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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: zeitgeist on October 29, 2012, 06:27:42 PM
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DUmmies must be despondant when reading this stuff. Sniff, oh no, not Oliver Stone, sniff.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82993.html?hp=r6
By KATIE GLUECK | 10/29/12 7:14 AM EDT
A new book from filmmaker Oliver Stone offers a scathing critique of President Barack Obama’s time in office.
Stone, who wrote “The Untold History of the United States†with historian Peter Kuznick, puts forth a liberal interpretation of American history from the turn of the last century to present day. The 618-page book, slated for release Tuesday - a week before Election Day - from Gallery Books, slams Republicans and Democrats alike, and the authors’ assessment of Obama’s presidency is tinged with disappointment.
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Stone said in 2008 that he backed Obama, but earlier this year said that he would support GOP Rep. Ron Paul over Obama if he could.
The biting criticism from Stone and Kuznick includes:
On Wall Street reform: “The biggest winner under Obama was Wall Street.â€
On health care: “Obama’s failure to articulate a progressive vision was also apparent in the fight over health reform, which was to have been his signature initiative…Obama’s health care reform effort, marked by the inability to even refute Republican charges of death panels, was so unpopular that it became an albatross around the necks of Democrats in the 2010 election.â€
On a troop surge in Afghanistan: “When it finally came down to decision time, Obama didn’t have the courage or integrity of a post-Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy. He settled on a 30,000-troop increase, giving the military leaders almost everything they wanted and more than they expected.â€
On civil liberties: “Among the greatest disappointments to his followers was Obama’s refusal to roll back the expanding national security state that so egregiously encroached on American civil liberties.â€
On ‘imperialism’: “[He] was not offering a decisive break with over a century of imperial conquest. His was a centrist approach to better managing the American empire rather than advancing a positive role for the United States in a rapidly evolving world.â€
On defense spending: “While cutting defense spending, pulling combat forces out of Iraq and beginning the drawdown in Afghanistan represented a welcome retreat from they hypermilitarism of the Bush-Cheney years, they did not represent the sharp and definitive break with empire that the world needed to see from the United States.â€
Like watching a dam break. Run DUmmies, run away, it's breaking.
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He's still voting for Obama along with the rest of the Marxist cultists.
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Just another Hollyweird sheep
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the biggest conspiracy theorist in hollywood wants to vote for Ron Paul, thats hard to believe
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the biggest conspiracy theorist in hollywood wants to vote for Ron Paul, thats hard to believe
Great point. Hardly anyone else noticed that. Ronulans Uninte may be the next Oliver Stoned Blockbuster Tale! :cheersmate:
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On a troop surge in Afghanistan: “When it finally came down to decision time, Obama didn’t have the courage or integrity of a post-Cuban Missile Crisis John F. Kennedy. He settled on a 30,000-troop increase, giving the military leaders almost everything they wanted and more than they expected.â€
Or actually, just 3/4 of what they though was the minimum necessary even without the handicap of a set withdrawal date, so he could claim "Hey, I did all I could," when the mission ultimately ends in a debacle.
Stone's a fool. This book should cement that for anyone who had any lingering doubts (Although one has to wonder how there could be any such, at this point).
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Oliver Stone is an idiot. He is a die hard leftist and would vote for obama to be the dictator of the world. No matter what he says on the contrary.