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How I became George Obama's 'brother'
By Dinesh D'Souza
Published August 16, 2012
FoxNews.com
A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George’s son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, “Why are you coming to me?” He said, “I have no one else to ask.” Then he said something that astounded me, “Dinesh, you are like a brother to me.”
Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George’s brother is a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover, George’s brother has framed his re-election campaign around the “fair share” theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.
One of Obama’s favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: “We are our brother’s keeper.” Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.
So much for spreading the wealth around.
Obama’s refusal to help George is especially surprising because George doesn’t just live in American-style poverty but rather in Third World poverty. He lives in a shanty in the Huruma slum in Nairobi. He gets by on a few dollars a month. Obama also has an aunt named Hawa Auma, his father’s sister, who ekes out a living selling coal on the streets of a small village in Kenya. She says she would like to have her teeth fixed, but she cannot afford it. Obama hasn’t offered to help her either.
What’s going on here? Why is President Obama so hesitant to help family members in need?
A couple of years ago, George teamed up with a British journalist Damien Lewis and the two of them published George’s story in a book called "Homeland." Yet according to Lewis, shortly before the book’s publication in America, the publisher Simon & Schuster decided to shred the entire print run, more than 20,000 copies. Lewis tried unsuccessfully to get an explanation from Simon & Schuster but to no avail. He now suspects that the White House convinced Simon & Schuster that George’s story might prove embarrassing to the president.
In 2010, George also applied for a visa to come to the United States and was refused. While George confesses that in his younger years he was a delinquent, he has never been convicted of any crime. Moreover, he has a very good reason to visit the United States: his mother Jael Otieno lives in Atlanta. So why would the U. S. embassy in Nairobi refuse a tourist visa to the brother of the president who just wants to spend time with his mother?
In the past few days, an article has been circulating on the web that depicts George as a social undesirable. First published in the London Daily Mail, the article portrays George as a habitual drunk and philanderer. I spent a day with George this past February while interviewing him for my documentary film 2016: Obama’s America. I can attest that George is not an innocent. If he had been, he would not have survived life in the Huruma slum. Yes, George is street smart and cunning and I did smell alcohol on his breath.
But so what? George may be a drinker and a skirt-chaser but, as becomes clear from his book, he is also a survivor. He has overcome his past as a gang-member and petty thief and now works as the organizer of a slum soccer league. He is trying to uplift himself, and he is trying to help slum kids aspire to a better life. On balance, Lewis assures me, “George is not a bad guy. He is on the side of the angels.”
But even if Lewis is wrong, and George exhibits some harmful cultural pathologies, the liberal argument—one that Obama himself makes in his book "The Audacity of Hope" — is that the cultural pathologies of the poor are themselves the product of social disadvantage.
Barack Obama Jr. first met George in 1987, when George was five years old. He met George again in 2006 when he visited Kenya as a U.S. Senator from Illinois; George was then in his early twenties. Had Obama helped George along the way, perhaps this young man would not have ended up dirt-poor and living such a degraded life.
So what’s the real story here? Where’s George Obama’s “fair share”? George’s tragic situation exposes President Obama as a hypocrite. Here is a man who demands that others pay higher taxes to help the poor—even poor people who are not related to them—while Obama himself refuses to help a close relative like George.
Yet I believe there is a deeper explanation that goes beyond hypocrisy for why Obama wants nothing to do with George. After all, it would cost Obama so little to raise George out of poverty, and yet he won’t do it. This isn’t mere negligence; it suggests an active animus. The reason for that animus emerges in George’s book and also in my interview with George in the film 2016. In that interview, George rejects the anti-colonial philosophy that was espoused by Barack Obama Sr. This is the “dream from my father” that President Obama celebrates in his own autobiography.
From the record of their lives and writings, it’s clear that Barack Obama Sr. and Barack Obama Jr. both share the anti-colonial view that blames Western colonial exploitation for the poverty and suffering of the Third World. Yet George doesn’t buy it. He observes that at the time of its independence in the early 1960s “Kenya was on an economic par with Malaysia or Singapore. Look where we are now, and where they are. They’re practically developed and industrialized, while Kenya is still a basket case.” George believes that poor countries should take responsibility for their own situation. “What’s our excuse for failure? We don’t have one. We’ve only got ourselves to blame.”
