Gore Vidal on Obama, Hillary & McCain


	Gore Vidal on Obama, Hillary & McCain

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/171b73b6-c671-46a7-8118-7858ef9cfec6/B1F90BB7-DFA2-4169-853A-9BB2F11F827D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3952774.ece" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3952774.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">entertainment.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3952774.ece"><H1 class="heading">I knew JFK, says Gore Vidal, and believe me Obama’s the better leader</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3952774.ece"><P>
“I never believed in Jack’s charisma,” Vidal says shortly. JFK, he believes,
was “one of our worst presidents”; Bobby, his brother, was “a phoney, a
little Torquemada”; and their father, Joseph, was “a crook – should have
been in jail”.
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So much for Camelot. “But Jack had great charm,” he adds. “So has Obama. He’s
better educated than Jack. And he’s been a working senator. Jack never went
to the office – he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3952774.ece"><P><I>You</I> could beat McCain! I’ve
never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went
to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his
aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into
‘war hero’.”
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In his view, McCain is “a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about
mortgages, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His
head rattles as he walks”.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B1F90BB7-DFA2-4169-853A-9BB2F11F827D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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