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

[sixpacktr]

The incest must have addled his brain. This moron should just pack up and leave. What a disgraceful piece of garbage...

[cmunit]

Woody Allen, another idiot. Seems he would fit perfectly well in the United States Congress that is mostly anti America.

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[Tom]

The very definition of a 'useful idiot'

[RPM]

Not only has Woody lost his humor, he has now proven that he has lost his marbles as well. If you love dictatorships so much, head on over to Cuba, Venezuela or N. Korea.

[Someone]

Wow. I mean, wow. Do these people even listen to what comes out of their mouths anymore? You'd think that someone of Jewish heritage would be especially concerned about dictatorship, given the merciless treatment of Jews by European dictators over the years.

[Rebecca]

Wow, isn't it annoying when those darn individual rights get in the way?

[trigger]

what a stupid fool.

[Robert Exton]

Mr. Allen's statement is just pitiful. I guess he forgot that Hitler and the NAZI's were very efficient.

[kf]

Holy Crap! Are you kidding?!?
If you like living under dictators, PLEASE move somewhere else where you can get your fill! Thank goodness it is only a rich, hollywood elitist, entertainer spouting this and not someone who matters. Good Grief!
And since when is Woody Allen a "top political strategist?" Puh-leeze. He may appeal to people artistically (though I have never liked his films myself I can't argue his success) but he is NOT a likely source for real world assessments.

[John McEtire]

LOL, Woody Allen...You are formally invited to live in Venezuela with Comrade Chavez. He is a dictator thug and seems to be getting things done without people getting in his way...you are a Tool Woody, and your films suck.

BTW, Comrade Obama hasn't been letting the constitution get in his way of getting things done to date...

[C_Jay]

Is there a dumber man in all of America?

[miguel fernando haraldo corona]

yea didnt he marry his daughter? i wouldn't take ANYTHING this freak says seriously!

[IndyinAL]

If there was ever proof that Hollywood types should stay out of politics, this is it...DUMBEST comment ever...and if Obama is Dictator with the private army he says is needed (NOT a misquote, google it from his Presidential campaign) we will never be free of him..never..he already thinks he knows more than any of us, is already talking about the evils of too much information...and this is what the so called intellectuals thinks is best anyway..to take care of all of us who just don't know any better, just think if someone had suggested such a blatant breach of the Constitution under Bush...Holy Moley...shock and awe is what I feel right now that any American could ever say such a thing....

[toughteach]

This is the same man who had an affair with his adopeted daughter, makes really stupid movies , looks like something from outer space and now proves his insanity by making this statement. Good Grief Woody go lay down in the corner and die will you.

[Kevin Stowell]

We get it, Woody! In addition to being a pedophile, you're an idiot, although I've always kinda figured the two went together. Don't you have a step-daughter to rape or something?

[John Smart]

Woody Allen is a first class idiot. Let's listen to someone that failed out of CITY COLLEGE. A trained monkey could pass city college. I think those kids that beat the crap out of you at summer camp all those years ago knocked something loose. Please kill yourself if you are reading this woody, you dumbass.

[Cebes]

Does anyone listen to this schmuck? Dictator? How soon they forget about ovens.

[DB Cooper]

Woody Allen is a depraved soul, the world has know for years the this man is mentally ill. Now he wants to give a Socialist/Marksist/Facist, total power over an entire country. If only 1% of the people make a stand, that is over 3 million pissed off armed to the teeth gorilla fighters. I don't think you want to go there woodhead.

[xracerx]

Ah Woody Allen... one of the useful idiots that would have helped build the gas chambers & ovens of Auschwitz.

[WoodenheadAllen]

It says it all when someone thinks a dummy is smart. Obama is only smart when compared to someone who is dumber than he is. Maybe Allen wishes he could read lines like the pres.

[disillusioned huh]

here we go...

[woody "the wood" pecker]

LOL! Another do as I say not as I do idiot!! Millionaires should just stay out of politics. The middle class pays taxes and should have a say, repub or dem. Millionaires hide their money, but want everyone else to work towards a utopia. So silly!

[Someone who is awake]

So does Woody Allen like his politics as tainted as his sexual relationship with his step-daughter?

I'm assuming that living in an area surrounded by marijuana shops that you must be awful high to think Obama has fixed or improved anything.

I'm still trying to figure out how you can be the first black president when your biological mother is white?

We can only hope that enough Independents not only run but get elected starting this year and in 2012. Let's get rid of this two-party systems that has corrupted this great country.

