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Bush Derangement Syndrome: Oliver Stone's Stupid Hatchet Job on Bush

Posted by Tom Snyder on Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:03:30 AM
By Dr. Tom Snyder

W. shows lefty filmmaker Oliver Stone returning to his evil roots after making the wonderful WORLD TRADE CENTER. There are plenty of reasonable, perhaps even good, reasons to criticize President George W. Bush on his policies and performance from a conservative or practical viewpoint without resorting to this kind of stupid, unrealistic, obnoxious, and unbelievably biased mockery of a sitting president. Those expecting a serious historical drama will be gravely disappointed, because W. is actually an over-the-top satire that teaches little or no truth, much less any profound insights into politics and history.

Basically, the movie opens in 2002 with a satirical look at a White House discussion concerning the President’s use of the term “Axis of Evil” in a major speech that year. The movie cuts back to his wild fraternity days in undergraduate college at Yale. From there, the movie takes Bush through conflicts with his father, who became the 41st president in 1989, his drinking, the meeting with Laura his future wife, his failed run for Congress, his commitment to Jesus Christ with a Texas pastor, the work he did on his father’s two campaigns for president, and his decision to run for governor of Texas. Interspersed with this biography are scenes featuring the mistakes Bush and his administration made in Iraq.

In almost every scene, the movie makes these historical events, and President Bush, look as bad and stupid as they possibly can. The performances of almost every one, especially Bush, Secretary of State Condi Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks, are performed like stupid caricatures. Even some re-creations of Bush’s speeches are meant to look worse or sillier than they actually were! Of course, the movie ignores the stirring parts of Bush’s speeches, especially his early ones after 9/11. It also ignores the recent success in Iraq after Bush decided to okay the surge in American troop levels. Nor does the movie mention how Bush’s tax cuts turned the economy around in 2002-2006, or his great success in crippling Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist group, Al Qaeda, in both Iraq and around the world. The movie also conveniently omits the many times when British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave a rousing defense of the Iraq War and Bush’s policies. Instead, the movie only has one scene at Camp David where a compliant, milquetoast Blair mildly questions Bush on Iraq.

Although the movie contains one positive scene where Bush gets help from a caring Christian pastor, other scenes mock Bush’s faith. Most of these scenes involve silent prayers that Bush does at the end of several meetings with his staff. There is a later scene, however, where the movie mocks a cross engraved on the pastor’s belt buckle when he comes to see Bush when Bush was governor of Texas.

Finally, W. fails to present any insights into President Bush’s socio-political philosophy that arguably makes him one of the most politically schizophrenic conservative/liberal leaders in American history. Instead, the movie reduces everything to silly psychobabble about possible conflicts between Bush and his father. This is not just stupid, it’s actually rather shallow and cliché.

Only an ignorant and hateful liberal and radical leftist, or an ignorant, uninformed American citizen, would believe or like this obviously ridiculous and inane, over-the-top hatchet job! Oliver Stone clearly doesn’t want the United States and its troops to achieve victory in Iraq, and maybe even in the War on Terror.

Left-wing tyrants in the mass media are pulling out all the stops to give the Democrats a leg up in this upcoming election. If the American people continue to accept this mindless, biased left-wing tilt so docilely, then they will deserve the coming liberal, anti-Christian tyranny they may be getting.

 

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McCain Blames Dems for Economic Collapse

Posted by Tom Snyder on Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:00:00 AM

By Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor

Sen. John McCain last week blamed Sen. Barack Obama and his Democratic “cronies” in Congress for lighting the match that started the economic collapse in America, including the current stock market crash, the current credit crunch and the failure of America’s banking system. 

McCain pointed out in his second debate with Obama that Obama and Democrats like Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Mass.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-NY) blocked attempts by he and other Republicans to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage institutions in the country.

Backed by the government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are “government sponsored enterprises” or GSE’s.

McCain noted that Dodd and Frank, who currently head the banking and finance committees in the Senate and the House of Representatives, helped stop Republican reforms in 2005. They have also been accused of stopping reforms pushed by Republican President George W. Bush and his administration in 2003.

McCain also noted that Obama got the second highest amount of campaign donations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “in history” (Sen. Dodd got the highest).

This week, Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona attacked Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York as another influential Democrat who stopped Republican reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Republicans like McCain and Kyl have complained that the Democrats supported irresponsible fiscal policies at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of giving cheap mortgage loans to poor people who couldn’t pay them and then selling the bad mortgage loans as securities to other financial institutions to pad Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s income. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s policies also encouraged other, private, financial institutions of doing the same thing.

McCain said Tuesday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lit the fuse that caused the current massive financial crisis, banking failures and credit crunch, affecting small businesses that need to borrow money periodically to pay their employees before sales revenue arrives.

Obama responded that he warned about the problem in a letter, but Frank accused the Republicans of being racist because many of the loans went to poor blacks and Hispanics, including illegal immigrants.

In 2003, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters of California said the system at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “wasn’t broke.”

President Bill Clinton recently admitted that the Democrats resisted Republican efforts to tighten the federal government’s oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Fannie Mae was created by Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938 as part of his socialist “New Deal” programs and later expanded by Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson in the late 1960s, Democrat President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and President Bill Clinton in 1999.

Freddie Mac was created in 1970 under Republican President Richard Nixon to stop Fannie Mae from its monopoly of the housing market, but expanded by President Carter in the late 1970s and President Clinton in 1999.

- Sources: Baltimore Sun 08/22/08, Amity Shlaes of Bloomberg.com 09/10/08, New York Times 09/30/99, History News Network 12/08/03, AudacityofHypocrisy.com 09/18/08, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1Wc2NFa3w 09/27/08.


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