I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
From Gore Vidal
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
Certainly 'The Judgment of Paris' was the novel in which I found my own voice.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I've always been very pro-African-American - or whatever phrase we now use.
Does one ever read a politician's books?
My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.
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