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Post by Maxf1ex on Sept 2, 2012 3:16:53 GMT -8
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Post by msguide on Sept 2, 2012 3:44:46 GMT -8
It's playing here. I'll check it out.
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Post by george1861 on Sept 2, 2012 4:14:03 GMT -8
For the most part it's a look @ who he associated with as he grew up, there is only some speculation about what the guy, unrestrained by not worrying about reelection, might do in the future. It's about his immersion with Marxisits, Communists & anti-Colonialists during his upbringing & that he really didn't grow up in the Contenental US with the typical expieriences of even growing up in the inner city, muchless the expieriences of a suburban American child. What time was spent in the US was in Hawaii where he attended a school known for leftist anti-colonial view of the US. From his time in Indonesia, through high school & college & on into adulthood, his mentor was a member of the Communist Party-USA(Thier website announced that one of them was in the White House when he got elected) & on the Terrorist Bill Ayers & the Rev. Wright. The guy is no doubt way more redical than he lets on.
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Post by Maxf1ex on Sept 2, 2012 4:25:36 GMT -8
Sounds like it might be worth viewing
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Post by george1861 on Sept 2, 2012 4:53:59 GMT -8
Saw it last weekend, usually don't read political books or watch obviously political movies.
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Post by msguide on Sept 2, 2012 11:47:10 GMT -8
We just got home from seeing it. The film traces the roots of Obama, Sr (who barely knew his namesake son) from Kenya through his education here and how his political views developed. He had so little influence over his son, it is a wonder where the President's experience comes from as told in the book Dreams From My Father. If anything, the President's ideas were more likely shaped by his mother and the President's unusual education.
In any case, it makes sense why the President doesn't seem to own his political positions (something I've said since before he was elected). He is merely parroting what he has heard or read.
If there was a weak point in the film, it is that D'Sousa relies a little too much on visual images to explain the differences between the anti colonialism of the Founding Fathers and the anti colonialism of black liberationists.
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