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Top political strategist Woody Allen thinks Obama

would get much more done as dictator; No, really
May 18, 2010 |  2:22 am

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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