Gore Vidal blames coming US dictatorship on Bush; thinks Obama may be assassinated

I have always admired Gore Vidal's intellect and political insight. Who can forget Vidal's run-in with that pseudo intellectual phony William F. Buckley?

Then I read this from Timesonline:

“One thing I have hated all my life are LIARS and I live in a nation of them. It was not always the case. I don’t demand honour, that can be lies too. I don’t say there was a golden age, but there was an age of general intelligence. We had a watchdog, the media. Would that it was. They’re busy preparing us for an Iranian war.”

Gore Vidal says of Obama “because he doesn’t lie. We know the fool from Arizona [as he calls John McCain] is a liar. We never got the real story of how McCain crashed his plane [in 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam] and was held captive.”

Say again! How can a man of Vidal's intellectual stature be so blind to Obama's devotion to Wall Street oligarchs, and his administration's never ending stream of lies and deception? Vidal goes on to portray Obama as a victim, a man whose decisions are controlled by domineering generals, a man who has squandered his potential, a man with no vision. One could almost confuse Vidal's characterization of Obama with a Manchurian Candidate, to which I might agree.

Vidal predicts dictatorship in the U.S. and blames it on Bush and the stupidity of the American people:

“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 realize 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.”

Gore Vidal's belief in party politics is a huge flaw, especially considering that it's painfully clear the U.S. political landscape is and has been dominated by a two-party monopoly system in which both parties are bought and sold to the highest corporate bidder.

Tim Teeman writes: Has [Vidal] met Obama? “No,” he says quietly, “I’ve had my time with presidents.” Vidal raises his fingers to signify a gun and mutters: “Bang bang.” He is referring to the possibility of Obama being assassinated. “Just a mysterious lone gunman lurking in the shadows of the capital,” he says in a wry, dreamy way.