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The Washington Post Gushes In Love Over Obama First-Date Movie(Laugh or Puke)
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| 8/26/2016
| Tim Graham
Posted on 08/27/2016 5:58:07 AM PDT by rktman
The Washington Post is unsurprisingly in love with the new Obama-puffing film about Barack and Michelles first date. Movie critic Ann Hornaday won the prize for the biggest gush, comparing Obama to young Abe Lincoln:
Like the warm summer day it chronicles, Southside With You possesses a mellow, languorous vibe, an infectious easygoing charm that insinuates itself gently, then seductively, as the couple at its center experiences the stirrings of what might be true love.
That the two young people in question are named Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson almost feels like an afterthought in Richard Tannes modest but enormously enjoyable throwback of a movie. Imagine a cross between John Fords Young Mr. Lincoln and Richard Linklaters Before Sunrise, and you get a sense of the tone of a movie that tiptoes to the edge of hagiography but never falls in, at least entirely.
Hornaday's comparing Obama to Lincoln, so maybe she's not the best judge of what's a hagiography. She then quickly said Obama's "pathological haters" won't want to see it, and links to fellow partisan Post hack Petula Dvorak trashing the hatred (obviously racial) of Obama critic
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: absurdity; hollyweird
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LOLOLOLOL! Srsly? What next? The lyin' king went on to become a senator, their story was the basis for the book 'Love Story' by Erich Seigel, he invented the internet, he discovered glow bull warming and she railed against the music industry for their often disgusting lyrics filled with hate and calling for cops to be killed. Oh, sorry. That was another love story. Straight to DVD?
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posted on
08/27/2016 5:58:07 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
I actually saw an ad for this comedy last night. Chili on the way up, ain’t as good as on the way down.
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posted on
08/27/2016 5:59:24 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
Any scenes of 0bama and Larry Sinclair and Man’s Country in this bio pic of his early Chicago days? Rev. Wright, the choir boy in the church who was murdered?
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:01:31 AM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
To: rktman
[comparing Obama to young Abe Lincoln]
BARACK OBAMA, you are no ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:01:41 AM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
To: rktman
I. CANNOT. POSSIBLY. READ. THIS. BILE.
To: rktman
...throwback of a movie...More like a throwup of a movie. /spit
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:03:54 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: rktman
Publicity photo from the movie.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:04:04 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(Hey Media: Bias = Layoffs)
To: rktman
That the two young people in question are named Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson almost feels like an afterthought
i.e. they wrote a love story and then decided to name the main Characters Obama and Michelle and make one black and the other mulatto.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:04:32 AM PDT
by
Mr. Douglas
(Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
To: rktman
Why in the world would anyone want to see a movie about Obama and Michelle's first date?
Have we skidded over into "Great Leader" territory now?
Why on earth would these liberals want to deify such a loser as Obama?
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:07:29 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: FrdmLvr
< Any scenes of 0bama and Larry Sinclair and Mans Country in this bio pic of his early Chicago days? Rev. Wright, the choir boy in the church who was murdered?
And how 'bout Michael's sex change and being renamed to Michelle?
To: rktman
hagiographyThat's a new word for me...
Full Definition of hagiography
1 : biography of saints or venerated persons
2 : idealizing or idolizing biography
These libtards truly are mentally ill...
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:09:52 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
To: rktman
F- the President and his old lady.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:10:05 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: stars & stripes forever
BARACK OBAMA, you are no ABRAHAM LINCOLN. I dunno, Race Obsessed Liberal Lawyer from Illinois who racked up massive amounts of Federal debt, seems pretty similar to me.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:10:07 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: stars & stripes forever
The left considers Lincoln homosexual because he roomed with some guy in his youth. Maybe the comparison isn’t such a stretch for them.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:10:42 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: rktman
I saw publicity stills. The casting director is either legally blind or has never seen a recent, in focus photo of the Obamas.
CC
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:10:52 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: rktman
And if you don’t go see it, you’re racist. If it bombs, whitey’s fault.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:11:57 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: DiogenesLamp
Have we skidded over into "Great Leader" territory now?
Isn't it obvious that we've been there for the last 8 years? Can you imagine how badly the movie critics would have savaged a flick, circa 1973, about the love story of young Dick and Pat Nixon?
To: rktman
Picturing Chris Matthews sitting alone in a deserted movie theater, with a huge bucket of popcorn in his lap.
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:12:09 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: rktman
I cannot imagine a gun big enough to force me to watch this crap!
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:12:27 AM PDT
by
SPOTTEDOWL
(Are frontal lobotomies prerequisite for being classified as a liberal?)
To: ilovesarah2012
Hey, look at it as an addition to your diet plan. It’ll stop you from eating for at least an hour or so. LOL!
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posted on
08/27/2016 6:12:28 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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