Incredible though it seems, George Obama is, within the context of his own society, a conservative. He doesn’t worship at the shrine of Barack Obama Sr. and he espouses an ideology diametrically opposed to that of his father and his famous brother. George has experienced first-hand the empty rhetoric of the two Baracks, and he rejects it based on his actual experience of Third World poverty.
No wonder President Obama despises George, doesn’t want him around, doesn’t care to hear George’s views circulated in America, and won’t lift a finger to help him even when George’s son is in the hospital.
So that’s why George Obama felt he had to call me. He had no one else to call. He reached out to me in his time of need because he felt he couldn’t call on his real life sibling living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
That’s how I got to be, if only metaphorically and for a short time, George Obama’s “brother.”
Dinesh D’Souza, narrator and co-director of the film "2016 - Obama's America," is also the author of the new book "Obama’s America," published this week by Regnery
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/#ixzz23kcnNq9K
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D'Souza should have called Romney Campaign and got Mittens to pay for this.
Talk about Obama being punked if mittens did that.
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First off, he's Obama's half brother and secondly, Barack should not be responsible for other family members well being. He has no obligation to him whatsoever and vice versa..... ::)
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First off, he's Obama's half brother and secondly, Barack should not be responsible for other family members well being. He has no obligation to him whatsoever and vice versa..... ::)
lol!!!!!!!
YET OBAMA WANTS ME TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT?
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is george the car jacking gangster brother? Obama has to avoid that. Imagine "US President funding foreign gang members".
It'd be like F&F II.
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lol!!!!!!!
YET OBAMA WANTS ME TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT?
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This
Glad to see you've finally come around Vince
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http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/08/georgeo-george-o-no-peace-i-find.html
;D
Obama treats his own family like he does the nation - like a pile of dog shit
1. Aunt in public housing
2. Uncle drunk working in a liquor store
3. Brother in a hut wo help for his child
So no Thugbama - you are not your brothers' keeper. Obama is a typical selfish, low-tipping, race pimping, ghetto piece of shit
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http://www.michellesmirror.com/2012/08/georgeo-george-o-no-peace-i-find.html
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Obama treats his own family like he does the nation - like a pile of dog shit
1. Aunt in public housing
2. Uncle drunk working in a liquor store
3. Brother in a hut wo help for his child
So no Thugbama - you are not your brothers' keeper. Obama is a typical selfish, low-tipping, race pimping, ghetto piece of shit
he has to. He's president. He pays his brother $X and his brother breaks the law - then the US president directly funded some bad shit.
I dont know why you are immature about this. 33, if your brother was a rapist and didn't have food money bcause he spent his $ on chloroform, would you feed him?
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he has to. He's president. He pays his brother $X and his brother breaks the law - then the US president directly funded some bad shit.
I dont know why you are immature about this. 33, if your brother was a rapist and didn't have food money bcause he spent his $ on chloroform, would you feed him?
He needed the $ for the kids surgery and D'Souza was the only one he could turn to!
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He needed the $ for the kids surgery and D'Souza was the only one he could turn to!
Oh ok. I thought this author was just buying the inside track to a smear obama story. My mistake.
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Oh ok. I thought this author was just buying the inside track to a smear obama story. My mistake.
So you did not even read the post - you just came in to kneepad obama again?
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So you did not even read the post - you just came in to kneepad obama again?
What did you expect? Obama supporters and in fact every single supporter of the Democratic party are the most uninformed individuals in this country.
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So you did not even read the post - you just came in to kneepad obama again?
the top anti-obama author/birther was the only person out of 7 billion who would help him, huh?
yeah, okay.
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the top anti-obama author/birther was the only person out of 7 billion who would help him, huh?
yeah, okay.
So D'Souza is lying now?
Seriously - is that how far you will go to shill for your God King?
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the top anti-obama author/birther was the only person out of 7 billion who would help him, huh?
yeah, okay.
Yet, his own brother, a multi-millionaire, won't lift a finger. Considering the exchange rate (as of 2006, 71 Kenya Shillings = 1 US dollar), if Barack gave George a few thousand US bucks, George could probably live fairly comfortably.
Why doesn't the prez "redistribute" some of his wealth with his own kin (assuming they ain't doing dirt)?
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This story sounds bogus
How does Obamas half brotheractually get D'Souzas #?
Nice coincidence that D'Souza has a movie out right now
Also no way that D'Souza got scammed. I mean Obamas brother handed the phone to a "nurse" so you know it has to be true
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This story sounds bogus
How does Obamas half brotheractually get D'Souzas #?
