There has been a lot of talk dominating the headlines about who is more patriotic John McCain or Barack Obama. I think I can settle this debate once and for all: me. I mean I was the Patriot.

I know this is hard to fathom, and some of you will no doubt question my uncanny foresight, but the reason I made that blockbuster hit that took the cineplexes by storm in the year of our lord 2000, was to settle this debate.

Would Barack Obama or John McCain wear a triangle pointy hat to prove his patriotism? What's that? My triangle pointy hat was historically inaccurate to the Revolutionary War? Ok, well then why do Jews still dress up like Abraham Lincoln? My point is getting lost in the swirling jumble of misfired synapses colliding in my schizophrenic brain. But allow me to bring up another chilling point:

In the film, my son, the fiery Heath Ledger meets his maker by the hands of the merciless Redcoats -- namely a one Colonial William Tavington. I'm not sure if this is life imitating art (or maybe the other way around!) but exactly eight years, three months and 15 days later, Heath Ledger is dead of unrelated causes. (Although who among us does not think ole' Tavington had a hand in the death pie?)

Historians out there would probably like to draw attention to my biography. Fine! I shall not flee from fact. They'd have you believe that by defecting to Australia, it somehow lessons my patriotic fervor for the Colonies. This Aussie blood coursing through my blood is the same colors of the American flag, albeit in different shades and quantities. Is it so far-fetched to think the color of my blood can not be reconfigured and re-proportioned at whim?

And do you know who else was Australian? Heath Ledger! Is your mind blown yet?

In summation, loyalty to country and nationalistic integrity is a common motif to many of my personalities characters. William Wallace in Bravehart. Benjamin Martin in The Patriot. And Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series (although a little more abstractly on that last one). So no matter what nation, territory, tribe or dynastic family I may represent on the big screen, you should know I am definitely the most patriotic one!