principles for a cooperation for our collective well being in harmony with our enviornment that can alter the socio-economic modality. Capitalism is an impostion of minority for minority interest across the world. American patriotism and flag waving is keeping us in the dead-end viciousness of a parasitic system.
arzoyan 1 year ago 3
Vidal is knowlegable and smart but his faith in ballot-box duocracy seems pretty naive.
flyhead2 2 years ago
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Nothing worse than an aging Commie.
TuskAmerica 2 years ago
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Fuck Gore Vidal.
genericdefault 3 years ago
Gore Vidal confirmes what most people know: these are dark times.
Someone wnats to achieve power without popular resolution.
Who?
Burocrats.
adevezar 3 years ago
You misspelled Bureaucrats.
genericdefault 3 years ago 2
Nature can't spell.
adevezar 3 years ago
men like Gore Vidal and Dennis Kucinich are the true American heroes
kellygirl328 3 years ago 25
@kellygirl328 What planet are you on?
Gore Vidal was always the hero of anti Americanism , .....a communist homosexual/pedophile
2002lees 5 months ago
Though I am generally on Vidal's side of the issues, he is a bit paranoid despite his insight. Such people are necessary but it does diminish his credibility somewhat.
auerstadt06 3 years ago
If you think so, perhaps you haven't seen his myriad other videos. He was always highly attuned to reality (even if it was hidden to the rest of us), and very mostly exactly correct. In some cases prescient by decades. eg. Google Youtube Gore Vidal 1995 Patt Morrison, for today's news from 1995.
PSmithFortyTwo 3 years ago
The 6th Ammendment: The Right to a speedy, public trial by jury in the state and district where the accused offense occurred.
Sorry Americans, this constitutional right is gone. The Homeland Security & Patriot Act took it in the name of protecting freedom.
Next the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, free speech, and gun rights.
ThimJam 3 years ago 4
i say take the guns rights, only hicks want guns and we could all do without ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns
Hmarkas 2 years ago 3
that's the only people that will have them if you make them illegal.
"ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns"
=
the military.
duketronix 2 years ago 5
the military does have its "ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns" but its unfair to throw all of us in that category. to do so would be ignorant and uneducated
duitscher1 2 years ago 3
Agreed. It is unfortunate that the imagery is applicable at all though.
:(
duketronix 2 years ago
@duitscher1
The millitary are hired thugs working for the government to do their dirty work , the same way a mafia don will have his goons. Stop kidding yourself.
karl198 1 year ago
@karl198
Maybe the military higher ups, but not an overwhelming number of our soldiers. I'm with you though - but I think it's important to specify that it's the military elite / higher up ranks (I don't know all the damn jargon)
;)
mit26chell 1 year ago
How ironic that you have a right as an american to say such ignoant things because those "ignorant uneducated rednecks with guns" paid for it with their blood.
mtemple72 2 years ago
No they paid for the oil I drive my car with.
Its only ironic if you look at it from an over simplified perspective and imagine that the American government hasn't mostly taken away some rights to free speech and privacy over the last decade. Really what you're saying is the opposite of what you're meaning is.... they actually helped make it harder for me to say this/easier for me to be dragged away for it. Nice use of emotion though.
duketronix 2 years ago
Dude no, come on now! It's not a matter of taking guns. Its a matter of getting people (or hicks, rednecks, etc) to understand that the 2nd Amendment is not the most important one. Guns should be allowed, but "those people" need to be educated that there is more too life then the cold steel from your cold dead fingertips.
DaHonestAbe 2 years ago
@DaHonestAbe
You need to learn that it's not up to you to determine which ammendment is the most important one.
People have a 1st amm right, a 2nd and so on. Who the hell are you to prioritize for others?
Guns should be "allowed"? By whom? Constitutional rights are not "allowed". They are inherent to the American people. Nobody has the right to take them, so there is no "allowed" when it comes to constitutional rights and there is no lecturing. There is only keep your damn hands off of them.
tridentmovies 1 year ago
@tridentmovies Fair enough....
DaHonestAbe 1 year ago
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1coolascucumber1 3 years ago
Nicely stated! If you feel he is wrong then go debate him.
nocodad123 3 years ago 4
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cocozumbo 3 years ago
call me
longislandsurfer 3 years ago
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Gore Vidal has completely lost his mind
meiitbe 3 years ago
Gore Vidal is still on point.
dschvld 3 years ago 23
LOL.."conspiracy of the stupid"
bowlerdude 3 years ago
To go with the neo-conservative nuts.
bamadawgsc 3 years ago
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What a couple of whinny liberal fruits.
chompychomps 3 years ago
"Whinny" liberal fruits?
