2016: Obama's America | Official Movie Site

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Film based on a New York Times Bestseller about ObaMa0

Opening in a theatre near you!

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Dinesh Dsouza a well known pseudoconservative tool

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A Powerful Movie

Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie
theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie "2016," based on
Dinesh D'Souza's best-selling book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." Where
I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be
mentioned, much less shown.

Every seat in the theater was filled, even though there had been an
earlier showing that day, and more showings were scheduled for the
rest of the afternoon and evening. I had to sit on a staircase in the
balcony, but it was worth it.

The audience was riveted. You could barely hear a sound from them, or
detect a movement, and certainly not smell popcorn. Yet the movie had
no bombast, no violence, no sex and no spectacular visual effects.

The documentary itself was fascinating, as Dinesh D'Souza presented
the story of Barack Obama's life and view of the world, in a very
conversational sort of way, illustrating it with visits to people and
places around the world that played a role in the way Obama's ideas
and beliefs evolved.

It was refreshing to see how addressing adults as adults could be
effective, in an age when so many parts of the media address the
public as if they were children who need a constant whirlwind of
sounds and movements to keep them interested.

Dinesh D'Souza's own perspective, as someone born in India who came to
America and became an American, provided a special insight into the
way people from the Third World often perceive or misperceive the
United States and the Western world.

That Third World perspective is Obama's perspective, D'Souza
demonstrates in this documentary, as in his book -- and it is a
perspective that is very foreign to that of most Americans, which may
be why some believe that Obama was born elsewhere.

D'Souza is convinced that the president was born in Hawaii, as he
claims, but argues that not only Obama's time living in Indonesia and
his emotionally charged visits to his father's home in Africa, have
had a deep and impassioned effect on his thinking.

The story of Barack Obama, however, is not just the story of how one
man came to be the way he is. It is a much larger story about how
millions of Americans came to vote for, and some to idolize, a man
whose fundamental beliefs and values are so different from their own.

For every person who sees Obama as somehow foreign there are many
others who see him as a mainstream American political figure -- and an
inspiring one.

This D'Souza attributes to Barack Obama's great talents in rhetoric,
and his ability to project an image that resonates with most
Americans, however much that image may differ from, or even flatly
contradict, the reality of Obama's own ideological view of the world.

What is that ideological view?

The Third World, or anti-colonial, view is that the rich nations have
gotten rich by taking wealth from the poor nations. It is part of a
much larger vision, in which the rich in general have gotten rich by
taking from the poor, whether in their own country or elsewhere.

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. Some of these people appear in this
documentary movie, as they have appeared throughout the formative
phases of Barack Obama's life.

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is just the most visible and vocal of a
long line of such people who played crucial roles in Obama's
evolution. When Jeremiah Wright thundered about how "white folks'
greed runs a world in need," he captured the essence of the Third
World or anti-colonial vision.

But many of the other mentors, allies, family and friends of Barack
Obama over the years were of the same mindset, as this documentary
demonstrates.

More important, the movie "2016" demonstrates how so many of Obama's
actions as President of the United States, which D'Souza had predicted
on the basis of his study of Obama's background, are perfectly
consistent with that ideology, however inconsistent it is with the
rhetoric that gained him the highest office in the land.

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2012/08/22/a_powerful_movie