Movie Review: "2016 - Obama's America"

From a friend in the US Air Force . . .

I went to go see the 2016 movie about Obama on Labor Day. It wasn't playing in our town but in the next town over. About 100 people in the audience for a 4:50 showing. Mostly all white people, a few Indian people in support of the main creator of the film, Dinesh D'Souza, an Inidan immigrant who is all too familiar with poverty and colonialism back home.

There are a few main themes I'll review next but the essence of the film was to get to the roots of Obama's development- how his vision of the world was shaped and what it is, the experiences and mentors that shaped him, and the family background that created him.

First main theme is that Obama's absentee father was fundamental to Obama's philosophy. His absentee father was always held in high regard by his mother even after they got divorced. His father was a bit of an amateur intellectual, but was more interested in anti-colonialism theory back in his home of Kenya than anything about America. He was also a polygamist and a drunkard who died in a drunk driving accident in Africa. Obama for some reason looked to his absent- and then dead- father as an example of someone who had big ideas but never fulfilled them. Where his father failed, he pledged to succeed.

The second main theme is the theory that anti-colonialism is embedded in Obama's DNA from his father. Thus, Obama's world view is skewed towards supporting people and countries from ex colonies of the recent empires. This explains a lot about his policies, namely why he gives money to places like Brazil to develop their oil industry instead of developing our own. It's why he supports the Arab uprising against the last vestiges of the British colonial rule, such as our ally Mubarak in Egypt. It's why he will not committ to stoping Iran from getting nukes, and why he wants to reduce our own nuclear arsenal. For him, the rise of other countries is a good thing, because to him, the western powers must be brought to parity with the rest of the world. In fact, since the major powers hold most of the wealth, their wealth must be redistributed to the poorer nations. This explains why Obama will not fix the economy, and why he supports the occupy wall st movement- it's not in his global world view to have a vibrant, sucessful U.S. economy. This explains his climate change cap-and-trade designs, which are blatantly constructed to punish the large powers. The anti-colonialism theory makes a lot of sense in my opinion. I'm probably not articulating it well, but when you see the movie it definitely clicks.

Third main theme is that Obama was shaped by his mentors, including a card carrying communist in his early days named Fred Davis, Bill Ayers, Rev Wright, an open revolutionary figure I can't remember, and others. I won't spend time on this since most of you know the company Obama keeps, but the film does a pretty good job and reminding people who this guy associated with. Let me just say this- there's no way Obama would get a security clearance if he was in the military. And he's the president? Wow....

Fourth main theme is that Obama got elected party because of reverse racism. What I mean by this is that people wanted to support Obama because he was black. They saw a black guy that wasn't radical, that had a convincing message of unity and hope, and that spoke well and came off as an intellectual. This made him appealing. White people in particular could "feel good" about themselves if they voted for a black guy- sort of a self vidication that they're not racist. Unlike Jesse Jackson and Sharpton, who both ran for president and didn't go anywhere because they play the race card constantly, here came Obama that seemed like he was above the fray. So starting with becoming president of Havard Law review, Obama realized that if he perfected a message of unity and hope that he would be irrestible to a country that sincerely wanted to elect the first black president to atone for the sins of the past. Culturally, America desired to elect a non white guy to prove that it trully had moved beyond race after the legacy of slavery and segragation. Obama capitalized on the opportunity, helped by Bush's disasterous second term. But America was so eager to elect an intellectual black guy that it completely ignored the rest of his background and what he truly believes in. Essentially, the majority of America was naive.

The final theme is that if Obama gets elected, the country will in far worse shape by 2016- by design. Obama care was a ploy for government takeover of the economy, which will supress it and drive up debt. Our debt will continue to balloon, and Obama couldn't care less if we end up crashing in his second term. This will begin equalizing the wealth between us and other nations, which is what Obama wants ultimately. The Islamic uprisings will lead to an Islamic caliphate with a nuclear Iran leading a new Cold War against the west. Does Obama care? No, because in his view this is a balancing force against evil America. Israel must be marginalized. Our military will be gutted. Americans will suffer. Remember- even most Americans in so called poverty are much much better off than most of the rest of the world. So does Obama really want to help the "middle class?" No- but he'll trick them to think he is before the election. In a second term, all bets are off, or as he told the Russian President, he'll have "more flexibility" after the election. D'Souza made this film to warn Americans- from a perspective that an immigrant from a former British colony understands much better than even well educated Americans.

Overall, the film is pretty devastating for Obama. I wouldn't call it the best documentary I've ever seen, but it's solid. The guy has credibility when he actually goes and talks to people like Obama's half brother (who is shunned by Obama because he isn't anti-colonial), people that knew his father in Kenya, etc. Some of the imagery is suggestive but much of the source material comes from Obama's own book- Dreams from my Father. That's hard to dispute. 

NOTICE to my Democrat friends:  If you vote for Obama and he gets reelected, and even half of what is mentioned above comes true, there will be consequences. Many were obviously suckered into voting for him the first time like so many else- hypnotized by his masquerade. Many also fall into the naive camp for believing that Obama is some sort of moderate and somehow less dangerous than a Republican. The rest of us understood very well what was going on and tried to raise the alarm about this guy in 2008, but you did not heed us. Four years later, are you ready to concede that we were right? The least you can do to repay us is to not vote for Obama again. We're not even asking you to vote for Romney. Just don't vote for Obama because you know not what you are voting for! Unless you see the movie...

Some lady made the comment after the movie that "the people who need to see this aren't here." She's 100% right. Hopefully it comes out on TV before the election. It's doing pretty well at the box office but the people who should see this would rather go see the other garbage Hollywood puts out.

Lastly, I'm angry at McCain. He didn't stand a chance really, but he should have went down swinging. He should have been smart enough to know it was hopeless, but that he needed to warn everyone else for the next go around. He could have really went nuclear on Obama but instead he played it nice and got whipped. I would have respected him 10 times more if he called it straight like the Maverick he used to be. Now he's just washed up. Let's hope Romney has more balls in the home stretch. But thank God the framers of the constitution created the balance of powers between branches of government. Somehow, more than 200 years ago, they understood what could happen through the abuse of the executive branch and designed a system to help keep it in check. If it weren't for the House Republicans holding the House we'd be much worse off by now.