Go see it!

Watched Fahrenheit 9/11 last night, and although I take a skeptical take on Michael Moore's outlook on things, I strongly recommend this film because it makes both Bush Junior and Papa Bush look pretty darn silly. It's pretty amazing to think about, but it's been twelve years since we saw the last President Bush make a desperate, unsuccessful attempt to keep his job. Now, perhaps we're seeing another one. I first realized to myself during the 1992 election-it was my first year in college when I experienced one of my early political awakenings- that George Bush the President as we knew him did not really exist. He just didn't seem real, especially compared with Bill Clinton, who could play the sax and relate to us on the tube more than his opponent. I never viewed the elder George Bush as really anything but a plastic politician, but this film suggests that behind the veneer of his nervous politiking lies something much more nefarious and self-serving, a relationship with a government that literally gave birth to America's foremost enemy, Osama bin Laden, and other terrorists.

The film documents the family's Saudi connections and suggests a greater loyalty with the billionaire investors supporting the Carlsyle Group than with the United States of America. It's an interesting conclusion largely supported by interviews with the author of the House of Bush The House of Saud. It's good to take it at face value and ignore some of Moore's off camera wanderings; he's been forever discredited in my opinion as an arbiter of good taste by his sad portrayal of Charlton Heston in B for C. However, these are pretty desperate times and we need a filmmaker like Moore to remove the smokescreen that clouds people's vision and makes people defend Bush as a champion of American values. According to this film, Bush Sr. and Jr. both represent themselves and their investors, not America-it's the main thrust of the film in my opinion, and the part that resonated for me is the camera shot of George Senior conmingling with the Saudis. God, and they called Clinton Slick Willy. A name, perhaps more appropriate for the kings of the oil slick.

Maybe it will change people's minds. I don't know. We can only hope and work our best to make others see it.