And you're a half-witted conservative.
Invest in a dictionary before you go a-hunting-and-pecking on the 'Net.
acolyte12 3 years ago 8
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Careful, I'll sock you and you'll stay plastered!
chompychomps 3 years ago
Besides, you need the dictionary; I made no error in diction. You look-up "Whinny" and you will then also know the definition. And, no, we are not talking about "Whinny the Pooh." I think you have confused "Whinny" with "Whiny." Had I wished to use that word, I would have used a different inflected form, "whining." Nice try to youtube-police me. Ha! I
chompychomps 3 years ago 4
ok just everyone stop using political labelling to pretend you guys know anything about politics-yes the video was true and disturbing but shut up with your ww2 cold war old man on a porch bullsh*t!
therhapsodyoftuli 3 years ago
interesting
hate420breed 3 years ago
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So, as an independent, I'm interesting in learning if "Democrates" are already planning to blame racism or the voting machines if McCain wins?
Because if you keep blamming these things and ignore the parts within your own party that need to be fixed in order to win over the majority, the democratic party will never have long term control.
Sleepensheep 3 years ago
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Well said! Every time there's a close election and one side wins the other side wants to say oh there was fraud, it wa voting machine errors, it was rigged, people we re disenfracnhised and yet when the same result favors THIER side all of a sudden eveyrthing works fine. Bush won in 2004 fair and square and got 3 MILLION more votes than KErry even if Ohio was close. This idea of theft is a total farce.
RJY4356 3 years ago
Why is it that for the most part Americans who disagree turn to insults and vulgar phrases and cries of "commie"? It is so pathetic. If you have a point, then make it coherently with sound grammar and at least a degree of intellectual rigour.
Pinnertop 3 years ago
That's what happens when you have a generation educated at Bill O'reilly college.
PowerAndPerception 3 years ago 4
preface Culture Of Critique
Nationsnotregimes 3 years ago
So calling smone a crypto nazi is acceptable? tell Gore that when he was in "debate" with J Buckley. What an "intellectual " Gore is
wasabimanic 3 years ago
calling someone a "commie" or stating "i am not a neocon" doesn't preclude you from being labeled as stupid. while also serving as a RED FLAG for a host of other shit.
allfury1 3 years ago
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Gore Vidal is a commie queer. Thankfully so are his fans, so they have no children. YAY
Also, I am not a Neocon, so you can't bash me for that you limp wristed perverts. So fuck off
1811812 3 years ago
When people display such anger, they are most times supressing their own desires.
bullmet1 3 years ago 5
You're just ignorant.
HimmuraTube 3 years ago
You really "Love" old Adolf though don't you??
Combat 18 oh for that lovely day in Austria in
1888,Alois was over the Moon when little Adolf
took his first breath of stinking Jewish Air
RIGHT?
flanneryged 3 years ago
It's no longer about being Republican or Democrat...what are the candidates views on the issues. Party is no longer an issue. Look at what happened with the democrats and the war, all those promises...and what happened? Did they make good on their promises? We have a Republican that's running, Dr. Ron Paul, who is going to end that war...and he's a Republican...the party lines have been blurred.
principles101 4 years ago
So sad that an Educated man like Vidal believes for one moment that a democrat congress would restore the Republic and Constitution. We are a fascist socialist collective. A child of 9 (not educated in the USA of course) whom can read the constitution, knows we are not a republic or free society. So sad the People are just as naive as Vidal. No democrat or republican congress gives a flying shit about you or the constitution...silly rabbit
putittogether 4 years ago
Well said putittogether. Well said.
clutch1245 3 years ago
Gore Vidal is cool and all (a bit conservative for my tastes), but he looks like a pile of mashed potatoes here. I hope he's doing all right.
BrainSense 4 years ago
I feel sorry for the 1/2 of us Americans who knew better (re: stupid Bush) and will have to go down with the rest of the American ship now. I especially feel bad that we have to live with than other 1/2 ... they're so brainwashed and unwise.
tubetrekker30 4 years ago 2
If Henry A. Wallace had been elected President and John F. Kennedy had not been killed by the dark forces that now control the country, we would be living in a different world. I'm afraid there is no hope. What the dark forces don't realize is that they also will be caught up in the bloodshed to come.
billyguns2 4 years ago
::yawn:: JFK was a war-monger.
