Posted on 09/04/2012 6:46:44 AM PDT by Fishtalk
Good analysis, Fishtalk. I saw it this weekend as well. Thought the camerawork was excellent.
The revelations about the mother’s influence stood out to me as well.....the part where she was upset when her husband became successful working for an oil company, and she was expected to essentially act like a corporate wife....was eye-opening. Seems like she felt more comfortable identifying with the third world citizens vs. Americans.
I have wondered the same thing about Congress. Where are they while obama is busily writing or rewriting laws that Congress has passed? obama has consolidated so much power in the executive branch, he needs Congress less and less.
I left the movie, frightened, knowing if we don’t get him out of office, the US as we know it, is toast.
I wonder how many people will see this movie, and it will change their mind about voting for obama. I doubt few obama voters will see it.
This movie is a mirror.
When he rightly complains of our government's failure, we must remember the government is made up of us, who were put there by us and monitored or not by us.
So, when this movie shows us something that is or should be absolutely terrifying, it is showing us the reflection of ourselves and what we ourselves have created and become.
If you don't like what you see in the mirror, then it is up to YOU to change it into something better.
need to make sure you post it to your facebook account and to send the message to your entire email list and encourge others to foward the word on the movie. We will beat them on the ground with shoe leather in November but only if we mobilize now. This movie is a great representation of what four more years of a failed President Obama will be.
What the movie reveals is how far to the left Obama’s family was. He is ultra left. America is a center-right country and after Obama comes Karl Marx.
I did not know that his mother divorced Soetoro because he was becoming too westernized once he began working for a major oil company! She thought that action was a betrayal and kicked the family’s father out of the house! That to me was very telling, that these people are such devoted and dedicated communists - that they will even deny children their father for the sake of advancing communism and anti-Amricanism. His grandparents were worse, bringing Obama to Frank Marshall, a severe communist who hated America, and having him mentor Obama. That’s helpful, turn your teenage grandson over to a rabid, anti-American hater to help in his development? How about that for the beginnings of rage? To grow up in that environment clearly had an impact and it is more shocking to think it was never really covered in the media. No one asked the question. At least Dinesh did.
Yes indeed.
That bit about being “mentored” by Marshall Davis should have stuck out like a sore thumb. Well to a journalist who wanted to be a journalist it should have.
what they hey? Who goes out and seeks a “mentor” for their kids? Don’t they have teachers and such for that sort of thing?
And his grandfather seeks out a pedophile, come on! What an awful, awful thing to do.
Truly, if the fact that Obama was mentored by a radical card-carrying communist was known as widespread as it should be, I don’t think he’s have gotten elected.
If our Lamestream media does not report the news you know they’re not breaking the law. There’s no law says they must report what’s important.
Slowly but surely America is rising. While I might think it should be an easy thing, it all takes time.
The rise of the Tea Party.
The Internet.
Bloggers.
Talk Radio.
They all become part of the cure.
It will be slow but it will happen.
I totally agree with you. I saw it this weekend as well. Not a packed theater. Mostly an older crowd. Scariest part was when the former Comptroller General was interviewed. This was a well done documentary and if people are on the fence they should definitely watch it and form their own opinion. Like you I believe that the anti-colonialism angle was stretched and the leaning is more towards socialism/communism. A monarchy or a dictatorship is more what seems to be the direction of this administration.
Saw the film a week ago last Sunday at 11:00 am. Theatre was half full at that weird time. There were a couple of black families in attendance.
I think they were trying to jazz up the "talking head" interviews. The cutting did that, and it also distracted us from the fact that the interviews were scripted. So, they'd show the interviewee and Dinesh on the phone in different parts of the world in attempt to make it look like Dinesh was a detective on the trail of a real live story and that the revelations were being revealed in "real time".
Lee Strobel's videos (The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, etc.) are shot and edited in a similar way.
I saw the movie last week. It was in the cineplex’s smallest theater, but it was 80% full.
I thought the movie gave Obama too much credit for actually having a thorough ideology. Obama was simply an average kid, with average intelligence, who was raised by a typically leftist America-hating mother and grandparents. He smoked a lot of weed in high-school and college, and he didn’t question his mother’s ideology, didn’t think about it things too much, and most of the time seemed to just muddle through.
Somewhere after High School though, he discovered that his name, skin color and background were the ticket he needed to game the system. This, combined with the fact he could regurgitate the standard leftist cliches, meant the PC apparatchiks in academia and local government loved him.
His policy choices as President are exactly that - regurgitating the same old leftist fantasies. His politics show no signs of being new, different or having any deep thought applied. They are simply the same old leftist pablum and fantasy we have seen from Jimmy Carter onward. Obama has simply added some devious Chicago-style political calculation to go with it.
I saw it yesterday in Southwestern SC. At 12:05 pm the theater was also packed. I haven’t seen a packed theater since my last Gene Autry film.
This line:
“Not only did the movie end leaving me scared and a bit depressed, I left knowing that it wasn’t just Obama that allowed so much to change to this country’s detriment. I left with the sinking feeling that our country’s vaunted separation of powers failed us when we needed it most”
couldn’t be more true.
Great post.
Making me think at lunch time.
But I forgive you.
Everyone who has seen “2016” needs to talk up the movie to other people and friends. People need to be encouraged to see this film, particularly the clueless and independents.
If I wanted to take over a country, the first thing I would do is destroy or take control of the energy infrastructure, including mines, wells, power plants, and all of the transmission and distribution systems involved. Next would be food, taking away the ability of individuals to grow, hunt, and remove their ability to live off of the land. Next would be access to clean water, because everything living requires it to stay alive. The final assault would be the remove the ability of people to defend themselves, by preventing them access to weapons, thus disarming a populace who may rebel against the regime.
Everything that I lsted above is coming to pass here in the US, by word and deed. The current government is not willing to relinqiush control, and are willing to do anything to maintain that control, consequences be damned.
“I thought the movie gave Obama too much credit for actually having a thorough ideology.”
Perhaps so. I saw it yesterday, and one point stands out. A white person of whom so little was known would have NEVER been elected like he was.
His handlers are evil, but not stupid. They new the people prone to voting for him would not bother to research Obama because they were to exited about being a part of the historic group that elected America’s “first black president”.
I came away with two thoughts - D’Souza drinks a lot of coffee and we had a very well dressed Comptroller who doesn’t like bagels. He left a whole basket alone while he talked.
“If I wanted to take over a country, the first thing I would do is destroy or take control of the energy infrastructure, including mines, wells, power plants, and all of the transmission and distribution systems involved.”
That works in both a hostile military action way, and a hostile corporate takeover way. I’m not sure what way you mean, but the left is taking over this country with something more slow, sinister, and strategic.
They took over the media and education system to corrupt the young and impressionable minds of this country for generations.
Now many people already in charge of those institutions thinks how the left wants them to, not for themselves.
Please don’t give credit to Coburn. He was on the Senate Judiciary with Obama, McCaskill and Hillary that vetted McCain but not Obama. In fact, he helped Obama by including a line in the Resolution that said some candidates have been excluded who were actually eligible for the presidency. Some say Obama added that, but Coburn didn’t take it out.
He is a coward and perhaps a self-serving one.
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