The unfortunate thing is, the people that NEED to see this movie will be the people that DON’T see this movie.
It is supposed to start showing here on the 24th. My Mom and I are planning to go and hopefully bring the rest of the family. It should be worth the 50 mile drive.
The concept of the book was to turn his life into a narrative about race, so the "mother from Kansas, father from Kenya" and the "search for my father" stuff was played up and made into something more than it actually was in Obama's life.
Now Dinesh, who's got a real fixation on the British Empire picks up on that and makes Obama into an anti-colonialist, even arguing that he doesn't care about his brother because his brother doesn't share their father's anti-colonial views.
If there's one place where the "narcissism" diagnosis fits it's here: Obama doesn't care about his brother for psychological reasons, not political ones. It's not the way that family was -- if it even was a family.
The problem with Dinesh's thesis is that you can't prove it or disprove it. A lot of Black and White radicals were drawn to anti-colonial movements in the 1960s. It's natural that a half-Black half-White son of an African anti-colonialist would be interested in those movements. But how do you prove that this engagement was something deeper than a passing interest?
The other problem is that our assessments of empire and imperialism are bound to be more complicated than simply "for" and "against." Make the long-dead British Empire the centerpoint of contemporary American politics and people whose support you want won't follow you very far.
Whatever its factual weaknesses, it is an emotionally powerful vision, to which many people have dedicated their lives, and for which some have even risked their lives.
Isn’t it odd that where Leftist revolution against the colonizers has occurred the people of the subject country do not prosper other than the leaders of the revolution that is.
It generally is not until the Leftist are finally removed from power and free elections and capitalism is instituted that the people begin to prosper.
How is it that Leftist like Obama can not see the clear evidence of the tide of history is with capitalism. Capitalism brings the most prosperity to the most people.
Opens of Friday in the Denver Metro area. I’m going!
Thanks for the post. I just added this to my Netflix queue. It goes into the “saved” section waiting for release on DVD.
FWIW, this movie has 4.1 or 4.2 stars out of five on Netflix.
I’m disappointed by Sowell in this article.
He’s not hard-hitting as he usually is.
And he misspoke here (”Most Americans?” even the polls aren’t saying so):
—”This D’Souza attributes to Barack Obama’s great talents in rhetoric, and his ability to project an image that resonates with most Americans”
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If American only knew...
The best Obama exposure site on the net:
(by our own FReeper, Beckwith)
The Obama File
http://theobamafile.com/
The United States Library of Congress has selected
TheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collection
of Internet materials
http://theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html
Just a few of the pages:
http://www.theobamafile.com/index_next_politics.html
http://www.theobamafile.com/index_next_personal.html
http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/_family/FamilyPage.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaPsychology.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaWife.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/ObamaAssociates.htm
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaIconography.htm
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Another must-see: Dennis Michael Lynch's "They Come to America" where he points out that the biggest danger to us come from illegal aliens.
...D'Souza calls for the American right to build a traditional values coalition with what he calls "traditional Muslims,"......[D'Souza] asserts that in order to cement the necessary alliance with these "traditional" Muslims, "the right must take three critical steps. First, stop attacking Islam....
Conservatives also must also "stop holding silly seminars on whether Islam is compatible with democracy. In reality, a majority of the world's Muslims today live under democratic governments -- in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Turkey, not to mention Muslims living in Western countries. There is nothing in the Koran or the Islamic tradition that forbids democracy.' And 'if they want Sharia, let them have it." Of course, even if most Muslims today do live under democracies, to assume that this means Islam is compatible with democracy is like saying that most Russians loved Stalin's reign of terror, since they lived under his regime for so long.
But that is just a small example from one of the most poorly reasoned books I have ever read....
I saw the movie, Mr. Sowell is right.
We saw this. Very well written. As usual an excellent job by Dineesh D’Souza.
Playing near you? Click on the pie map for your area —keep clicking to zoom in....
http://www.2016themovie.com/theaters/
bump for later read
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
