I’m not sure what Oliver Stone wants me to think.

After seeing “W”, I, as a viewer, walked away with many different impressions, none of which was very clear in comprehension. The storyline stipulated that the main reason behind George W. Bush’s race for the Texas governor’s office, and later, for the White House was so that he could measure up to his family name. Brother Jeb was always at the front in his father’s eyes and W. wanted to feel like he deserved to be a Bush.

This doesn’t give much credit to the American people. The viewpoint presented in “W” portrayed the current president as a transparent alcoholic whose glory days were under the roof of a fraternity. If his run for the White House was only supported by an underlying desire to belong, the American people sure were stupid. Not only did they elect someone they didn’t know, but they elected someone who was barely competent to do the job. Half the American people can’t possibly be as stupid as this movie makes them out to be. Mr. Stone, do you beg to differ?

I don’t know George W. Bush. Like you, I’ve only seen the image fed to us by Karl Rove and the wily news team at FOX. What I do know, however, is that this movie unleashed a can of worms. While the ending might have seemed incomplete and stilted, the rest of the movie’s subliminal messages made themselves loudly known.

How do you feel about this? Did the movie just officially dupe all of America the easiest group of people to lie to, or was it a satirical depiction of a fuzzy-headed boy who couldn’t articulate the problem of illiteracy to the media?