Xenu 4 years ago
Really? He stoped Curtis LeMay and other military crazies who WANTED war from nuking Russia; he was going to pull OUT of VietNam; he was going to smash the CIA; he was going to crush the Federal Reserve. He brought about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Your pitiful attempt at being superior is so transparentl you are obviously a neo-con or a Bush apologist.
billyguns2 4 years ago
Here is a list of the TRUE war-mongers who served as President of the U.S.: James K. Polk; Abraham Lincoln; William McKinley; Woodrow Wilson; Franklin Roosevelt; Harry Truman; Lyndon B. Johnson; Richard M. Nixon; and George W. Bush. Many of these should have been tried as war criminals and are responsible for the deaths of untold millions.
billyguns2 4 years ago
Is a "yawn" all you have to contribute to the betterment of the human race or to a civilized discourse?
billyguns2 4 years ago
Hey I've got a little addendum to your list: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, Carter, Bush I, and Clinton. Oh hey wait that's all of them! Only one of them had the balls to decry the military-industrial complex and only then when he was out of politics. If they weren't war-mongers they wouldn't get elected. Also, there'd be recessions because of how much the US economy is geared towards war. Murder is money god bless Amerikkka.
BrainSense 4 years ago
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Follow this aging quack if you like, but know that he was a member of the America First Committee in the 40's (opposed to America's entry into WWII) and an apologist for Timothy McVeigh. Check it out!
turfclub9 4 years ago
What he meant to say was, "Welcome to the Fourth Reich".
jhr459 4 years ago
Gore Vidal illustrates how the american people are dumbed down by the crooked american government.
Most americans have government as MIND but not an independent thought process. Taught WHAT to think but not HOW to think independently
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
Very few human creatures know how to think independently
homeborn 4 years ago
Yes, you are correct: most human beings can only react, parrot what they've been told, and then follow like sheep to their doom. America is lost.
billyguns2 4 years ago
i just finished watching his 1968 interview about bobbie kennedy. his views haven't changed since then. his views contain much doom and gloom. they always have and one suspects they always will. i lift my martini to you, vidal. cheers to you and your ego.
ericsweetboy 4 years ago
Your ignorance isnt excuse for debate. Gore Vidal knows what he is talking about and you are just a mindless establishment stooge.
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
Great trouble is on its way to the human world
Take ur head out of the sand
homeborn 4 years ago
America is a doomed and gloomy nation so why shouldn't someone bear true witness (tell the truth) regarding it.
You have priority issues.
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
Gore Vidal is truly as dumb as a human being can get. You can't invoke Hitler and the Third Reich every time you lose an election, which in his case is very often. Face it for once you old dumb ass, the country doesn't think like you and doesn't want anything to do with you ! Now go croak you hideous fossil.
AriesLudzik 4 years ago
And WHO exactly are you, the one who wishes death upon those who disagree with him? I suspect that such thinking will sooner or later lead to your own undoing. Obviously, you have no respect for others
and their opinions. I fear that someday you will be hoisted on your own petard. What a shame, although I don't personally endorse such an end for you.
davideley 4 years ago
The only dummy is the one who has yet to study and bear true witness as Gore Vidal has done.
GORE VIDAL IS DA BOMB FOLKS. Get a real education
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
The Bible is as dumb as fuck
homeborn 4 years ago
You are as dumb as fuck.
Other than a hustle and tool of control, most caucasians have never had a practical interest in practicing what they push on others.
How many slaves did JESUS have? How many times did JESUS wage a murderous assault on someone not part of their particular group? When did JESUS and the dicsiples rape women and men?
amerikkkas so called christian caucasoid population carried out all these atrocities and you are brain dead to read the BIBLE and know truth for yourself
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
GORE VIDAL'S EGO IS "DA BOMB". if you follow the line of his interviews over the years, he hasn't changed his views a modicum. just because he is loquacious about his views doesn't mean they are correct. if you want views that will trully stretch your mind, try reading AL JAZEERA and other similar types of ideas. ELVIS STILL LIVES AND VIDAL = THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER
ericsweetboy 4 years ago
Why change from the truth? FASHION?
Proverbs6and16 4 years ago
actually ur the dumb ass for supporting evil cunts like bush and his gang
homeborn 4 years ago
Gore Vidal is still one of the most important voices in this country. He has always been on the right side of history.