Nice coincidence that D'Souza has a movie out right now
Also no way that D'Souza got scammed. I mean Obamas brother handed the phone to a "nurse" so you know it has to be true
DSouza spent time w George for the movie.
Just face it Straw - this entire image you worship of Obama is a bogus lie. He is little more than a chepaskate and a piece of trash.
Aunt in public housing
Brother in a hut
Uncle drunk in the street.
Taxpayers looted.
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DSouza spent time w George for the movie.
Just face it Straw - this entire image you worship of Obama is a bogus lie. He is little more than a chepaskate and a piece of trash.
Aunt in public housing
Brother in a hut
Uncle drunk in the street.
Taxpayers looted.
33, i have cousins and a sibling in poverty due to their own poor choices.
Drugs, alcohol, crime, and just plain laziness. I have no committment to them. They ignore me fore 10 years then show up when they need money? really/
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DSouza spent time w George for the movie.
Just face it Straw - this entire image you worship of Obama is a bogus lie. He is little more than a chepaskate and a piece of trash.
Aunt in public housing
Brother in a hut
Uncle drunk in the street.
Taxpayers looted.
the only one who worshps Obama on this board is you and why would I judge Obama based on his relatives
I'm sure you have some good people in your family. Should I judge them harshly just because you're idiot
It that their fault?
btw - how did this story get in the media. Did it come from D'Souza
what kind of person feels the need to publicize their own act of alleged charity?
Sounds more bogus then ever
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I guess Kenyanomics is not working over there too well? Why does Obama think it will work here?
the only one who worshps Obama on this board is you and why would I judge Obama based on his relatives
I'm sure you have some good people in your family. Should I judge them harshly just because you're idiot
It that their fault?
btw - how did this story get in the media. Did it come from D'Souza
what kind of person feels the need to publicize their own act of alleged charity?
Sounds more bogus then ever
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I guess Kenyanomics is not working over there too well? Why does Obama think it will work here?
he doesn't
it's only dopes like you that think he does
just another in the long list of ridiculous stuff that you imagine is real
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he doesn't
it's only dopes like you that think he does
just another in the long list of ridiculous stuff that you imagine is real
Dreams from My Father for 200 Alex?
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Dreams from My Father for 200 Alex?
sure, please post exact page/paragraph that you'd like me to look at
or even better why don't you post an 11 second out of context clip from the audio book
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Doesn't sound like the president is his brother's keeper.
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I wonder if D'Souza is aware that Obama has another half brother that is a Nigerian prince
he just needs a small upfront fee so he can escape the country and then he can help D'Souza to discredit Obama
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I wonder if D'Souza is aware that Obama has another half brother that is a Nigerian prince
he just needs a small upfront fee so he can escape the country and then he can help D'Souza to discredit Obama
Maybe that is where obama came up w his economic program? Those Nigerians are known for their scams.
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Doesn't sound like the president is his brother's keeper.
half brother
have they ever even met
he seems mad that his image as been manipulated by the media
maybe that's why he decided to scam D'Souza
George Hussein Onyango Obama
Youngest half-brother of Barack Obama, born c.1982, son of Barack Obama Sr.[119] and Jael Otieno (now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia).[120][121] George was six months old when his father died in an automobile accident, after which he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a French step-father. He later lived in South Korea for two years while his mother resided there for business reasons.[120] Returning to Kenya, George Obama "slept rough for several years,"[122] until his aunt gave him a six-by-eight foot corrugated metal shack in the Nairobi, Kenya, slum of Huruma Flats.[120] As of August 2008, Obama was studying to become a mechanic.[120] George received little attention until being featured in an article in the Italian language edition of Vanity Fair in August 2008, which portrayed him as living in poverty, shame, and obscurity.[123] The article quoted George Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and stated that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his poverty.[124] In later interviews George contradicted this picture. In an interview with The Times, he "said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum."[121] He told The Times, "Life in Huruma is good." George Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don't want my brother to win."[121] He told The Telegraph that he was inspired by his half-brother.[120] According to Time, George "has repeatedly denied…that he feels abandoned by Obama."[125] CNN quoted him as saying, "I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they have exaggerated everything… I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges."[123]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama
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Maybe that is where obama came up w his economic program? Those Nigerians are known for their scams.
you mean extending the Bush Tax cuts?