Oh yeah, just because Woody Allen has daily access to a microphone, it doesn't mean he has anything intellectual to say.

[what?]

woody allen has every right to say and think what he wishes. i certainly do not agree with a single word of this statement. but, thank god and the millions who have fought for that right.

[danfromatlanta]

I would guess that Woody Allen would not have suggested that the Democratic Socialist People's Worker Party (democrats) ought to have gotten out of Bush's way to get "a lot of good things done".If he wants to live in a dictatorship of the kind intop which the obamanation wants to "transform" our country, I suggest he emmigrate to Cuba, Venezuela, or the PRC. I suppose he would have already by now, except they don't put up with untalented useless idiots that can't speak their languages there.

[Dennis]

Woody Allen acts like an idiot.

There are many countries on this earth that have dictators as presidents, etc.; I believe he would be sitting down to pee if he married his daughter in one of those countries.

[Tony Waxman]

Sure, let Obama become dictator and full blown communism would be underway. Read about Stalin, Mao and Castro and let us know if you agree with that.

[Frank Raymond]

I have no idea which is more stupid...the saying that BO would get more done as a dictator or the mental defective/pedophile individual who made it.

[Rick]

What a Moron - there is nothing else to say.

[samuel l townsend]

This is a very sick person

[BNK]

This is the same guy that married his adopted daughter... I say no more!

[Obama Brown Shirt]

Nothing to see here people, move along. Dear Leader expects more from you next time.

[Kosmo]

And to think I loved this moron for years firing the 70's and 80's. I think he went nutsn after falling in love with his wife's adopted daughter. Too bad, Allen used to make me laugh.

[Charlie November]

One element that makes America great, is the right to free speech, even for complete morons like Anti_American, Woody Allen. You know, I'm just waiting with bated breath for more comments from such an astute political individual .

[Ric]

Huh? Something called the Constitution stands in the way of your utopian nightmare, you communist fink. Have you read the Declaration of Independance? Here is an exerpt, child molester.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Chew on that for awhile, pedofile.

[Some Guy Somewhere in Midwest]

And why are we listening to this has-been? No wonder he's been out of the limelight so long... he's out of his freakin' gourd!

[Bess]

One more reason I don't care what anyone in Hollywood says. Coming from someone who is a "one-time-father-now-husband-of-his-daughter" can anyone take Woody Allen seriously?

[Ryan]

I had to double check the source of this article - I was wondering if this was TheOnion...

Regardless, this type of anti-American sentiment among the completely out of touch with reality Hollywood types is but one reason we have found alternative forms of entertainment than movies.

[APoole]

I love it when these Hollywood people make fools out of themselves. I wonder what would happen if someone actually did what they said?

[Doug]

So, we are wasting band with on drug pickled movie types. This is a great use of the internet. It's bad enough that the cattle of the US voted Barry the messiah into office. Now these pickled pukes are wanting him to have unlimited power. Wake up

[DAVE]

No right-wing nincompoops and left-wing apologists blasting each other yet?

Politics aside, Woody Allen is a smart guy (regardless of what his marital situation is). Obviously, he doesn't literally mean granting Obama dictatorship power, but it's a valid point that Republicans exhaust every "no" before they're willing to pretend like they accept anything Obama does.

Where were these naysayers when bills like the Patriot Act were passed?

[Gordon]

Political comments from an entertainer are about as useful as a screen door in a submarine. Woody Allen, you better take your haldol.

[Robert]

What an idiot.

[citizenserf]

Now that pedophiles are protected from hate crimes woody allen comes out of his little girls closet-wonderful. What would be different if ObowMao was made dictator anyway?

[rjulio]

Who is this idiot? Woody who? Why do you even write a story about something some unknown idiot says about Banana? Who gives a fig.

[bhalsey]

my god what a self absorbed troglodyte ...

[voxdoc]

Allen is an idiot. I used to like his movies.

[infowarrior]

Who listens to this guy anymore? Does he not understand that even though we have a "two party system" all they do is increase governmental powers and take away from the individual. We already have a ONE party system Mr. Allen. No matter who you choose, right or left, it is leading us straight into the slaughterhouse. VOTE THEM ALL OUT. We need a sensible foreign and economic policy, none of which can be obtain from the people currently in power.

[John Q]

Is there no minimum IQ to be a Hollywood/New York entertainer?

[Chris]

The picture chosen of Mr. Allen reminds me of pictures I saw of Hitler speaking, waving his hand. What sad irony.