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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Marina Hyde

Voight - the political thinker of our age?

To the Washington Times, where Jon Voight has broken another of his silences on the US election -- in an op-ed piece the critics are calling his finest work since he phoned in his performance as the US defence secretary in Transformers last year. God, more than any other actor in the picture, he made Lost in Showbiz realise how vital it was that Megatron should never possess the AllSpark. And he brings that same fervour to the argument that Barack Obama should never possess the presidency.

Having explained that Obama is running as Louis Farrakhan's enabler, and trying to "program" young American minds to turn commie, the entertainer sets out his stall as one of the foremost political thinkers of our age -- and indeed the age in which he was last relevant. He blames liberals for Vietnam. "Did they stop the war," he asks, "or did they bring the war to those innocent people?"

Something for us all to ponder.

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