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Anti-Obama Documentary a Box Office Hit
ABC News ^
Posted on August 22, 2012 3:58:42 PM EDT by Sub-Driver
Anti-Obama Documentary a Box Office Hit
A documentary highly critical of President Obama’s past became the second highest-grossing documentary of the year last weekend, grossing $1.2 million last weekend.
“2016: Obama’s America,” based on conservative author Dines D’Souza’s book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” expanded to 169 theaters nationwide on Friday, following the success of its limited release to 61 theaters over the past month, the Hollywood Reporter first reported.
Overall the documentary has grossed slightly more than $2 million since it opened at one theater in Houston on July 13, making it the 12th highest-grossing political documentary in history.
The film, D’Souza said, is “a vista” of Obama’s life, following his childhood from Hawaii to Indonesia to Kenya, his father’s birthplace, to Chicago. D’Souza claims that his documentary looks at “just how different” Obama is because of his multicultural upbringing, which the author claims led Obama to subscribe “to an ideology that sees America very differently.”
“Obama has an agenda that is different than what many and maybe a majority of Americans want,” D’Souza told ABC News after his film’s premiere in Texas last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
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half brother
have they ever even met
he seems mad that his image as been manipulated by the media
maybe that's why he decided to scam D'Souza
George Hussein Onyango Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama
OHHHHHH!!! He's his HALF-brother. Now, that makes it all better.
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Obama's Unmaking of the American Dream
Tea Party Tribune ^ | 2012-08-22 07:59:45 | mrcurmudgeon
Posted on August 22, 2012 2:27:38 PM EDT by tselatysr
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
When pundits and politicians on the right talk of President Obama's "spread the wealth around" economic policies, they tend to see it as an unprecedented expansion of America's welfare state. Dinesh D'Souza, National Review columnist and author of "Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream," sees the president's radical transformation of the nation as in keeping with a decidedly Third World mindset: As the largest consumer of the world's resources, wealth is disproportionately held by Americans and must be "spread around" to those nations considered more needy - and therefore more deserving.
It is D'Souza's contention that by increasing America's national debt, Obama is intentionally mortgaging the future of Americans yet unborn to foreign lenders (China) as a means of leveling the globe's economic playing field.
"Obama is not a conventional liberal," writes D'Souza, "He is not from the same mold as Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Michael Dukakis, or Jimmy Carter. Rather, Obama draws his identity and his values from a Third World, anti-American ideology that goes by the name of anti-colonialism. Obama's philosophy can be summed up in David Gelernter's phrase: America the Inexcusable. Notice that this is an affirmation of American exceptionalism, but exceptionalism of a special kind. According to this ethos, America is exceptional in being exceptionally militaristic, violent, greedy, selfish, and rapacious. For Obama, America is the plunderer; and he is the restorer. Traditional Democrats want to preserve American leadership and have America be a model for the World; Obama wants to displace American hegemony and realign America in the world."
D'Souza believes conservatives are misguided when they dismiss the president as an incompetent bungler. When the president said, "The private sector is doing fine," "If you've got a business - you didn't build that, somebody else made that happen," and "We tried our [economic] plan and it worked," conservatives see the accelerating contraction of the American economy under the Obama presidency and say the man is disconnected from reality.
However, when viewed through the lens of Third World anti-colonialism, anti-Americanism, Obama's statements ring true: If an American has built a thriving business, it is at the expense of the exploited denizens of the Third World; redistribution of income and increased government spending and debt checks the growth of the U.S. economy - a less prosperous America is less exploitive and militarily aggressive; Obama declares a moratorium on offshore oil drilling for domestic energy companies while funding Brazil's deep-water oil exploration, increasing our energy dependence and enriching a Latin American nation at U.S expense; while the poverty rate in the country increases to levels not seen in fifty years, compared to the world's more impoverished places, like Indonesia or Kenya, America's poor are Warren Buffetts by comparison.
Obama's anti-colonial project for America, then, is progressing beyond the wildest dreams of his father.
"We need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation [of wealth] so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now," wrote Barack Obama Sr. in 1965 for the East African Journal. In the piece titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism," the elder Obama said,"... theoretically there is nothing that can stop the [Kenyan] government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."
Ironically, "conservative" U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the elder Obama's views on Third World anti-colonial socialism by upholding Junior's health care monstrosity as constitutional so long as it is viewed as a tax.
D'Souza's book has a companion documentary film titled "Obama 2016: Love Him/Hate Him, You Don't Know Him." It is what the late Andrew Breitbart would consider part of Obama's belated "vetting."
