Top political strategist Woody Allen thinks Obama would get much more done as dictator; No, really

The notorious and formerly funny movie director Woody Allen is apparently frustrated with the cumbersome operations of American democracy too.

The one-time-father-now-husband-of-his-daughter tells the Spanish-language magazine La Vanguardia that the United States' Democratic Smoker-in-Chief could accomplish a whole lot more from his White House if he didn't have so many disorderly, annoying people objecting, distracting and criticizing him all the time.

Such social messiness has been known to occur in functioning democracies, even cinematic ones, although less often on celebrity-strewn movie sets under the direction of a dictatorial director.

"It would be good...if (Obama) could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly," Allen is quoted as saying.

Allen is also said to have said:

I am pleased with Obama. I think he is brilliant. The Republican Party should get out of his way and stop trying to hurt him.

With healthcare and the economy now fully fixed, no doubt one area in urgent need of sweeping Obama-style reforms would be targeting movie reviewers who write negatively about Hollywood. Or about its politician favorites.

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Comments

[Frank Russo]

You are a farking MORON WOODY. Dictators never give up power they only grab for more. Actors should sing and dance for our entertainment and not comment on political issues that will affect the common people more so than the rich who live in their ivory towers.

[Average man]

Woddy Allen is still ALIVE? I thought he had died. Bummer.

[wayne furr]

Hey Woody! Just because you aren't a practicing Jew doesn't make you non-Jewish! And you know the history of what happens to Jews under a dictatorship, don't you? What the heck is wrong with you?

[BobJ]

Allen is a kook. Nothing but a washed-up, liberal kook who should just go to pasture already. Don't let him near your young children either, as he's also a molester! Hollywood has gone down the tubes...

[Zebranky]

Remember, this is coming from the man who essentially married and had kids with his own, albeit, adopted daughter...

[chris]

There's no doubt that ANY president could get MORE done more efficiently if they had dictatorial powers - Republican or Democrat. However, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Suspension of Constitutional rights and provisions for the sake of "efficiency" would invalidate the entire Constitution, leaving us with a form of government that no longer has an obligation to protect the citizenry.

[Nemo]

What do these two-bit actors know about running a country anyway? Who do these trailer park trash think they are? El Presidente has far too much leeway as it is. He's bent on the complete and utter destruction of America!

[Lee]

John Wayne once said "Life is Hard, but it's harder when you are stupid"

Woody, you are stupid and you can't fix stupid.

[Don]

Over the years he's been touted as a genius comedian, he's no genius--he's not even smart, and I am hard pressed to say I've laughed once at anything he's ever done. He's just a weak, stuttering imbecile. I'm surprised he doesn't drool on himself--although maybe he has "people" who clean up after him. Bring back the House Committee on Un-American Activities!

[PrinceOfSnides]

The people get the government they deserve?

But isn;t this what all good Obamites really want? The want the tyranical ruler to put down his enemies so he can be king.

[Lare]

Woody Allen is a light weight. Stick to moving making; not public policy.

[Edward]

From the movie, "The Shooter," his "moral compass is so messed up (my clean up), we will be surprised if he can find his car in the parking lot." -- paraphrased.

Woody Allen has shown time and time again that he has lost any reality he may have once owned. So why give him press for any reason?

[twills]

Can someone really be this stupid? Really Woody...Really?

[Nobama]

Wow woody is drinking the kool-aid too?

[carl]

(sigh) I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Kinda like Roseanne Barr singing the National Anthem. Stick a mic in front of a Hollyweird Leftylooloo, and you get this anti-American dribble.

[russell]

Woody Allen is a stupid moron. How can you follow or believe anyone that would molest, then marry his own daughter?

[Carl Richardson]

Woody what is this quote taken from iI believe it would be implicable if that were to happen? " There is only one ruler of the ring and he does not share power." as much as I admire you and you great works stay out of politics.

[Mark]

Thought it said:

If you are under 13 years of age you may read this message board, but be careful Woody doesn't come and get ya!

[c17]

I guess Mr Allen needs to go back to 9th grade for a refresher in civics and learn that we do not have a democracy, but a representative republic and that this "social messiness" is the order that was designed to prevent one person from holding all the power.

[marcantonio]

Jeez Woody, do a little research. Obama is about as free to make his own choices as a hooker in a stable. The people who surround him are not advisors, they are emissaries and minders who convey his marching orders from on high, and he obeys those orders to the letter, or else.

[Honest John]

Don't think for a second that this isn't the dream scenario of our leftist elitist comrades both within and sycophantic to the Obama regime. Obama's temperment, heavily imbued with narcissism, arrogance and petulance is well suited to assume the role of petty tyrant. It is too bad that we little people cannot recognize the supreme benevolence and competency of Our Dear Leader. To the little people, he seems little more than a twit, albeit a very dangerous one as he and his teleprompter hold the titles of POTUS and TOTUS.

[Randy Danner]

Woody Allen doesn't deserve freedom. I think he has a mental disorder. Obama should be a dictator?!?!? It is this type of thinking that is destroying our republic. Moron.

[Chris in LA]

Woody would do well to shut up and quit standing up in the boat before Mia notices and decides to shake him down for another mil.

[jgdp]

Good-ole woody would get more done if he just died!

[mary]

This is no big surprise, I bet most progressives think this way. WE THE PEOPLE need to shut up and take it.

