30 septembre 2009<\/a>. Tout ce qu’il dit de l’Am\u00e9rique, dans la situation pr\u00e9sente n’est pas \u00e9vident et certaines choses sont discutables. Son degr\u00e9 de d\u00e9sesp\u00e9rance se mesure au fait qu’il regrette l’Am\u00e9rique d’antan, alors qu’il a peint cette Am\u00e9rique-l\u00e0 et minutieusement d\u00e9crit combien la corruption, la perversit\u00e9 \u00e9taient l\u00e0, pr\u00e9sentes \u00e0 l’origine. Mais sans doute a-t-il raison lorsqu’il regrette le degr\u00e9 d’intelligence qui caract\u00e9risait m\u00eame ces situations pass\u00e9es, tant il est vrai que ce que caract\u00e9rise notre temps est bien la b\u00eatise \u00e0 front de taureau, o\u00f9 m\u00eame les escrocs sont d’abord des imb\u00e9ciles inconscients. Le portrait que Vidal fait d’Obama, qu’il a soutenu parce qu’il avait reconnu en lui la raret\u00e9 pr\u00e9sente d’un homme d’une exceptionnelle intelligence, est assez juste, moins peut-\u00eatre les raisons qu’il donne \u00e0 son \u00e9chec probable (son inexp\u00e9rience en politique ext\u00e9rieure, sa na\u00efvet\u00e9 face aux g\u00e9n\u00e9raux). Il est plus \u00e9vident d’avancer l’hypoth\u00e8se que, contre le syst\u00e8me, m\u00eame l’exp\u00e9rience en politique ext\u00e9rieure et la connaissance de la duplicit\u00e9 des g\u00e9n\u00e9raux, en plus de l’intelligence, ne changeraient rien, et qu’\u00e0 moins de poser un acte de rupture \u00e0 la Gorbatchev au cur du syst\u00e8me, rien n’y fera. Ce qu’il dit d’Hillary Clinton est \u00e9galement discutable, de ce point de vue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tMais c’est bien le ton qui fait la chanson Ton cr\u00e9pusculaire, sans aucun doute, non pas \u00e0 cause de l’esprit du vieil homme, mais parce que l’Am\u00e9rique est \u00e0 son cr\u00e9puscule. Obama sera battu en 2012 annonce-t-il, et les r\u00e9publicains voleront l’\u00e9lection une fois de plus. Au-del\u00e0? S’il y a un au-del\u00e0, si m\u00eame on arrive en 2012 Voici le passage o\u00f9 Gore Vidal parle de la situation politique pr\u00e9sente des USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abLast year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How’s Obama doing? Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He’s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism. America should leave Afghanistan, he says. We’ve failed in every other aspect of our effort of conquering the Middle East or whatever you want to call it. The War on Terror was made up, Vidal says. The whole thing was PR, just like weapons of mass destruction’. It has wrecked the airline business, which my father founded in the 1930s. He’d be cutting his wrists. Now when you fly you’re both scared to death and bored to death, a most disagreeable combination.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHis voice strengthens. One thing I have hated all my life are LIARS<\/em> [he says that with bristling anger<\/em>] 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. The media is too supine? Would that it was. They’re busy preparing us for an Iranian war. He retains some optimism about Obama because he doesn’t lie. We know the fool from Arizona<\/em> [as he calls John McCain<\/em>] is a liar. We never got the real story of how McCain crashed his plane<\/em> [in 1967 near Hanoi, North Vietnam<\/em>] and was held captive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbVidal originally became pro-Obama because he grew up in a black city (meaning Washington), as well as being impressed by Obama’s intelligence. But he believes the generals. Even Bush knew the way to win a general was to give him another star. Obama believes the Republican Party is a party when in fact it’s a mindset, like Hitler Youth, based on hatred religious hatred, racial hatred. When you foreigners hear the word conservative’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not, they’re fascists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnother notable Obama mis-step has been on healthcare reform. He f***ed it up. I don’t know how because the country wanted it. We’ll never see it happen. As for his wider vision: Maybe he doesn’t have one, not to imply he is a fraud. He loves quoting Lincoln and there’s a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. I am President of the United States. I have full overall power and never forget it, because I will exercise it’. That’s what Obama needs a bit of Lincoln’s chill. Has he 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbVidal now believes, as he did originally, Clinton would be the better president. Hillary knows more about the world and what to do with the generals. History has proven when the girls get involved, they’re good at it. Elizabeth I knew Raleigh would be a good man to give a ship to.The Republicans will win the next election, Vidal believes; though for him there is little difference between the parties. Remember the coup d’etat of 2000 when the Supreme Court fixed the selection, not election, of the stupidest man in the country, Mr Bush.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 2 octobre 2009 \u00e0 05H25<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’\u00e9crivain am\u00e9ricain Gore Vidal est vieux (83 ans), handicap\u00e9 en partie par un genou artificiel, toujours attentif \u00e0 l’\u00e9volution de son pays qui est l’un des th\u00e8mes essentiels de son uvre De Burr \u00e0 Empire et \u00e0 Hollywood, avec une s\u00e9rie de livres qui couvre toute l’histoire des USA, essentiellement au travers des actes, pens\u00e9es… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8731,3858,7528,3342,5959,8732,2804,1375],"class_list":["post-71129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-amertume","tag-corruption","tag-desespoir","tag-gore","tag-historien","tag-pourriture","tag-usa","tag-vidal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}