DARKLADYOFGA 4 years ago
Vidal does not overstate the matter. Please read the Military Comissions Act, which by itself redefines the US as a dictatorship. This is now the law of our land and is not an academic matter. Call your local paper and find that the editor has never heard of the MCA.
ednahall 4 years ago
Vidal really "gets it". The idiocy of today's Americans must drive him crazy. As far as those questioning the UN, Google United Nations Accomplishments. The superpowers have kept it weak (re: Darfur) but we citizens can work toward it's empowerment. I sure don't want THIS country ruling the world, with our love of violence and power.
tubetrekker30 4 years ago 2
Humans has always been stupid idiots
homeborn 4 years ago
I'm not so certain that people are stupid that always seems to be the default of someone who has given up on being able to get to the truth. I think it is more accurate to say that people are self absorbed to the point that they are willing to believe what the controlling owners of the media tell them to believe and finding comfort in that they vote with their heads in the ground and someone elses hand on lever.
blithespirits 4 years ago
Thats what i call STUPID
homeborn 4 years ago
Yes, I suppose by that definition you are correct.
blithespirits 4 years ago
the only way to educate the masses is the internet where the evil authorities dont exist. Freedom Now.
YOUTUBE IS KING
homeborn 4 years ago
How wonderfully paranoid. Do you childrens parties? I've never been so entertained. I mean that not as a social critic but as a fellow traveler.
blithespirits 4 years ago
whats ur point? i mean be more specific if u are capable
homeborn 4 years ago
I apologize but I don't know if you meant what you said about "educating the massess on the internet where the evil authorities don't exist." Were you being sarcastic because the evil authorities are all over the internet. Even if they can't do anything about descent they are monitoring us. Especially those on the left.
blithespirits 4 years ago
please dont apologise
all i said was they dont control the internet
YET
homeborn 4 years ago
understood
blithespirits 4 years ago
It is simply amazing how Americans so often trip over the truth,then stand up, brush themselves off and carry on as if nothing has happened.
Gillhoolee 4 years ago 2
as opposed to the rest of the world, which is PERFECT.
Brennafugg 4 years ago
The rest of the world is not being ruled by a right wing nazi.
lancer89032 4 years ago 2
The Zionists in AIPAC, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve rule over America. Unless these groups are dismantled and driven from power, the American people will never be free, and the world will be doomed to destruction.
freeedom333 4 years ago
Mohamed????? Is that You brother...spreading the word??? IDIOT
tommy1tit 4 years ago
Well, I guess now we all live in hell since Bush is still around. When I go to the mall or out, oh boy, it's hell out there. It's a police state just like the far-left scared me into thinking.
PartyWithChumpsky 4 years ago
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours
skylinepkr 4 years ago
how do you paste a video? do you paste to a web site or u-tube member? thanks. i'm new to this.
frank1600 4 years ago
Great ideas, great man.
TJS2154 4 years ago
This man is so pathetic, I ought to feel sorry for him. This fossilized remnant of the 60s, time has passed him by and he cannot understand why America has rejected him and his ideas. So he sits there agonizing and blaming everyone and everything else- from "stolen" elections, to faulty ballot to "tampered voting machines". How utterly pathetic.
DoubleGauss 4 years ago
Oh, what's the matter? It's as if you lost an important election in November or something. Wait a minute! You did ah! Poor ugly baby lost the election. Maybe if you spent less time fucking children and more time voting you might just be able to beat us. But that's not going to happen because the temptation to molest young boys is too great for you to resist. You have no Idea what that has done to your party and we will use it every chance we get. Can you say mass mailings? I thought you could.
thysbes 4 years ago
You "won" the election(barely) by running the most conservative candidates you could find, along with relentless assault on the administration from the DriveBy media and by managing to persuade just enough Americans who rely only on nightly network news. Liberals only win elections when they pretend not to be liberals. Did you run on any issues ? Oh yes - surrendering in Iraq, cutting off funding, and minimum wage increase- none of which you have the guts or the votes to follow through on.
DoubleGauss 4 years ago
You can run all the candidates you want but the right wing is finished. You broke the back of the republican party and now God is making you pay for it. By the way the moderates are the ones who will take power not the right wing. The latest polling shows that Americans do not trust the right wing. So, now you will pretend to be a moderate which is exactly where we want you.
thysbes 4 years ago
We conservatives despise moderates, just like we despise people like you. Moderates are liberals in disguise, liberals who are afraid to call themselves liberals. Moderates stand for NOTHING. They do not believe in ANYthing. They sit around and wait for a consensus to form, and then join the majority. Goodbye, idiot.
