Posted on 03/22/2012 4:51:22 PM PDT by MissesBush
Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a 17-minute film, "The Road We've Traveled," that previews the Democratic general election narrative. Directed by Davis Guggenheim and narrated by actor Tom Hanks, the film explores Mr. Obama's most important decisions.
Viewers are told Mr. Obama deserves re-election for restoring America to prosperity after a recession "as deep as anything . . . since the Great Depression." He accomplished this in part, so the film says, by bailing out the auto companies—deciding not to just "give the car companies" or "the UAW the money" but to force them to "work together" and "modernize the automobile industry." The president, we're told, also confronted "one of the most worrisome problems facing America . . . the cost of health care."
Abroad, Mr. Obama ended the Iraq war and, in the "ultimate test of leadership," Osama bin Laden was killed on his watch. The film heralds Mr. Obama as a leader committed to "tough decisions" and as someone who "would not dwell in blame" in the Oval Office.
Where to begin? Perhaps with the last statement: Mr. Obama has spent three years wallowing in blame. His culprits have ranged from his predecessor, to tsunamis and earthquakes, to ATMs, to Fox News, to yours truly. If you Google "Obama, Blame, Bush" and "Obama, Inherited," you'll get tens of millions of hits.
As for inheriting the worst economy since the Great Depression: Perhaps Mr. Obama has forgotten the Carter presidency, which featured double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, and high unemployment.
The film is riddled with other inaccuracies and misleading claims. For example, the United Auto Workers may not have gotten "money" in the bailout, but as an unsecured creditor, the union received a 17.5% ownership interest in General Motors and 55% of Chrysler, while the companies' bondholders got hosed.
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Can’t wait to hear Tom Hanks saying..”....Gave Solyndra the money and voila, it’s gone...or most of it is in Barry’s campaign coffers.”
Can’t wait to hear Tom Hanks saying..”....Gave Solyndra the money and voila, it’s gone...or most of it is in Barry’s campaign coffers.”
Tom didn’t mention that Bracko Bama just bought the UIAW vote by paying off Union members $7500 dollars apiece instead of paying down their debt did he?
The road we have traveled with Obama is no road at all. It is little better than an Ox cart trail to nowhere.
We now have prosperity???? Give me a friggin break.
Prosperity is $4.00 dollar gas , $3.00 Ground Beef, and $4.79 for a lb. of Bacon? Not in my book it isn’t.
Tom hanks may not mind that he is a millionaire, but for us people living on a pension, and many of us brought to the point of working as Walmart greeters that’s a mighty long way from prosperity
Obama’s new movie is called “the road we’ve traveled”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2860134/posts
The name of Obama’s new movie is called “the road we’ve traveled”
Look at his ideas...they’ve all happened!!! http://www.archive.org/details/TheRoadWeAreTraveling
By: Stuart Chase
In 1942, Stuart Chase, in his book “The Road We Are Traveling” spelled out the system of planning the Fabians had in mind.
1. Strong, centralized government.
2. Powerful Executive at the expense of Congress and the Judicial.
3. Government controlled banking, credit and securities exchange.
4. Government control over employment.
5. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions.
6. Universal medical care, food and housing programs.
7. Access to unlimited government borrowing.
8. A government managed monetary system.
9. Government control over all foreign trade.
10. Government control over natural energy sources, transportation and agricultural production.
11. Government regulation of labor.
12. Youth camps devoted to health discipline, community service and ideological teaching consistent with those of the authorities.
13. Heavy progressive taxation and hidden taxes on nations wealth.
The Fabian Socialist Revolution began in earnest in 1933 with the imposition of the Welfare State and has been steadily progressing since.
Obama was a phoney stone
Called every single program his own...
And when OIL died...
All he left us was coooooold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP5RSO8J7fg&ob=av2n
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
The Ho Chi Min Trail.
That was the Road he and his fellow travelers took.
Glenn Beck pointed out the interesting similarities in the title with the popular book among American Communist, The Road We Are Traveling. 1914-1942 by Stuart Chase
Full title: The Road We are Traveling, 1914-1942, Guide Lines to America’s Future as Reported to the Twentieth Century Fund
Coincidence ? I don’t think there is coincidence in the political life of Obama.
Stuart Chase. It was his book, “The Road We Are Traveling” that interested FDR.
This book is the blueprint for The New Deal.
Chase is famous for the quote at the end of his book A New Deal, “Why should Russians have all the fun remaking a world?” - a reference to the “socialist experiment” in the USSR
A list of his writings via Wiki,
The road we are traveling, 1914-1942: guide lines to America’s future as reported to the Twentieth Century Fund. Twentieth Century Fund; 1942
Your Money’s Worth: A study in the waste of the consumer’s dollar 1928
The Tragedy of Waste 1925
Men and Machines 1929
The Nemesis of American Business 1931
A New Deal. New York, The Macmillan company, 1932. OCLC 172909
A Generation of Industrial Peace;: Thirty years of labor relations at Standard Oil Company 1941
The Proper Study of Mankind Harper & Brothers 1948. OCLC 615390630
Roads to Agreement: Successful methods in the science of human relations 1951
For This We Fought;: Guide lines to America’s future as reported to the Twentieth Century Fund
Danger-Men Talking! a Background Book on Semantics and Communication
Rich Land, Poor Land
The Proper Study of Mankind Harper Colophon Books, 1956
American Credos 1962
Guides to Straight Thinking, With 13 Common Fallacies. New York: Harper, 1956. OCLC 307334
The Economy of Abundance
The Tyranny of Words. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1938. OCLC 822896
The road we’ve travelled with 0bama? “ To hell in a handbasket” comes to mind.
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Add to your list $3.50-$4.00 for a loaf of bread that use to cost $1.29—and by “use to” I mean 2-3 years ago.
You are right , I cant believe the price of bread.
Being Catholic and meatless Fridays , I cannot believe the price of fish. Remember when you got a can of Tuna you got a chunk of Tuna. Now you get Tune mush in water.
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