Oliver Stone is the producer of the Showtime television series and book entitled The Untold History of the United States. He recently sat down for an interview with RT which aired on December 28. He commented on Barack Obama this way:
“I think under the disguise of sheep’s clothing he has been a wolf. That’s because of the nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him, people forgave him a lot. He was a great hope for change. The color of his skin, the upbringing, the internationalism, the globalism, seemed all evident. And he is an intelligent man. He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them. That is what is sad. So we are going into the second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the law and foundations of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer, you know. Without the law, it is the law of the jungle. Nuremburg existed for a reason and there was a reason to have trials, there is a reason for due process – ‘habeas corpus’ as they call it in the United States.”
Left wing historian Peter Kuznick, also appearing in the interview, said this:
And the other side of what you are asking is about the constraints upon political discourse in this country. Why are people so uninformed? That is what we are to deal with in the series. If people don’t understand their history, then they don’t have any vision of the future and what is possible. If they think what exists now – the tyranny of now – is all that is possible, then they can’t dream about the future. They can’t imagine the future that is different from the present. That is what I am saying – people have to understand the past because if you study the past then you can envision a future that is very different.
Make no mistake about it, both of these guys are avowed leftists. You can read the entire interview here and see what I mean. Mr. Stone is not known for historical accuracy. His movie credits include cinematic docudramas such as Nixon and JFK, both of which he acknowledges play fast and loose with the truth. Other movie credits include Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, Platoon and Reversal of Fortune which is one of my personal favorite movies. He has been described as by the British publication The Guardian as “one of the few committed men of the left working in American cinema.”
Here is a dirty little secret about those whose politics are firmly planted in the right and those planted firmly in the left. There is more in common than one would think. There is a strong libertarian streak on both sides…and it is that libertarian streak that is uniquely American. Both sides are deeply afraid of an intrusive government and value our individual liberty and privacy. We value rule of law. We understand that without it, there is either dictatorship or anarchy. And more importantly, we value honest discourse. That is the American tradition.
Mr. Stone has finally stumbled across the truth. Although he is coming from a different direction than folks like me, he has finally come to the ultimate conclusion about Barack Obama…he is a liar with an agenda that is anathema to both the right and left. And he is not afraid to use an Imperial Presidency whose antics have far surpassed those of Richard Nixon. He has hidden his true agenda from the public and has fooled everyone. Even those on the left are beginning to sense there is a problem here.
It is ironic that as the interview was being done, Obama’s EPA Chief, Lisa Jackson, resigned. She used the usual excuse of spending more time with her family, but the true motivation is she was caught using secret and/or alias screen names to conduct government business circumventing the Freedom of Information Act. We know of at least 12,000 emails. There are probably more with still more alias email accounts. What are they hiding…perhaps ways to circumvent the Congressional rejection of Cap and Trade or submitting the United States to the whims of the United Nations? Who knows? We will find out.
Although the focus of Oliver Stone’s concerns is somewhat different than mine, his concern about privacy is close to the top of my list with maybe a different nuance. On the other hand, he and I agree 100% on one thing, Barack Obama is a liar. Behind that winning grin is something else. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Those of us on the right know what his fundamental change to America is. Oliver Stone, and those like him on the left, are just now discovering that traditional liberal American values are also under attack. That’s a really scary thing.
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