This movie has been reviewed hundreds, maybe even thousands, of times and published on the Internet. Bloggers of some of these reviews call the writer/ director, Dinesh D’Souza, John Sullivan, and producer Gerald Molen liars, racists, and bigots and compare the movie to the propaganda put out by the Nazis before and during WWII. Patricia Russell from West Hollywood, CA states in a comment on a review, “since this ‘movie’ was paid for and distributed by Mormons, I just consider the source” and she cites wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Molen as her source. After looking at the cited article on Wikipedia, I found no such reference to anything Mormon. It’s a shame that so many reviewers are unable to critique the movie without being vicious, degrading, and insulting.
This movie is actually about the facts that are Obama. These are the facts that were seldom or never told during the 2008 election due to the euphoria by the media that surrounded the first “black” presidential candidate. It is a story about the miracle of an unknown man who became President with only two years experience in the Illinois state house, and two years as a U.S. Senator. It’s the story of how President Obama became the person he is without any excuse or hesitation in achieving his goals. The movie lets you be the judge of where he wants to take us as a nation by 2016 should he be re-elected.
Dinesh D’Souza is an immigrant from India, a conservative, a former staff member for President Reagan, the author of a book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” on which this movie is based, and currently the president of King’s College in New York. He methodically uncovers the history of Barack’s childhood, his relationship with his mother and the influence of his absent Kenyan father. Much of Obama’s young life was spent in Indonesia with his mother and step-father, Lolo Soetoro. Later he was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Many excerpts of his child and young adulthood are taken from Obama’s first autobiography, “Dreams from My Father.”
Some of those who had the most influence on Obama D’Souza calls “Obama’s Founding Fathers.” Among them are Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist, who became his mentor; Bill Ayers, former Weather Underground unrepentant terrorist; academic Edward Said, an anti-Israel activist; a Harvard Communist professor and Brazilian, Roberto Unger; and finally Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s religious Black Liberation Theology pastor and friend for 20 years. All these men helped to define Obama’s anti-colonial worldview of America as a power that could (should) be neutralized. All the incidents pertinent to this assessment of Obama are carefully enumerated, expounded, and documented on the screen.
According to Matthew May, in his review, “Dinesh D’Souza asks viewers whether we will pursue the American dream or Barack Obama’s dream. That dream, as D’Souza argues, is the defeat [emphasis added] of oppressive colonialism that manifested itself in the rise of the United States as the dominant world power at the expense of the third world.” (American Thinker blog, August 26, 2012.)
Finally, go to this movie! It is enlightening and is not a vendetta
against Obama. It merely states those things about him that no one
bothered to find out earlier. It could have changed history then and
maybe it will now.
Personal note: I realize that anyone who disagrees with Obama is subject to being called a racist. I’m tired of that. I was raised in Wyoming. We had one black student in our class who was (as far as I know) accepted and treated the same as anyone else. I never heard a harsh word said about him. I lived in Texas for five years and never saw any instance of racism around anyone even though the area I lived in had lots of people of diverse ethnicity. Calling a person a racist is easy but hard to defend. So, let’s stop it and agree that to disagree with someone of another race is OK and does not mean they are racist.
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