Gore Vidal hasn't been relevant for decades. He's dead but doesn't have the common decency to lie down.

Each time the black American government leaders get in a bind it's race. What a crock of crap! Remember when OJ got off? Well, Obama will not get off being the worst (non-American) President the U.S. has ever seen. This Muslim signs anything that will cause harm to the U.S. or it's principals. The ACORN falls very close to the tree, and his family were communists, socialists, and he still hangs with the same. Why did he not run for office in Kenya, at least they could relate to his ways. The 50% of the people in America that do pay tax think he stinks. Why do you think the other half like him?

Wow. This is one nasty, anti-American old man.

If he calls Republicans enemies of the people, just imagine what he thinks of the Liberal-Socialists who are subverting our Constitution!

P.S. Vidal... We don't hate Obama because he's black. That's a Democrat thing. We despise the Dictator-Wannabe that he is.

If this hate-mongering diaper wearer hates america so much why did he come back to the US after living in Italy for the last 3 decades. I guess because he is senile

From 2000 to 2008, Gore Vidal and his bosom pals constantly threw hissy fits about George Bush and Republicans; charging Bush had crushed the Constitution, Bush would send jackbooted leather-boys to break down their doors (perhaps that was their dream instead of a nightmare), and elections would be canceled as Bush seized dictatorial powers. I don't know what is more dismaying: that the Vidalites could actually sink so low as to utter such obvious rubbish; or that the American (and European) media so willingly aided and abetted them by happily treating their charges and giving them prominence.

That Vidal would now repeat such ludicrous and disproven charges claims is little short of amazing. Indeed, it was not Bush who was, and is not Republicans who are the threats to destroy the Constitution, but Vidal's favorite brand of despot, Barack Obama, who has done far more to crush Americans' freedom than any Republican in history.

But it is amusing to see how sharply NS has responded to help Vidal get the word out to the faithful once more. What a disgusting performance.

After reading all your inane comments, all I have to say is "you are all idiots!"

deranged freak with liberal mental disorder now a senile deranged freak with liberal mental disorder

It pays to know a little history. Vidal and many other liberals make fools of themselves.

http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/2005/02/history_of_the_.html

http://www.gop.com/index.php/issues/accomplishment/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqfRn2V-NxM&feature=related

Another opinion from the Gayblade Old Folks Hom@

Gore Vidal is another washed up has been, preaching mastercard marxism, and unfortunately we have one of his disciples in the White House.

We'll neuter the Left on November 2nd, thankfully.

You know what really scares me here in the States? The uproar from those on the Right when they realize they didn't get to vote for a new president on Nov 2nd, and won't be able to for another two years!!! Judging from the comments here, there are a lot these useful idiots out there, and they ain't going to be happy one bit!!!

Vidal is a great American patriot. I know its a real stretch to expect most of the morons on this site to grasp what an intellectual actually, is since no one here has a clue what a marxist or communist is. Since few of you seem capable of thinking for yourself. When the great right wing bible thumping dictator slides on in, none of you will have the luxury of free thought again.
You are bringing this on yourselves, America. Listen to Gore. He is wise. God help us all from the idiocracy.

Bore Vidal. Tired old commie, why was this magazine interested at all, inquiring browser from Drudge would like to know. Oh, maybe the mag is also staffed by tired old commies?

But more interestingly, what is a New Statesman? Is Obama one? Just curious, was there an old "Statesman" magazine before 1913 and this is the New Statesman, now abut 100 years "new"? What did they mean by New Statesman back in 1913? The kind that provoked and then conducted WW1?

Why to call a magazine New (or any other adjective) Statesman? To idolize politicians? Positive focusing on statist ideologies? Is there also a Secretariat Times in the UK? The Committee Tribune? The Minister Today?

Now we have two idiot Gores (as if one wasn't enough!).

Yes, please keep telling us that we don't like Obama because he's half-African/half-Caucasian. Perhaps that's exactly why you LIKE him, Mr. Gore, regardless of his character. I wonder why it is I don't like you, Mr. Gore? (Hint: it is not because of your race/religion/creed.)

help

Always the race card. Would that be the human race or what? How about the dummy card? And what is this 'we' lose wars crap? Where is your gun Gorry?

Surrounded by Idiots. Karl Marx once said; "I am not a Marxist!". He also once called his adherents "useful idiots".

Who’s Racist?
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Obamas Reverse race card was played against white people (they will tell you I look funny, i don't look like the guys on the money etc.) & that was blatantly racist & shameless
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Obamas wife gets on 60 minutes during the campaign and plays the race card when she comments she worries about her husband getting killed when he goes to the gas station (they lived in an upscale white neighborhood)
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Obama calls out on national tv a white cop who arrested his buddy for disorderly conduct, as acting stupidly. Then he bullies him publicly into attending a beer conference w the professor, himself & joe biden (for balance?) for a full fledged media photo op to make obama look good & the guy basically can't refuse to attend without looking like a racist
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Nancy Pelosi is the one who started calling the tea party & town hall protestors, thugs, brownshirts and claimed they were acting like nazi's
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- “Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are. That's not the overriding issue here. I think there are people who are anti-government.” Obama

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Reverend Wright is not so quickly forgotten. When your mentor is an ex muslim, a racist on tape during church sermons, promotes jew hating louis farrakhan (an american muslim) in the church magazine, you claim him as a father figure and state publicly in prior campaigns that you are a very regulary church goer.....what else can we think but that you are not a big fan of white people.
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Mark Lloyd Diversity Direct of at the FCC, appointed by Obama has praised Hugo Chavez, suggested White Media executives step down in favor of minorities and his commitment to free speech is questioned in this article by the Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/23/diversity-czar-takes-hea...
Another Marxist, reverse racist, working for Obama.
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It should also not be forgotten that the majority of Democrats voted against civil rights in the 50's and again in the 60s when it passed. JFK and Al Gores Daddy both voted against it. They also voted against the 13 and 14th amendment, created the Jim crow laws, ruled the south for a hundred years and manned the army of the KKK. Of course the party was founded by slave owners, including Andrew Jackson, to maintain slavery and its members ran the South in the Civil war.