DoubleGauss 4 years ago
Pussy fucking child molesting Christ traitor! You will stand before God and be judged you filfthy America hating vagina. You and your children will burn! Why do you hate America? Why do you hate Jesus? You can't answer that because your a pathetic limp dick pussy. Your wife is whore for having you. I hope if there is ever a civil war that I might have the pleasure of dispatching you. Run! pussy Run! God, this man hasn't the fucking balls of a real conservative. Can you sill get it up?
thysbes 4 years ago
Crawl back in your hole, knuckledragger.
fisheyed 4 years ago
Brilliant! You see what happens to the fetus when it doesn't get enough oxygen. You fucking dumb ass! I hope you die! I wan't you dead you America hating piece of garbage. Die! Die! Die! Get out of my country you lard ass failed abortion!
thysbes 4 years ago
"Dumbass" is one word, dumbass. Pull your head out of yours and get out of MY country, dumbass.
fisheyed 4 years ago
Get your ass on a boat to the middle east you waist of sperm. I can't wait to gut like a pig when the civil war comes you filfthy America hating piece of garbage. It's going to be so much fun watching you suffer while your personal property is taken away and given to some one more deserving. You're no even human to me you gutless fart hole. Die! Go to the middle east if you don't like America!
thysbes 4 years ago
God you're tedious. You're a cancer on this great nation. America suffers slime like yourself, it's a free country. Do us all a favor and gut yourself. It's 'waste", not "waist" sperm gurgler. I don't care what I am to you, you mean less to me than dog shit on my shoe.
fisheyed 4 years ago
I'm glad that dog shit means something to you it's a pitty the shit doesn't feel the same way. It probably would be beneath it's dignity even if it was imbued with consciousness and a need for companionship. Your spelling is beautiful. Your intellect...negligible.
thysbes 4 years ago
I'm sorry, I meant to say, a BURNING need for companionship.
thysbes 4 years ago
Is fisheyed the best name your poor brain could manufacture? I've got one that fits you even better. repressedhomosexual.
thysbes 4 years ago
Odd that you bring homosexuality into it along with shit. Freudian really.
fisheyed 4 years ago
Stimry is my new nickname for you. You know, stimulus response. Don't bother replying you're not up to the challenge. It's too easy to pick on old senile women like you.
thysbes 4 years ago
Ha! You're easier to bait than Bill O'Reilly. What do you put on those hook wounds in your mouth? They must sting something fierce.
fisheyed 4 years ago
Yeah, I think it was Freud who said,"Sometimes a cigar is just a...45 year old loser named fisheyed.
thysbes 4 years ago
Spoken like a true Christian
LEATSLAN 4 years ago
Conservatism is Un-American
LEATSLAN 4 years ago
Yet you promote Freedman's work, you're either a moron or a complete jackass. I'll go with the latter.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
We have already won the propaganda war. You just don't realize it. Bush has disgraced himself and when the economy falls, and it will, he will be blamed for it. Every knee shall bow every tongue confess. The public has gotten smarter. Smarter than you ever estimated. Your pride and child sodomy is your down fall. Eat garbage and die for all I care. I hope you die while trying to bomb an abortion clinic. You filfthy Christ hater.
thysbes 4 years ago
You cowardly turd. Run and hide that's the republican agenda.
thysbes 4 years ago
Ha! Ha! Ha! poor limp dick abortion clinic bomber can't win a simple election. What happened that day did the man at the agency promise you a boy under 9 years old? I suppose you just can't help yourself. Too bad Christ hater! Every knee shall bow every tongue confess.
thysbes 4 years ago
first its the terrorists then the immigrants then everyone else but the rich on your way to the poorhouse. thank god i dont live in the american fascist state
morris0n2 4 years ago
>thank god i dont live in the american fascist state
and we are glad you don't, cause we dont want fucking commies like you.
DoubleGauss 4 years ago
Thanks for not voting in November. The fact that the right wing lost so badly can't be good propaganda for you. Keep hating America as you probably will and blaspheme God as often as possibly by PRETENDING to believe in him. You probably think It's ok to fuck little boys because your saved by the blood of the lamb don't you? Well it does'nt work that way you have to really believe and sin no more.
thysbes 4 years ago
Every knee shall bow every tongue confess.
thysbes 4 years ago
Every knee shall bow every tongue confess and in the end you will be written from the book of the lamb.
thysbes 4 years ago
DoubleGass, your daddy must have hurt your little anus something terrible to make you so angwy!!!
