Trailer: "Death Of A President" - Wow, spots for it are showing on MSNBC

[Hissyspit]

...and it is rather startling to see them. Here is the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqpYe3bmfY

and here is the assasination scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYMJxDDwcc

[yurbud]

1. that was the oddest choice of a subject since Bush's death would have

next to no policy impact apart from a sympathy bump in Republican approval ratings for a few months at most.

A more interesting scenario would have been if Gore had won, then been killed, in which case Lieberman would become president, and we would be exactly where we are today--it just might have taken a bit longer to get here.

Even the attempted assassination of Reagan had more impact than a hypothetical one of Bush would. As Reagan was recovering, Papa Bush was putting him imprimatur on foreign policy and even started running some of the covert ops from the basement, like Iran Contra.

Apart from that, I can't think of too many presidents whose deaths would make a radical difference after FDR and maybe JFK. If FDR had died while Wallace was vice president, the New Deal might have been reinforced for at least another term or so, and therefore might have been more hardened to withstand the decades of attacks from the royalist right. Conversely, if FDR had lived after his presidency and into the 1950s, it's hard to imagine McCarthyism getting off the ground if our most beloved and articulate president was around to explain and defend his policies and appointments attack dogs like McCarthy called traitorous.

I suppose if Ike had died in office, Nixon would have brought McCarthyism all the way into the Oval Office. Ike kept it at least at arm's length.

If Nixon had died during his first term, we would have avoided Watergate, but Agnew would have had different sorts of problems.

[file83]

2. If Bush was killed, then Cheney would be President...

...that would be like killing the puppet and talking directly to the puppeteer. Not sure that would be very "productive" for anyone.

[soothsayer]

3. dude sure looks like dumbass! i still think they use body doubles

for him during some of his appearances. he looks really different from time to time. If they do, tho, I think they're all stupid, since not one of them can deliver a speech. Or maybe they do that on purpose since it's so easy to fake his mistakes and stupid, awkward cadence.

[Gruenemann]

4. I saw a preview in the Bijou (San Antonio)

I went to see "The U.S. Versus John Lennon" and they showed preview for "Death of a President"

[Clinton Crusader]

6. How was The U.S. Versus John Lennon? n/t

[Rosco T.]

5. It's available on DVD in R2 on Oct 30