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Oliver Stone: “I Find Obama Scary”

“I grew up under Eisenhower,” says Stone, “and it’s gotten scarier because of the Bush and Reagan people and now I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.”

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  • Franklin

    Big deal. And Bill Maher called Obama a deceitful liar, as he followed the 1 with six zeroes on his contribution check.
    Of course, the JFK conspiracy theorist had to get the Bush chin jab in there. Such a pity too. Ollie’s world would have been so much better if John and Bobby were still Marilyn-banging and marijuana-bonging instead of us suffering through the succeeding family-man fakers. What? You think I’m a W supporter? Hardly. I just don’t like cheap piling-on after the tackle was already finished. The meltdown– err, sorry, meltdowns have occurred with regularity for over a century. And to imagine that the frat boy from Texas singlehandedly caused a fall by trusting Barney and company is to ignore the vast, sad trend of anti-liberty and money manipulation that has fed the monster, no pun intended.
    But with the empty-headed and ironically empty-empathetic left, dead soldiers and dead foreigners deserve nothing more than a pursed-lip frown, especially since, as Kuznick opines, the Big O has a good heart. Well, I’m sure it’s in there somewhere.
    Stone and Kuznick get no points. None. I’ve no tolerance for statist hacks who pretend they’re not.
    Somehow I doubt their “history” film would be mistaken for a scholarly and detailed Woods-ian political wake-up call.

  • Frank M

    Back in January, I remember Stone saying he would vote for Ron Paul over President Obama. Maybe when we find Obama’s suspected heart we’ll find Oliver’s brain too, since there’s now evidence it exists.

  • Franklin

    If this is the case, Frank, I’m quite astonished, but it would be a welcome surprise. Thanks. I’ll see if I can dig up his comments and sudden epiphany.

  • Frank M

    Franklin, while I don’t know Oliver Stone personally, I do have a pretty close friend who is Stone’s age and was a radical lefty reporter for an East Coast newspaper when I was still a little kid. We worked on a project together last year and talked a lot about the political and economic mess. After a couple of weeks, this NPR-listening-to, Times-reading, government-should-solve-everything, pinko yippie commie, actually asked me to get him a Ron Paul bumper-sticker. Now, he reads Reason Magazine. It *can* happen. I hope it did for Stone too.

  • dennis

    Stone’s comment about Obama’s “heart” probably had more to do with tribal affinity than anything else. I imagine that Obama or Bush or Romney or most of them would be absolutely fine people absent the lure of power, but what Stone fails to recognize is that Obama’s drone assassinations are completely consistent with his Left-Statist worldview. When members of the political class imagine that they are the source of weal and woe, preserving and expanding that power becomes their prime objective. Barack Obama, like most men is corruptible, but his ideological inclinations make him even more prone to using his power in frightening ways.

  • Concrete man

    Stone is very interesting, made some great movies, to be sure. JFK is an alltime great. What is even more interesting that JFK movie is total propaganda. Not that Oswald did it, but that Arnon Milchan, one of Israel’s biggest arms dealers involved with the top Zionists and nuclear weapons development, produced JFK the movie. Note that the film does not adopt which is the most convincing thesis to date, that Jewish Power played the decisive role in blowing his brains onto the pavement. Ridicule and dismiss if you like, but the circumstantial evidence is irrefutable, and voluminous. See: Michael Collins Piper, Final Judgment.

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