LEATSLAN 4 years ago
There is no illuminati. The left has been naive to think that they could defeat the right with logic and reason. Pure Machiavelianism is the only way to defeat the right. Where is our Rush Limbaugh? Maybe it's Bill Maher but then again it could be John Stewart. But I digress. I hope we have a mass mailing effort to defeat them because they send out gay pornographic images to make their point. How do you fight that? Pornographic images of children? Start thinking people get your shit together.
thysbes 4 years ago
>Where is our Rush Limbaugh?
There will never be one. You people have tried over and over again and each time you have crashed and burnt and embarrassed yourselves. You know why ? Among other reasons, Liberalism is a FAILURE. It has utterly failed to achieve anything and America has rejected it. Its time has gone.
DoubleGauss 4 years ago
Every knee shall bow every tongue confess.
thysbes 4 years ago
Vidal Gore, I am an expert analyst on virtue, greatness and wisdom. You poses all three. And I hope the sons and daughters of the USA SEE your clearity, on the priceless value of the Republic and it's mechanisms to protect from all it's preditors.
Thank-you for sharing this video.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
icboulton 5 years ago
CLICK ON MY NAME to learn how to take action for an IMPEACHMENT. We have to save this Republic, and IMEAPCHING Bush is imperative to this. Click on "Impeachment 2007"
Ricky2112 5 years ago
The Republicans control a vast share of the media due to their powerful influence and the Diebolt electronic voting machine are owned by a repuplican friendly company. I hope the Demoocrates and the 2008 Democrate President make a major clean up in all this quadmire
librophile 5 years ago
Gore Vidal at his age still envelopes a vibrant uncanny intuition. A keen common sense few learned possess in this day and age.
His few words flow like books of knowledge. A gift many young people like me hope to inherit even a spec of. Your wisdom and good grace should be heeded. Thankyou Gore for being a compassionate teacher for the next generation.
A warning cry to the few who still listen. Maybe one will carry the torch to save the Republic.
UYITOTO 5 years ago
2 boring jews talking, and 1 of them wants to get power. Like it'll be any difference with democrats ruling in US.. Both republicans & democrats are stinking moshe-supremacy-politicians anyway..
Chrijz 5 years ago
Great writer, too.
wog7 5 years ago
How can I/we thank you. Mr Vidal; a lifetime of insight, thought provoking humor, and an American Statesman personafied when so few are worthy of such accolades.
I extend my hand in gratitude.
tonelook 5 years ago
great writer, now here's my question, how does a socialist propose to get his depends in a collective society?
RightWingCon81 5 years ago
Hmm, maybe you could adopt a system like Canadian socialised healthcare; free for everyone, and funded by taxation. We consider it a human right, but maybe you think that's a pinko statement?
Just athought.
icboulton 5 years ago
well, let's examine Canada's system. The taxation you speak of is ungodly, the Canadian tax bourdon is unimaginable. The tax they pay on gas alone would make your American (give me but please don't overtax me) head spin. Try paying almost $7 a gallon next time there's a spike in the market.
RightWingCon81 5 years ago
Now lets talk about what those taxes get you. Try mediocre med care, endless waiting periods for vital surgery and an unspeakably expensive "shadow market" of doctors in private practice who stay in business because the system doesn't work. Research before you spout off.
RightWingCon81 5 years ago
Or let's talk about life expectancy; how it's higher in dirty poor Cuba than it is in the US.
MarquisdeBarrabas 5 years ago
And you're getting those figures from where? Let's be real here, even if you have a source I'm sure it was a made up number put out by Castro, we all know HE can be trusted right? I guess that's why Cubans are making rafts to leave that paradise.
RightWingCon81 5 years ago
Don't try to poison the well. I don't know what MarquisedeBarrabas was pointing too, but I do know where similar figures came from.
And the figures came from a British medical Journal called Lancet. It's the oldest medical journal in the UK.
bythewayof10 5 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
You are so full of your greed, your comments glow.
