Gore Vidal: Bush Inaugural "Most UnAmerican Speech I've Ever Heard."

[Sandpiper]

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Well, I hardly know where to end, much less begin. There's not a word of truth in anything that he said. Our founding fathers did not set us on a course to liberate all the world from tyranny. Jefferson just said, “all men are created equal, and should be,” etc, but it was not the task of the United States to “go abroad to slay dragons,” as John Quincy Adams so wisely put it; because if the United States does go abroad to slay dragons in the name of freedom, liberty, and so on, she could become “dictatress of the world,” but in the process “she would lose her soul.”

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...I would have to parse this thing line by line and have it in front of me. It goes in one ear and out the other as lies often do, particularly rhetorical lies that have been thought up by second-rate advertising men, which are the authors of this speech. It is the most un-American speech I’ve ever heard a chief executive give to the United States;

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1458238

[burythehatchet]

1. second-rate ad men...oh so precise

"nows not the time to roll out a new product"

[ClintonTyree]

2. Vidal's no dummy...............

unlike our pretzelnit. But our god fearing, flag waving, apple pie eating citizens eat bush's bullshit up like it was ambrosia. Like lambs to the slaughter. It's fucking incredible.

[mistertrickster]

3. Yup, wonder what words of wisdumb we have to look forward to in

the State of the Onion speech.

[LSparkle]

4. "I'm a wartime president, I'm a wartime president ... "

Vidal's imitation of Chimpy (or, as he described him, a "yappy terrier") still makes me laugh.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Excellent article!

Gore Vidal is one of my favorites! :)

[RoBear]

6. Link brings up message

"no such story exists." Is the link in error?

[BrklynLiberal]

7. That is what I got too

No such story exists.

[Sandpiper]

9. Try it now

n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Here is another link to that story. See if this one works

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1458238&mode=thread&tid=25