In a recent interview with comedian, talk-radio host and Fox News contributor Dennis Miller, D'Souza said he traveled the world to interview people from Obama's past. Many of them said it was their first contact with the media. As the Journolist scandal proved, many in the mainstream media worked tirelessly to help Obama conceal his past during the campaign of 2008. Today, the same gaggle of media scribblers are more insistent on seeing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns than they ever were to view Obama's university transcripts or read his student writings - especially his paper regarding the dismantling of America's nuclear deterrent.
"Obama has a dream ... a dream from his father," says D'Souza in a voice-over promoting his documentary film, "that the sins of colonialism be set right and America be downsized."
"America has a dream from our Founding Fathers that together we must perfect liberty, and America must grow so liberty grows. Which dream will we carry into 2016?"
In 2012, American voters will do more than choose a president ... they'll choose a father's dreams.
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lol!!!!!!!
YET OBAMA WANTS ME TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT?
You already are with Social Security and Medicare if you have forgotten.
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I guess Kenyanomics is not working over there too well? Why does Obama think it will work here?
Well you think it will work here you logon everyday and scream for Obama to fix the economy. Since free market advocates keeping the government out of the economy you dont make a whole lot of sense
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http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/first-box-office-anti-obama-movie-1
No 1 !
I'm going on Sunday w the Westchester County Tea Party group.
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I normally would not review a movie that isn’t science fiction or fantasy here. Since Joe Biden is in the film calling Dinesh D’Souza a “science fiction” writer I don’t feel too bad about doing this review. This is also a movie about the future and like the best science fiction this is a cautionary tale of a future that could actually happen.
I got out of work at lunch today and I thought I would just pop into the movie theater and watch the movie. The movie was at 12:20. I thought getting there right at noon would not matter. No one is going to be at some political film in the middle of the day. I was wrong. So wrong that I ended up sitting in one of the handicapped seats because the movie was already full when I arrived. I go to the movies almost every Friday after work. I have never been in a packed theater at noon. I went to The Avengers at noon and it wasn’t packed. What is going on?
So I watch some stupid left wing movie trailer about teachers and schools. A movie you could not pay me to go watch and I could tell the audience was not happy. I realize that the theater is obligated to show trailers and they had fewer trailers on this movie than any I have seen recently, only three. I could also tell that many in the audience had not been to see a movie in quite some time. This film was bringing in people who had boycotted Hollywood long ago.
Eventually the movie started and we watched as D’Sousa deconstructed Obama’s entire life and compared it to his own. The two men have some amazing similarities. Born in the same year, both ivy league school grads, and both products of colonialism. Their individual responses to colonialism separated the paths of these two men. Obama never really knew his father and his mother continually compared every man she was with unfavorably to Barack Obama senior. She created a saint in the eyes of the young Obama. D’Sousa uses Obama’s own writings about his father to illustrate how he idolized the man and how that idolization lead him to seek to fulfill his father’s dreams. Those dreams are the basis of Obama’s political philosophy. D’Sousa explores that philosophy through the writings of the senior Obama. These writings reveal a man deeply troubled by the colonial past of Kenya. A man who sought to steal back from those colonial powers the influence and resources he felt had been denied to his people.
D’Sousa then examines how Obama’s many mentors, all of them radicals or communists of one kind or another, gave him the tools and ideas he needed to realize those dreams of his father. He reaches into Obama’s past to show the motivation and inspiration for his rise to the presidency. He also lays out exactly what Obama plans are for the next four years if he is reelected.
This is an important movie. Very little of it was new to me beyond the interviews with Obama’s half brother and the graduate school adviser for his mother, but if you have a friend that is on the fence this election they need to see this movie. It will give you more information about our current president than any media outlet has been willing or able to as of yet. Don’t miss it.
http://thefreehold.us/?p=691
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http://www.fandango.com/2016obamasamerica_157117/moviereviews?sort=3&pn=4
LOL!!!!
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So you mean obama doesnt think he should have to pay for other people? Hmmmm this is interesting based on the policies he pushes.
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So you mean obama doesnt think he should have to pay for other people? Hmmmm this is interesting based on the policies he pushes.
Obama is a greedy, low tipping, race pimping, poverty whoring, ghetto blinging, thug.
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^^^ to say the least!
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Just saw 2016 - very well done. Not negative or bombastic at all and DSouza really did a great job in this.