Try UN stats report, thats were I read it. Also Cuba has the lowest pasients/doctor ratios, and is a leading contributor in research breakthroughs in medicine, that also contribute to the US healthcare through US subsiduries in other countries that have not blockaded trade with Cuba, like Canada, Germany, Swiss, France, UK, and so on. My doctor graduates per capita graduate in Cuba too.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
That's right you Dominianist door-to-door dillusionist bible thumper, $7 dollars a gallon and soon to be $21 and $64 and you will be driving all the way to Alberta to get your oil fix, you oil junky.
There is not one DNA strand in your whole being that posses a common sense marker. So go sell crazy somewhere else, we are not buying here.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
Funny how you mentioned gas prices when socialist EEuropean countries and Canada are paying much more than we are for oil due to their stupid tax system, and I like how you make up lies about the Cuban government when my family (part of whom are Cuban my father is Cuban) who lived in Cuba say people like you are full of shit.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
I don't make up lies of the Cuban government. All my sources are from the UN, medical professionals from Canada which know personaly that have studied, researched and done bussiness in Cuba. So please cut it out with your propaganda chit chat.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
The UN is a flawed organization whose statistics are often skewed to favor socialist nations, it is exceedingly anti-American, anti-Israeli, and most people with half a brain do not trust them. I won't trust an org. that puts China, and Iran on the counsel for human rights.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
UN is not a totaly flawed org. And the concept of the UN is the future and only hope for the World, to keep the peace and balance on Earth. The problem is the nations and private/corporate interests who try to abuse it.
cont'd 1of2
Aegialeus 4 years ago
cont'd 2of2 UN
Would you prefer a polarized world? Or a Nazi/Theocratic like regime to have hegemony world wide? I think NOT. Freedom is the most precious thing in the world and people put their lives on the line for it. But beware of those who try to convince or sway you of false freedom for their own personal profitiering. Your life for their personal "precious" gain.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
The UN promotes peace? Right, that's why they've stopped the killings in Darfur, why they did so well to stop violence in Rwanda, and are doing a bang up job with China's hold on Tibet. I don't believe in a useless org. that only serves to strip us of our sovreignty.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
re: "The UN promotes peace?"
The UN is only as good as it's supposed honest brokers, that includes the USA, Israel and China.
But I see were your going with this, the only solution for YOU would be to engage in a full scale NUCLEAR confritation, so that would trigger a world wide extinction of something called life. You'd think this would promote you to the next level of the game called salvation,...
Aegialeus 4 years ago
I believe in economic freedom and a strong defense and national sovreignty and neither of us will change each other's mind. I will not change because I'm too smart, and you won't because you're too stupid so I won't be answering more of your stupid posts filled with your propaganda. The successes of such thinking are wonderful, like the Soviets, the Cubans and the N. Koreans. You're a filth.
PS Makarios was a pussy you Greek cock sucker.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
re: "I believe"
Your mind is fast becoming just a fad. Part of a blip on the socio-economic time scale of the history of humankind. You think the world is a bottumless well of resources for your greedy taking. To smart? Your in trouble now, go see a specialist. You fear what you can not understand, or what others tell you to fear. Start thinking for yourself.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
I love this one too. I KNOW that resources are not infinite, it's socialists who believe that they are. Soc. want finite goods to meet infinite wants, yet soc. gov's are not good at producing anything. You think everyone has a right to a good home, enough food and a decent job with decent pay whether they work for it or not, when you can't cover that you look to the haves and in reality they have a right (in your eyes) to MY food, MY home and MY job, in the real world, that's called theft.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
"RightWingCon81"
RE: "gov's are not good at producing anything"
You have much to learn. Why are you living in the US then? Afghanistan "was" a perfect egsample of what happens when there is no government that can not produce anything. Everyone looking out for #1, will shoot you for your boots. Moronic Taliban was with their Theiocratic loonacy, & a perfect haven for that PIECE OF SHIT OSAMA & AND HIS BAND OF COWARDS.
Aegialeus 4 years ago
I said SOCIALIST gov. are bad at producing and we all know that private industry is A LOT better at producing than gov. The Taliban WAS a gov. and they had a VERY low crime rate b/c they would kill you if you stole or murdered so no, no one was being shot over botts you idiot, the Taliban is a perfect EXAMPLE (correct your spelling) of why gov. being in charge of everything is bad.
RightWingCon81 4 years ago
Sorry. I don't use grammer check and spell check, to make you feel more happy.
What ever with the rest of your psycobabble. Your to smart for me, go fix the problems in Afghanistan.
Over and out.
Aegialeus 4 years ago