Posted on 08/25/2012 5:48:54 PM PDT by maggiesnotebook
Got me wanting to see it, now!
Wow, that’s what you got from it?
Wow, thats what you got from it?
There was nothing new. What did you get that you didn’t know already?
Welli certainly didn’t see it as sympathetic to “poor Barack”. I hadn’t read the book, knew the general thesis, but thought it was well done. I went more to see the audience and their reaction, since I saw it in dc suburbs, northern VA.
Moreover, I don’t think you and I were the intended audience for this film. DO you think the rank and file populace knew ANY of that?
“”Got me wanting to see it, now!””
I hate to admit it but I thought the same thing as opposed to my posting of yesterday that I already knew more than I wanted to know about the creep!!! May have to rethink this and my family calls me stubborn!!!
LOL
The price of one of moochelle's dresses or one pair of shoes could have supported them.
I dont think you and I were the intended audience for this film.
That is most likely true. Although I think people like you and I are the ones seeing the film. I saw it in Annapolis Maryland at the Harbor Center Movies. We are almost neighbors...lol.
“”You’ll learn a lot about Barack Obama, Sr., and hear from a man who was a very close friend of his. The passion and “hate” is still there, and he fairly spits it out.””
This struck me as interesting as I hadn’t seen any clips from the documentary about this. I think now that there would be other things I didn’t know.. It’s kind of like an obsession - ala Bill Clinton. I couldn’t stand the man but I had to buy every book written about him and his wife. We moved from CA in 2006 and I didn’t take one Clinton book with me. I learned my lesson and don’t have one obozo book in my house!!!
I saw it yesterday. All showings were sold out.
It was an interesting take on the man. the documentary did not bring in moral issues nor did it bring up the ACORN or community organizing days. Nor did it mention the political bent of the grandparents that I have read about.
But the goal, no matter the reason or psychology behind the attitude is to take down America and we are on the way.
I liked The Amateur by Edward Klein. Gossipy quick read and verified everything we suspected about the ego, the narcissism, and the spending. Knowing the stuff and seeing it played out on the screen is very different,
I won't give it away, but the whole tone of the George Obama interview was the most revealing part of the movie for me. At the very least it should put to rest speculations about Obama's parentage. Barack and George are cut from the same cloth. Tall, lanky, intelligent, mostly soft-spoken. But despite his personal poverty and the corrupted squalor that is Kenya, George does not blame the rich or the whites or the West for his problems, quite the opposite. Very, very refreshing. And you can clearly see why BHO doesn't want to help his brother. In that category, only true believers need apply.
The movie was exceptional. Basically a video version of Desouza's books, but very, very well produced. The theater was packed and the comments I heard walking out among the mostly 50+ crowd was that it was a very scary movie. My 19 year old son, said, "Dad, I really don't like scary movies."
And contrary to the Napster, this was not a "poor Barrack" kind of movie. By making the comparison in origins between Obama and Desouza, and the ultimate contrast between their mindsets today, the viewer is allowed to draw his or her own conclusions about the roots of Obama's rage. Perhaps they could have spent more time in the technical, ideological policy weeds, making it appeal only to wonks. But in the end, this approach made it a real story about real people with an emotional connection that will resonate with people long after they walk out of the theater.
Regrettably, it may have only been preaching to the choir. As the people who need to see it probably won't.
Bet you have a weird sense of humor too...
I won't give it away, but the whole tone of the George Obama interview was the most revealing part of the movie for me. At the very least it should put to rest speculations about Obama's parentage. Barack and George are cut from the same cloth. Tall, lanky, intelligent, mostly soft-spoken. But despite his personal poverty and the corrupted squalor that is Kenya, George does not blame the rich or the whites or the West for his problems, quite the opposite. Very, very refreshing. And you can clearly see why BHO doesn't want to help his brother. In that category, only true believers need apply.
I saw the movie at a 1:30 p.m. showing this afternoon in a San Francisco suburb.
Theater was 3/8 full. Audience consisted of mostly viewers age 50+ with a few younger people, plus whole families.
Applause at the end.
I was impressed with the poise George Obama showed in his brief interview. Was the comment you mentioned related to Genesis 4:9, and his response to BO's interpretation of it?
And to tag onto your other comment, anyone who had any doubts about BO's foreignness will have THOSE doubts put to rest after having seen this movie. The man is not American at all.
What’s the hyphenated word?
thecodont, no it wasn’t the “my brother’s keeper” comment. I guess at this point in the conversation I can say it. It’s no big deal, but my one hypenated word that I knew, but ignored, and went the communism, marxism, socialism route (which also fits) is anti-colonialism. George said he thought Kenya would be a far more developed country had Whites stayed there longer.
He’s a smart guy.
napscoordinator, I knew everything that was in it, and I knew I would because I’ve been writing and reading about him for 5 years now. But, I do think the anti-colonist angle is spot on. I wrote about that when he first took office and booted out Churchill’s bust, then I forgot that angle and moved on to other things. Barack Sr. hated White, as his friend said in the movie, the belief is deep and hot that other nations, particularly the US and UK stole their wealth and then sold it back to them at astronomical prices.
I was glad to see Dinesh talking about the paper his father had published, because it explains a lot about the son. I’ve been linking to that paper for years.
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