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− | + | <let name=data index=Topics>\Gore Vidal\Barack Obama\John F. Kennedy\2008 US presidential race\John McCain</let> | |
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− | + | <let name=data index=Title>I knew JFK, says Gore Vidal, and believe me Obama’s the better leader</let> | |
− | {{ | + | <let name=data index=Text>““I never believed in [[John F. Kennedy|Jack]]’s charisma,” [[Gore Vidal|Vidal]] says shortly. JFK, he believes, was “one of our worst presidents”; [[Robert F. Kenney|Bobby]], his brother, was “a phoney, a little Torquemada”; and their father, [[Joseph Kennedy|Joseph]], was “a crook – should have been in jail”. .. So much for Camelot. “But Jack had great charm,” he adds. “So has [[Barack Obama|Obama]]. He’s better educated than Jack. And he’s been a working senator. Jack never went to the office – he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.” ... [Vidal']s views on the man the Democratic candidate will have to beat are even more brutal than his views on Hillary: “''You'' could beat [[John McCain|McCain]]! I’ve never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into ‘war hero’.” .. In his view, McCain is “a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about [[mortgage]]s, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks”.”</let> |
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