At one point in the Oliver Stone film, “W,” Josh Brolin as George W. Bush tells his father who’s either bailing him out of jail or extricating him from corners he’s painted himself into, “I’m not dumb. I used a condom.” Of course later we find that George W. has gotten a girl pregnant and dad arranges for the abortion.

That one scene pretty much articulates the presidency of George W. Bush who wouldn’t be president if for not another telling moment in the picture when dad, in a rage, tosses the fact about how he got W’s ass out of a sling in Florida. Meaning, if you watched another film titled Recount, you’d realize that George W. would never have been president to begin with if not for a lot of string pulling and chicanery.

It doesn’t take much urging to realize we’ve had a bunch of dopes and glazed eyed true believers [Thandie Newton as a dead-on Condoleeza Rice doesn’t say much but it’s all in the eyes] occupying the White House after watching “W”. All very scary, very Dr. Strangelove and Brolin along with the rest of the cast is phenomenal. And the fact that it’s all happening under our noses even now distinguishes one other frightening moment in the film. George W. is basically asked at a press conference to define his presidency.

Bush is plain flummoxed for an answer and tells the reporter I wish you had given me that question in advance, written down. If that sounds like Sarah Palin telling Katie Couric a similar thing on TV about getting back to her with an answer, it should scare the bejeesus out of you to think we might have another four years of this nonsense.