Product Details

• Actors: George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Ted Haggard, Don Hodel, Ralph Nader
• Directors: David W. Balsiger
• Writers: Joseph Meier, Sharon Dymmel
• Producers: Audrey Beckett, Charles E. Sellier Jr., Ted Beckett
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Good Times Video
• DVD Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002VEPD0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,345 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "George W. Bush - Faith in the White House" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beliefs we hope our next President should have!, July 3, 2011

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Great DVD. A short but precise historical assessment of the faith of this great President. A great starting point for those interested in the origins of the religious aspects of American politics since its beginning.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good acquisition, December 31, 2011

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I am very happy that I acquired this DVD. I haven't seen yet, but I think it would be a very beautiful movie.

16 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fake in the White House, April 11, 2005

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Llamas are cute and funny (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: George W. Bush - Faith in the White House (DVD)

Bush spends more time on his knees than any American president? I didn't need to know that. I could insert the obvious Lewinsky joke here, but since I'm not a drive-time DJ or 99.9% of the stand-up comics in America (or most of the guys you work with), I won't.

Instead I'll ask the question this little puff-piece crockumentary fails to answer: So? So George W. Bush prays. So he's sincere in his beliefs. So he is guided by his understanding of what Christ would do, or want done, in any situation. So what? I don't care how sincere he is -- he keeps doing bad things that hurt most (read: poor and middle-class) Americans.

Bush's conception of faith is so flawed it's remarkable more thoughtful Christians haven't called him on it publicly. No matter how ardent your beliefs, if they're factually incorrect then that's that. I can believe in my heart of heart that two plus two does not equal four. Doesn't make it so. But because Bush looked into his heart and "prayed on" whether invading Iraq was the right thing to do, we're now supposed to forget that the invasion was not only morally reprehensible but based on at least incomplete and very likely purposely skewed intelligence analysis? Think I'll pass on that Kool-Aid.

Bush is the worst president ever. That's pretty clear by now to anyone (a) older than 8, (b) not a member of the Bush family, or (c) who can and does read. How much more evidence do we need? Like when he said he looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and "saw his soul." This, despite Putin's increasingly autocratic and racist policies, including the continued oppression and murder of his own countrymen? Or like when he said the jury is still out on evolution? The evolution issue is so overdone - we've been having this argument for decades now, and some people just won't respond to fact. But what no one ever attacks is the arrogance of these windowlickers who say it ain't so just because it doesn't square with THEIR conception of the text and meaning of the Bible. Am I the only one who's insulted that these oxygen thieves don't believe God to be capable of creating the seeds from which life grew? If God is omnipotent, why is there even a question as to whether evolution can be squared with Christianity or the Bible? I'm supposed to believe God can create man out of dust in an instant, but not out of numerous genetic mutations over the course of millenia? That's not a problem with my faith, folks; that's a problem with your ability to really grasp the concept of omnipotence. Which figures: most of the people who'll enjoy this DVD have zero power over anything important, including their own lives. But what's galling, and what keeps us Liberals awake nights, is that we have a president who can't grasp the concept. What is faith without intelligence?

This DVD just adds ammo to the inescapable conclusion that Bush is a pious fraud. From his fake Texanisms (your blue-blood Connecticut family spent tens of thousands of dollars to put you through Harvard AND Yale and you STILL can't pronounce "nuclear"?) to his cynical and exploitative (see e.g. Terri Schiavo) religiosity, George W. Bush stops being sincere the second he wakes up. He's a bigoted, myopic little child of privilege who should be given a gun and sent to fight alongside the soldiers he's thrown into the meat grinder. I know he chickened out the last time such an opportunity dropped into his lap, but it's never too late. Proceeds from this DVD could be used to buy him a one-way ticket to Fallujah so he can put that spiffy flight suit to use. But since Bush has clearly played the Jedi Mind Trick on the filmmakers, that's not likely to happen.

So...why the two stars? Because the "Left Behind" crowd will spend two more hours in front of their DVD players and two less hours picketing Planned Parenthood clinics. Anything that sedates the farthest right fringes of American religion is good by me. Plus, there's something kind of appealing about watching a puff piece on someone you just know is ultimately going to be shown for the charlatan they are.

And to stem the expected flow of hate mail: I attend church regularly, am close friends with many evangelical Christians (though I am not one), including Bush supporters (ditto - duh!), and have made these same arguments to many of them. Their usual response: a shoulder shrug and a "well, you just don't understand." Actually, I understand very well. It's the Politics of Fear. Say what you will about Bill Clinton; most of us who voted for him were voting for hope. And that's a big problem: it's a lot easier to create fear than hope. So people like Bush and Ronald Reagan will pop up from time to time, and our job is to hold our noses and try to keep reminding ourselves that This Too Shall Pass.