Who Lied On Healthcare Cost
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Columnist David Brooks pointed out in his March 10th column that the Democrats stuffed the health legislation with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but that of course won't honestly control runaway spending. Here is how they gamed the system, themselves, the taxpayers and the C.B.O.:
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• There is the doc fix dodge. The legislation pretends that Congress is about to cut Medicare reimbursements 21 percent. Everyone knows that will never happen, so over the next decade actual spending will be $300 billion higher than paper projections.
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• There is the long-term care dodge. The bill creates a $72 billion trust fund to pay for a new long-term care program. The sponsors count that money as cost-saving, even though it will eventually be paid back out when the program comes on line.
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• There is the subsidy dodge. Workers making $60,000 and in the health exchanges would receive $4,500 more in subsidies in 2016 than workers making $60,000 and not in the exchanges. There is no way future Congresses will allow that disparity to persist. Soon, everybody will get the subsidy.
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• There is the excise tax dodge. The primary cost-control mechanism and long-term revenue source for the program is the tax on high-cost plans. But Democrats aren't willing to levy this tax for eight years. The fiscal sustainability of the bill rests on the naive hope that a future Congress will accept a trillion-dollar tax when the current Congress wouldn't accept an increase of a few billion.
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• There is the 10-6 dodge. One of the reasons the bill appears deficit-neutral in the first decade is that it begins collecting revenue right away but doesn't have to pay for most benefits until 2014. That's 10 years of revenues to pay for 6 years of benefits, something unlikely to happen again unless the country agrees to go without health care for four years every decade.
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• There is the Social Security dodge. The bill uses $52 billion in higher Social Security taxes to pay for health care expansion. But if Social Security taxes pay for health care, what pays for Social Security?
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• There is the pilot program dodge. Admirably, the bill includes pilot programs designed to help find ways to control costs. But it's not clear that the bill includes mechanisms to actually implement the results. This is what happened to undermine previous pilot program efforts.
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Despite Obama touting its deficit neutrality, he and The Democrats have built yet another unsustainable and likely unkillable program that will damage Americas fiscal and economic future and every taxpayer should know it and be mad as hell about it.

Here's the new N-word:
November!
bye-bye Gores (both of them) and TOTUS.

I only have feelings of pity for Mr. Vidal. May God touch his heart and give him the strength and wisdom to keep his thoughts to himself. How unspeakably sad he is.

Ah yes, those watertight, well researched and evidenced arguments that have provided the backbone of the posts here.

Radicals In The White House - Would You Hire These People?
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Anita Dunn, recently former White House Communications Director is on record as stating that Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa are her two favorite philosophers. If that is not alarming enough when you go down the list of Obama's various czars the story gets stranger and more frightening.
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There was Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar, who claimed he became a Marxist while in prison. He was ousted after signing petitions claiming the Bush Administration carried out 9/11.
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There is Cass Sunstein the Regulator Czar who questioned the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and who's 2004 book states that he believes animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives.
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There is Obama's Science Czar John Holdren who co-authored a book called Ecoscience where he proposed population controls through putting sterilants in drinking water and forced abortions. Then there's Energy Czar,
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Carol Browner who was an official member of Socialist Internationals Commission For A Sustainable World Society until the summer of 2008, a group who's key position is that rich countries must shrink their economies to address Global Warming.
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You also have Mark Lloyd, an appointee to the FCC as Diversity Czar who praises the "democratic revolution and rise to power" of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. He has also called for White media executivies to resign to make room for minorities.
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Perhaps Obama's 15 page vetting sheet did not uncover these items so we can give him the benefit of the doubt that these people concealed these things or that Obama was unaware of them. One would hope he does not share their ideology or their extreme views. As citizens we would hope and should demand that he remove them from his administration.
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(Keep in mind that he appointed Tim Geithner as sec of treasure...runs the IRS...though he had been caught for not paying his taxes for 2 years, in fact he was caught for 2 and paid those though he had 2 others he had not paid and until appointed by obama he did not pay those. This is who obama picked to run the IRS.
As for Elena Kagan, his supreme court pick, while dean at harvard she wrote a letter to congress concerned that the "constitutional rights" of foreign terrorists would be violated by Bush Administration. Not sure about that but I would think foreign terrorists would not have constitutional rights, simply given that they are not only foreigners but enemies of our country.)

Gore needs to head back to the "retirement center" for his daily enema & prune juice. He's wacky

Since when did the New Statesman become the magazine of choice for extremists? Why read at all, if it's only an excuse to spout stale McCarthyist propaganda? We all realise that there are people like yourselves who will confuse any effort to create a more equal society with Stalinism. We sympathise.