'How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?'

[FarCenter]

Friday, September 26, 2008 - Myriam Chaplain-Riou - Agence France Presse


WASHINGTON: It's an "improbable story" about a simple man who somehow becomes the most powerful leader in the world, says American director Oliver Stone about his new movie "W," a biopic of the current US president. Always the provocateur, Stone is due to release the movie on October 17, fewer than three weeks before voters in the United States decide who should collect the keys to the White House from President George W. Bush.

Stone, who at 62 is the same age as Bush, insisted the biopic was "not a hatchet job," contrary to expectations that it will depict the US leader, whose approval ratings have plummeted to historic lows, in a negative light.

"W" is a "fair" portrait, opined Stone, who went to Yale University at the same time as Bush in the mid-1960s, before dropping out to serve in the military during America's ill-fated war in Vietnam.

Instead the director - whose previous films include the political biography "Nixon" and the satire on American violence "Natural Born Killers" - said he wanted to shed some light on the much-maligned Bush's true character and his story.

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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=96311

[snot]

1. He didn't. He became the puppet of the most powerful men.

[dkofos]

2. Never misunderestimate the power of propaganda.

[TomClash]

3. Anyone can make it in America!!!

Even those who hardly deserve it. :beer:

[NNN0LHI]

4. If you have the right daddy that is

[leftofthedial]

5. divine right of birth

into the most aggressively venal and amoral family in American history.

[ladjf]

10. Your use of the phrase "divine right of birth" is very insightful.

I hope that you will expand on this in the future. You might be able to throw some light on his behavior as well as the responses by the voting constituencies to such attitudes.

[Mme. Defarge]

6. The Supreme Court - n/t

[MiniMe]

7. Rich powerful father

[gulliver]

14. Just like McCain. A born nobody handed the rightful place...

...of a self-made, meritorious human being.

If the world were a merit based system, both Bush and McCain would 5 bacons away from anything like real power. They are nothings standing on their daddys' and grand-daddys' shoulders.

[moondust]

8. Well, we had the usual two-year screening process also known as a "campaign."

Voters got to scrutinize the candidates and their positions and talents over an extended period of time and in the end the best candidate won!

:sarcasm:

[UTUSN]

9. The gods play their jests. n/t

[lpbk2713]

11. He was born on third base.

And then the puppeteers moved in and took over.

[Karenina]

12. Affirmative Action

:evilgrin:

[Hekate]

13. Love the answers so far. Keep 'em comin', I need the laughs. nt

[Cleita]

15. Just goes to show what can happen if you sell your soul to the right

supernatural entities.

:evilgrin:

[lligrd]

16. Actually, That Would Be A Very Inspirational Story

if it didn't involve family ties and an anti-American conspiracy.

[samsingh]

17. the people behind the president are clearly the ones in charge

he's just a puppet.

[jazzjunkysue]

18. ""Dad, um, kin ah borrow the keys?"

[Greyhound]

19. Trust fund and the backing of a criminal empire. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

20. The American middle class is selfish, stupid and proud of its

selfishness and stupidity. Such a combination of ignorance and arrogance does not bode well for the health of the body politic.

I have posted elsewhere that I frequently find myself saying under my breath "Thank God for Obama in thsi our hour of need." Obama will be sorely vexed and we do not deserve a leader of his caliber, courage and fortitude. We have truly been blessed, and inexplicably so. If I were religious (and I am not), I would say the hand of God works in mysterious ways.

[Thothmes]

21. Thank the Consititution of the United States and the Electorial College.

[lumpy]

22. Why ? That's easy to answer. Sheep.

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