I did see The Right Stuff, which was an excellent movie, btw. Phillip Kaufman was great as director, and the cast is wonderful. The script is dripping with humor, sarcasm and just plain good old Americanism:)
Wolfe is a GREAT American writer with very interesting, funny, thoughtful essays and novels.
But, the reason for this post... The Guardian interviewed him, and asked about his views on alot of stuff, including the election. This is the actual article. Below is an excerpt...
"I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East-coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment. Support for Bush is about resentment in the so-called 'red states' - a confusing term to Guardian readers, I agree - which here means, literally, middle America. I come from one of those states myself, Virginia. It's the same resentment, indeed, as that against your own newspaper when it sent emails targeting individuals in an American county." Wolfe laughs as he chastises. "No one cares to have outsiders or foreigners butting into their affairs. I'm sure that even many of those Iraqis who were cheering the fall of Saddam now object to our being there. As I said, I do not think the excursion is going well."
And John Kerry? "He is a man no one should worry about, because he has no beliefs at all. He is not going to introduce some manic radical plan, because he is poll-driven, and it is therefore impossible to know where or for what he stands."
And another sample on whether he would rather live in a "red state" than in New York...
"I do think that if you are not having a fight with somebody, then you are not sure whether you are alive when you wake up in the morning."
Always interesting... have to read a novel...
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