Gore Vidal: US Under Obama Could Slide Into Military Dictatorship... | |
georgebushworstprezever User ID: 778621 United States 09/30/2009 07:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "US Under Obama Could Slide Into Military Dictatorship"... WTF?? I guess reading comprehension is not your forte, eh? No where in the article does Vidal actually say or even infer this. Nice try. Nevertheless, it's an interesting article about an interesting person. It's too bad he's never actually fully come to terms with his sexual identity. It's too bad you (the OP) didn't select some of the things he says about Bush, McCain or the GOP to use in your thread title instead. It would have been just as enticing, but actually truthful. |
New Age Messiah User ID: 782948 United States 09/30/2009 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No where in the article does Vidal actually say or even infer this. Quoting: georgebushworstprezever 778621Yeah he does. He says it, that there could be a power vacuum, that the military will drive Obama from power, because Obama is so lame. |
georgebushworstprezever User ID: 778621 United States 09/30/2009 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No where in the article does Vidal actually say or even infer this. Quoting: New Age MessiahYeah he does. He says it, that there could be a power vacuum, that the military will drive Obama from power, because Obama is so lame. Sorry, but that isn't what he says in the article. Nice try also. |
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Cyndexia User ID: 720862 Puerto Rico 09/30/2009 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Military Dictatorship? Never going to happen. Quoting: Faith1+ I will that "Sometimes the object of the Journey may not be the end, but the Journey itself" :2013: Email: [email protected] :) |
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Shingen User ID: 762457 United States 09/30/2009 07:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good article. Thx! "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based of five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, or county commissioners." - Edward Abbey "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." -Lysander Spooner "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothing, and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order." - Firefly |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 744446 United States 09/30/2009 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it's a very good article. i suspect though that most people will just react against the title of the thread, without actually reading the full article, and thus won't get gore vidal's whole point. here's the particular paragraph where the quote appears, for a bit more context. 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.” |
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georgebushworstprezever User ID: 778621 United States 09/30/2009 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it's a very good article. i suspect though that most people will just react against the title of the thread, without actually reading the full article, and thus won't get gore vidal's whole point. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 744446here's the particular paragraph where the quote appears, for a bit more context. 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.” I agree. It's a good article and a nice glimpse at an interesting person. It's too bad the OP chose to "fudge" on the thread title to get people to react. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 744446 United States 09/30/2009 07:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | it's a very good article. i suspect though that most people will just react against the title of the thread, without actually reading the full article, and thus won't get gore vidal's whole point. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 744446here's the particular paragraph where the quote appears, for a bit more context. 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.” case in point: new age messiah |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 772524 United States 09/30/2009 07:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "US Under Obama Could Slide Into Military Dictatorship"... Quoting: georgebushworstprezever 778621WTF?? I guess reading comprehension is not your forte, eh? No where in the article does Vidal actually say or even infer this. Nice try. Nevertheless, it's an interesting article about an interesting person. It's too bad he's never actually fully come to terms with his sexual identity. It's too bad you (the OP) didn't select some of the things he says about Bush, McCain or the GOP to use in your thread title instead. It would have been just as enticing, but actually truthful. Focus on the puppets! FOCUS ON THE PUPPETS! . |
New Age Messiah User ID: 782948 United States 09/30/2009 07:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This JA can read perfectly well, including between the lines. Quoting: georgebushworstprezever 778621US under Obama could Slide into Military Dictatorship EQUALS We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. You're an idiot. Give up. |
georgebushworstprezever User ID: 778621 United States 09/30/2009 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This JA can read perfectly well, including between the lines. Quoting: New Age MessiahUS under Obama could Slide into Military Dictatorship EQUALS We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. You're an idiot. Give up. I guess you're right up there with the OP as far as reading comprehension goes. |
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New Age Messiah User ID: 782948 United States 10/01/2009 12:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Its because Obama is a fucking moron who will get us all killed if the military doesnt step in and send his ass back to kenya. Quoting: PACNWguyYeah, we have Gore Vidal and NewsMax saying a military coup is in the cards. Damn sure can't let Obama run things. Nobody's that stupid. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 783923 Canada 10/01/2009 02:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Military Dictatorship? Never going to happen. Quoting: FaithNever say Never. Natural or fabricated disasters are only small examples of how this can occur. The military industrial complex has a budget that exceeds every dollar americans pay each year in income tax. Get real. |
New Age Messiah User ID: 782948 United States 10/01/2009 02:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the military coup comment comes in when vidal talks about the fact that no one in america can hold anything together because we're all too busy stupidly fighting with each other. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 744446Is that right. How about pasting the text from which you draw you conclusion??? Obama is the president, his job as he himself stated was to bring America together. He has torn it apart, and you are much much worse than a dumbass, so consider yourself spared. Obama is incapable of doing his job, so the military may have to step in and do it for him. That's what Vidal is saying. He's putting it on Obama. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 744446 United States 10/01/2009 02:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the military coup comment comes in when vidal talks about the fact that no one in america can hold anything together because we're all too busy stupidly fighting with each other. Quoting: New Age MessiahIs that right. How about pasting the text from which you draw you conclusion??? Obama is the president, his job as he himself stated was to bring America together. He has torn it apart, and you are much much worse than a dumbass, so consider yourself spared. Obama is incapable of doing his job, so the military may have to step in and do it for him. That's what Vidal is saying. He's putting it on Obama. i already quoted it once. 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.” and no, obama has not torn it apart. americans have torn it apart. vidal is saying that no one is capable of bringing it back together. |
georgebushworstprezever User ID: 778621 United States 10/01/2009 02:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the military coup comment comes in when vidal talks about the fact that no one in america can hold anything together because we're all too busy stupidly fighting with each other. Quoting: New Age MessiahIs that right. How about pasting the text from which you draw you conclusion??? Obama is the president, his job as he himself stated was to bring America together. He has torn it apart, and you are much much worse than a dumbass, so consider yourself spared. Obama is incapable of doing his job, so the military may have to step in and do it for him. That's what Vidal is saying. He's putting it on Obama. Wrong yet again. You really do deserve an "F" in reading comprehension. |
New Age Messiah User ID: 782948 United States 10/01/2009 02:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 744446Follow the trail of words, dumbass. Obama is in charge of the military. He FAILS. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 744446 United States 10/01/2009 02:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama... Quoting: New Age MessiahFollow the trail of words, dumbass. Obama is in charge of the military. He FAILS. do you understand the purpose of periods? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 744446 United States 10/01/2009 02:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | do you understand the purpose of periods? Quoting: New Age MessiahDo you understand that thoughts run in a sequence from one to the other, usually in a logical pattern???? ok, let's try again. "nobody else can hold anything together" obviously this means that nobody else besides obama can hold anything together. you understand that, right? vidal isn't blaming obama specifically, he is saying this about all americans. |