Gore Vidal Quotes
Everything the Bushites touch is screwed up.
Gore Vidal, 1925 – 2012, Author & Unsuccessful Candidate for Congress, May 2007
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The administration of George W. Bush was the most unpopular in American history amongst most of the countries of the world. By the end of his second term, Bush himself was the most unpopular President in America since polls were taken to measure it. However, when Barack Obama went to Berlin, as a senator and presidential candidate he was very warmly received with a crowd of over 200,000 Germans turning out in Berlin to hear his speech.
George W. Bush had become very unpopular and many politicians were trying to distance themselves from him, his policies, and the poor implementation of those policies. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat, had just lost his own primary election and was attacked because he advocated support of the American president in war and foreign policy.
Despite Hooker's outspoken remarks, the President appointed him commanding general anyway.
Congressman and later President, George
Describing President George W. Bush at a Cabinet Meeting
Bush had been allowed to join the Texas Air National Guard which meant that he did not have to serve in combat in Vietnam the way most other men his age did. However, there were no records of his having reported for duty during several months when he was to be in service. Bush claimed that he was on duty and there was no action taken against him by the then authorities which detractors attribute to his father’s high position and supporters refer to as evidence of the fact that he did nothing wrong. He had been arrested for drunk driving, and the WMD dispute has ever since raged of whether he had been honestly misled by bad intelligence. Bush was not a functional illiterate but had been a college graduate and had completed graduate school studies. He was a poor public speaker and was not an intellectually curious man and did not read much, but this was a huge exaggeration.
See {618460} for the kinds of statements that stimulated this type of political attack.
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, patrician manner, and polished style of writing. Vidal was openly bisexual and his novels often dealt with LGBT characters, which was unusual at the time. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the United States House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California).
