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2016 Obama's America documentary

Crocoshark said:
I just watched the film and posted a long summary on another board which I can cut and paste here

First the documentarian who made it talks about his past growing up in india and moving to America and mentions how his past is similar to Obama's; same birth year, etc. Then he describes things Obama did once he got into office which he describes as baffling; returning busts of Churchill and Reagan siding with Palestine in a Palestine-Israel talk, siding with Argentina over Britain on who gets the Falkland Islands thereby breaking an agreement to side with Britain and blocking drilling in America while making way for drilling in Brazil and I think Argentina.

The film goes into the political atmosphere, history and culture of Kenya, and the ideas of new Anti-colonialism which rich countries as having gotten their wealth by stealing from poor countries and which opposes capitalism. His brother, though wasn't anti-colonialist, and it's pointed out Obama hasn't helped him directly. It quotes interviews with Obama's extended family which say Obama's views ere just like his father's and the film stressed a lot how Obama idolized the person he imagined his absentee father to be. I remember very little from the movie actually detailing his father's views on colonialism. A friend who I saw it with said it quoted an article by his father but neither of us could remember what it was. I'm sure someone who's seen it will fill me in in reply to this thread.

The film claimed Obama was strongly influenced by Frank Marshal Davis, a radical communist, which they say Obama refers to as Frank 22 times in his book (Dreams from my father) and mentions other connections such as William Ayers, a terrorist who was Obama's professor and the film said was in contact with Obama up until Obama's presidential campaign, and Obama's pastor Jerimiah Wright which the film described as the religious branch of African anti-colonialism. The film described these and other men as "Obama's Founding Fathers".

The film cited a quote from one of Obama's books saying something like, I paraphrase, "A government can tax its citizens 100% if it provides to take care of them." The film concludes Obama is a communist.

The film cited Obama's withdrawal from Iraq and his inaction in preventing from Iran from going Nuclear, as well as the aforementioned anti-colonial influence to say that he will allow the middle east to run out of control and in four years become, as it called it, "The United States Of Islam". Overall, the film says Obama's agenda is to reduce America's influence in developing countries, especially military influence.

The film interviews a federal auditor (I think) who compares Obama's spending to the spending of presidents leading up to; former presidents spending something like 5 trillion annually, and Obama being in the running up 15 trillion (I'm fuzzy) The film than claims Obama is deliberately trying to bring down America by method of bankruptcy. The man they interviewed says that if this continues we'll reach a tipping point. I am not convinced Obama is deliberately trying to destroy America but deliberate or not, if those numbers are true that my be a legitimate concern about debt and fiscal irresponsibility

The film claimed that Obama got the presidency because being a charismatic, non-angry black man endeared people to him more than they would had it been a non-angry white. I feel there were other factors at work than his race, but okay, whatever.

In summary the film's central claim is that Obama is an anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist who views America as the 1% vs. the global 99% (an analogy used in the film) and is trying to continue the ideas of his father. Its evidence is quotes from his book Dreams From My Father, quotes from interviews with his extended family, and political affiliations of people in his personal life and mentioned in his books, all allegedly explaining his non-interventionalism, big spending, and other actions in office.


I thought it's evidence seemed a bit indirect; they never just outright asked someone who knew Obama if he really saw America as a colonial power to be opposed.
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Bill Ayers was Obama’s professor? Was this at Columbia? It’s news to me.
 
The film is part of the Zionist propaganda campaign to remove Obama from office. The producer is the same one who made Schindler’s List.
Bottom line: Obama won’t attack Syria or Iran, but Romney will.
 
MaGZ said:
The film is part of the Zionist propaganda campaign to remove Obama from office. The producer is the same one who made Schindler’s List.
Bottom line: Obama won’t attack Syria or Iran, but Romney will.
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Well, now we know! This had NEVER occurred to me. Now I'm going to stay up unable to sleep worrying about the Zionist propaganda campaign! But first - right away - I'm going to go all around the office and turn every desk upside down to be sure there are no small zionist infiltrators hiding anywhere. Where do they typically hide?

Do they like trash cans? AC ducts? Closets? Safes? Briefcases? How big are they? Can they hide inside a ballpoint pen? Under a key on a computer keyboard?
 
dudalb said:
I avoid political documentaries of all political opinions;I don't like paying 10 bucks to see biased propaganda when I can get all I want on the Internet for free....
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Dude, that is totally anti-capitalism!
 
Travis said:
For some reason conservatives think that ideology is genetic. I suspect this misunderstanding of reality is also what leads them to call evolution "evilution."
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I'm not saying I agree with the film, but that's a strawman. The film GAVE the reasons for thinking Obama shares his dad's political views, i.e. interviewed relatives in Kenya that said Obama and his father had identical political views.
 
Originally Posted by Travis
For some reason conservatives think that ideology is genetic. I suspect this misunderstanding of reality is also what leads them to call evolution "evilution."

Crocoshark said:
I'm not saying I agree with the film, but that's a strawman. The film GAVE the reasons for thinking Obama shares his dad's political views, i.e. interviewed relatives in Kenya that said Obama and his father had identical political views.
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What? So his political views didn't evolve?
 
mhaze said:
Originally Posted by Travis
For some reason conservatives think that ideology is genetic. I suspect this misunderstanding of reality is also what leads them to call evolution "evilution."



What? So his political views didn't evolve?
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So Barack Obama Sr. was a centrist Democrat as well?
 
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