Using Tea-Party and Republican interchangably shows a lack of comprehension on the part of Mr. Vidal. This is caused either by leftist bias, or lazy research methods. I realize the old guy is getting along in years, but isn't the legacy long enough? Does he need to continue the Yoda routine?

Drudge Rednecks versus the New Statesman elitists. This is fun!

..sigh..

Using the race card ad nauseum is not doing the left any credit. People are wise to their phony pandering and mock social concern. They are only after elitist control. What have they done in any country in the world that isn't an utter disaster?

Let's see, 90% of blacks think OJ is innocent and 90% of blacks think Nobama is doing a good job. Hmmmm, any racial bias on those numbers?

Nobama is an amatuer and arrogant beyond compare. He is a twit and will be remembered as the most devisive, destructive and incompetent president in our great history.

"These are the small-town enemies of everybody" I love being reminded how stupid guys like me are. Small town, self employed idiots who have no use in society except generating tax revenue!! We should just change the laws so guys like me just hand over the money we make to smart liberals like this smuck. Then they can use those super brains to put the money to use in the best way. Maybe we could just be milked for tax revenues everyday like dairy cows.

Why would anyone print this line of bull? This commie clown has no credibility. What happened to the democrats anyway? Their whole leadership talks about going socialist, communist, marxists. And to pete up above, I'll name 1 thing that proves the clown and thief is a marxist, he is taking wealth from the producers, and giving it to the non-producers. It makes sense from a marxist point of view that it is acorn, unions, and illegals. They will always have their hands out looking for more. They are parasites, which is a great description of a marxist, communist, socialist.

Gore Vidal is an idiot disguised as some sort of great thinker.

Phew! I think the American nutters have now found something else to occupy their time.

Just another detached from reality angry Leftist living in an alternate universe. LOL !!

Chairman Obama's already using the DOJ and IRS against people he doesn't like. How much longer until he suspends elections altogether "For the common good"?

Assia W.:

You must wakeup from your hypnosis and begin to reflect on the obvious. You will find the most parsimonious explanation is correct, and that your induced mental contortions to dismiss the obvious are what keep you confused in your perspectives and life.

To bear witness to the obvious commonality in Marxism, socialism, fascism, and communism is absurd only to the miseducated, the indoctrinated.

You defend a point of view as if it were your own, as if it were your very life. Actually, it was put into you through the process of conditioning. You are just a product of what others have planned and intended for you to believe.

It is very easy to properly educate yourself with respect to the common Marxist / socialist / communist / fascist history, roots, foundation, philosophy, development, activities, governmental structure, name, symbols, agenda, goals, programs, and results.

I would give you along list of sources as to where to begin your education, however it is up to you to reawaken your innate curiosity and desire to recognize how you've been mislead. I have done my part to bring this to your attention, now it is in your hands to examine how you mind has been conditioned to deny what your common sense once showed you in how to recognize the obvious truth.

Every time I bring this topic to the attention of readers and lecture participants around the world, there are at least a few who contact me later to say how odd it is that they didn't see the obvious before.

It is in itself an interesting study to examine this awakening and how it comes about and what the impediments are to it happening. Begin to research the topic, discuss it with others who are investigating. You will begin to see again, with eyes open, common sense engaged, as you did in your earlier days in life.

No one hates Barack Obama because he's black. He's hated because he's a Marxist and an anti-colonialist bent on redistributing American wealth. His ban on American drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico while financing Brazil and Mexico to drill there is proof that he's a traitor to his country. He has probably set back race relations fifty years.

So we've got a 'birther' making comments. See the BBC's "Q&A: Obama's birth certificate" at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8171314.stm for an examination of this nonsense.

Yes, Benedict...retaking our country does indeed occupy our time -- so does the freedom to express our opinions about it. We may be a bit of a windy lot and we certainly disagree amongst ourselves, but we're at least ACTIVE and ENGAGED, and unwilling to just passively accept (or even worse, rush headlong into) self-obliteration like your typical European. We're busily reshaping the most powerful nation on earth, and the rest of the world by default along with it.

What, exactly, are YOU doing for YOUR own nation -- you know, the one that had 'Mohammed' as the most popular baby boy's name recently?

Mr. Gore is stuck in the 1960's. Back thne I thought Republicans were totalitarian fascist. Today I see conservative Republicans as trhe anti-totalitarian fascist because they want a very limited central government. So how can Republicans want a dicatorship?!?! On the other hand, democrats want a strong central government in the hands of a one-party totalitarian, fascist, leftwing central government. With czars running almost every aspect of out lives and diets. The science czar, John Holdren, supports empowering central government to control populations.

Anita Dunn, another Obama appointee, believes Chariman Mao is the perfect role-model for guidance in how to grab political power to run central government by totalitarian measures.

Gore Vidal, like myself in the 1960's, is looking in the wrong direction!

Gore jumped the shark a long time ago. He offers nothing of interest or substance anymore.

Old Gore may be knocking on a bit but he still knows how to get up their noses! Bet they can't wait for him to pop his clogs so they can all kiss his arse. This doesn't look like senility to me, he's still as sharp as it gets.
Way to go Gore!

Vidal's problem is obvious.

His head is in a place where the sun does not shine!

Think Vidal is right on about America heading towards a dictatorship, he just missed the democrats under O will try with in the next three weeks.

Gotta love how the marxists won't allow anyone to disagree with their idols. I guess we all have to be marxists now, or we'll be sent straight to the re-education camps as racist baggers, eh?

I love it when liberals/socialists engage in the exact conduct they say that they hate. Vidal's hatred and sweeping generalization of MILLIONS of people he doesn't know show his true colors.

Predictable and boring. Yawn.

And it's even funnier that the left ACTUALLY BELIEVES that most conservatives (not to mention independents, alot of Democrats etc.) can't stand Obama because he is a total failure. Nothing but a socialist idealogue whose radical leftist views were fomented at the bastion of that philosophy.

Bye bye Dems. Thank for playing.

P.S. I am an independent, so save the Rush Limbaugh-esque comments...

Gore Vidal's been right about a lot of things, usually too late or too early to do anyone any good. He's wrong about Obama though. Obama's an utter mediocrity, and very weak. Even more than Reagan, others do his thinking and "deciding" for him. That said, he's no worse than Bush or Clinton. With any luck the Tea Party will destroy both parties, by which I mean the two heads of the corrupt, Constitution-smashing Moloch that is our government. I want to feel clean again.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Is he done yet? The irrelevancy that is Gore Vidal and the Left.

They teeter between verbal flatulence and media flagellation of anyone who does not think like them.

Gore Vidal is a totally delusionalold Marxist who once wrote an over-rated novel. Who cares WHAT he says????