By Stone Martindale Sep 23, 2007, 2:47 GMT
Best-selling author John Grisham hosted an event Sunday near his home in Charlottesville, Va., for Presidential hopeful New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, and said the current administration is built around "bad people with evil intent" and contends President Bush played politics as thousands died in Iraq, according to the DesMoines Register.
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Grisham shared his thoughts with the Register while discussing his new book, "Playing for Pizza," a fictional account of a Davenport and University of Iowa football player trying to revive a fractured career in Italy.
"The war is an immoral abomination that we'll pay for for decades to come," Grisham said to the The Des Moines Register.
"We're paying for it now at the rate of 100 kids a month while Bush plays politics with it."
Grisham, the many bestsellers including "The Pelican Brief" and "The Firm," said he has supported Democratic candidates before, but not in such a high-profile way.
"This is definitely the most visible thing I've done," he said to the Register.
Grisham shared that he had met the Clintons 15 years ago at the White House.
"I like Hillary. I think she's going to win," Grisham said. "I'm hopeful the Democrats can reclaim the White House. I think it's going to be very hard for the Republicans after this administration to hang on.
"I think she has the best chance to get the nomination."
Grisham pointed to the beginning of the Bush presidency for an example.
"I've always thought that they were bad people with evil intent - and all that, it's playing out now," he said. "You can't hardly look at any aspect of the government in the seven years so far that's been run properly."
The day before his book "Playing for Pizza" is released nationwide, Grisham will moderate discussion at the Clinton event, according to the DesMoines Register.
Grisham's claim to the Register is his deep motivation and concern for what s going onin Washington.
"I can't stand those people - and their incompetence is astounding," he said to the Register. I always thought you could at least depend on the Republican Party to maintain some semblance of fiscal responsibility.
"But they run up record deficits - taking care of billionaires that they want to take care of. Don't get me started on politics. I could go for a long time."
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