[Seriously]

Seriouly? Last I checked the democrats were in power and were going it alone. Another wacko as usual. It's always easier for people to blame others then to blame themselves.

[Gearjammer]

What a Idiot Woody Allen is ... this is a guy that has sex with his 16 year old step daughter what a credible jerk off he is

[keyfitter]

Woody Allen is a sick pervert.

[ratdog]

Woody is a demented pedophile. His opinions mean nothing. Woody, get some help and go away!

[Augustus Westes]

It was people with Woody Allen's ideologies who shared responsibility for murdering millions of innocent people.

It is amazing how the "progressive left" as they call themselves have been dropping their "liberal masks" to reveal who they really are...the truth always wins in the end.

Hitler could only exist with big government. Stalin, Mao, and the rest of them could only exist with big government. When will people get their heads out of the sand and realize that bad things happen with large powerful governments.

If they do not have power, they cannot have control. If they cannot have control- we have more freedom. It's not a Republican thing (and certainly isn't a Democrat thing).

Wake up!

[Jeff Maylor]

This isn't just an offhand comment, this is how the elites now think. Woody may be comical (in a way) but he is very much connected to the powerful people in Manhattan and their way of thinking. We have a hostile elite running the country now - that is, a group of elites that are contemptuous of the people and the constitution.

[Alfred Hussein Neuman]

What a freak of nature.

[Matt]

How can someone so easily be willing to give dictorial power to anyone? Reverse that statement Woody. "It would be good...if (Bush) could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly," Allen is quoted as saying. Allen is also said to have said: "I am pleased with Bush. I think he is brilliant. The Democratic Party should get out of his way and stop trying to hurt him." Do you hear how incredibly threatening that sounds? Stick with film making Woody, that's the path meant for you. Not politics.

[Marty]

I truly believe that President Obama absolutely has the working class as a priorty in his agenda. Funny how so many working people are brainwashed by the elite wealthy who do nothing more then abuse the weak for their financial gain. Wether it is setting up business in Communist China supporting their ideas by increasing their GDP in unfair trade or just for the fact of cheap labor working in unsafe conditions with no enviormental regulations or workmans compensation. I believe that this Pr esident and his staff are 100% behind building up the middle class and their foes press for revolution through their irresponsible agenda. How did BP put it into words when the oil well was needed to be pluged. WE Just don't do it that way here. And Looked what happened. Worst oil distaster above the Exxon Valdez. Just to save a buck and they made Billions of dollars in profits last year.

Again revolution is in the air and all it will take is for the shot to be heard around the world again.

[Hoofie of Falls]

Uh-Huh. Brilliant, Woody. Completely thought out.

[Joe]

"It would be good...if (Obama) could be dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly," Allen is quoted as saying.

Looks like the alzheimer's is setting in.

[Joe W]

Consider the source! What a knuclehead.

[marcel]

This comment should come as no surprise. A large consensus of liberals/democrats think this way. Its kind of a good thing hearing this. This way the chamelion colors 'fall away' when liberals have such representatives.

[Doug Kinton]

Giving more power to Obama would be like giving whiskey and a set of car keys to a teenager.

[Tom Snyder]

Healthcare and the economy are "fully fixed"??????? What planet do you live on? What are you smoking? Allen is a self-righteous, loony mental midget.

[Sarge]

Who cares what this incestuous pedophile thinks?

[wizened one]

Gee, Woody, I can think of another elected top leader (let's call him Chancellor) who got awarded dicatorial powers to do the "right things" for his country (let's call it the Fatherland). That situation ended badly for your fellow Jews, and everybody else in Europe at the time.

[Mike W]

Holy Cow !!! why do you even report what this lunatic is saying. He is as crazy as the socialist demigod he worships. You would be better off walking into a mental ward with a tape recorder then interviewing Woody Allen and then printing it.

[Justin McCarthy]

Woody Allen's attraction for a President with dictatorial powers only highlights Hollywood's disconnect with democracy and naivete when it comes to all things political. It is tragic that the Hollywood crowd can be so influential and yet so misunderstand the nature of power and its ultimate misuse. And, yet they are the first to be rounded up and sent to the camps while screaming, "Who took my rights" after their own efforts unleashed the tyrant.

[George]

Not only is Woody Allen an incestuous pedophile, which I’m sure is more than acceptable behavior within his circle of friends, but he sounds like a freaking certified moron... which is probably a prerequisite to get to be one of his friends.

[Lee]

This guy is nuts. Maybe he should try living under a dictator for a few years and see how he likes it. He must not know that America is a democratic republic where we elect representatives who represent our interest. If they don't we throw them out (like now.) He is an actor hes good at playing make believe and doesn't live in the real world with the rest of us.

[XKarenX]

Great post, Mr. Malcolm.

[keith klimzak]

Woody Allen the pedophile, is a idiot. He represents the problem in America today.

[GavinInTucson]

Just when I thought Hollywood "elites" couldn't be any more ridiculous, one of them opens their mouth and forces me to raise the bar.

[C. DiSalvo]

This tells you how far down American politics have sunk down into the gutter. From a lamb to a dragon just as prophecy predicted. This man is considered well educated in politics and no doubt some do take him seriously. Still, this is not something new for the desires running rampant behind closed doors in D.C. Allen simply voiced them openly like he usually does. After all, he doesn't care to hide his strange ways. What else would one expect from a man who is married to his very own daughter. A mind this possessed of Satan will naturally embrace all that prophecy declares Satan desires in our day