According to this documentary that hit the screen just in time for the Republican Convention, what fuelled Obama’s meteoric rise to the White House was his rage against the white man and the influence of the colonialist-hating worldview of his father (never mind that Obama’s father left his wife and son to go back to Kenya when our future President was all of two).
If you add to this already volatile mix the burden of other psychological hang-ups so extreme that filmmakers John Sullivan and Dinesh D’Souza (who also scripted “2016”) hardly have time to list them in 87 minutes, we would be in really bad shape if Obama were to be reelected this fall and get a chance to complete his evil destruction of everything this great country of ours stands for.
The problem is, we have already heard all the absurd theories and apocalyptic predictions inundating media, talk shows and the web since an African-American, not even born in this country, didn’t know his place and reached the White House. That the film plays on 1,091 screens nationally (to be expanded to 1,500) and was no. 4 last weekend is a sad commentary on the audiences who gobble these outlandish claims, the same all-white audience of seniors who, when credits start rolling, rise to their feet—none too nimbly—and applaud.
The documentary showing across America titled ‘ 2016: Obama’s America ‘ provides a lot of insight into Obama’s influences in his life, and it is a must see film for all American voters. Obama supporters will, also, enjoy this movie since it will answer a lot of questions about Obama’s early influences in his life and what his agenda will probably be in a second term if re-elected. Just saw the movie yesterday in Ohio to a packed audience and at the end of the movie, most people were applauding. I was one of the older ones (48) seeing the documentary and there were a few African-Americans in the theater ,too.
I thought the beginning of this movie was great– exploring anit-colonialism in the background of Obama’s life through the eyes of an Indian who own country had gone through the struggle for independence. As long as D’Souza was an interviewedr, the movie was genuinely interesting. Suddenly though– upon young Obama’s return to Hawaii and the Punahou school it starts bursting into a McCarthyite screed and from then on it every nightmare of the right wing was prophesied as an unavoidable truth if he is re-elected. These were the same things predicted for his first term– not by McCain, a soul of reason by comparison to the right’s extreme elements, but by the mean-spirited crazies who kept clogging my mailbox with email. There were two African-American in an audience of 6 people (12:00 PM, Saturday), and one of them thought the movie was great.