The movie Obama's America 2016 is available on DVD at Redbox kiosks for the benefit of anyone who didn't see it in a theater. The predictions Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan make in the movie, should Obama win a second term, are scarier than all the Halloween movies shown on AMC in the past month combined.
President Barack Obama's behavior baffled Mr. D'Souza as it was inconsistent with anything in American history. So D'Souza he set out to try to find an explanation, and he documents his research in the movie:
I realized I was trying to fit Obama, as many people do, into American History. But the clue is in the title To Obama's autobiography, "Dreams From My Father." I realized that Obama's father might be the central character in Obama's search for identity, in his search for who he is.
In the movie he makes a persuasive argument that the anti-colonial beliefs of Barack Obama Sr. played a significant role in shaping Barry's feelings toward the United States. But the movie is not without credible critics. One such critic is Jack Cashill who, you'll remember from a previous post, made the case that Bill Ayers ghost wrote Obama's autobiography and that it was Ayers' skill and intelligence on display in that book, not Obama's.
In D'Souza Can't Quite Accept the Real Obama Cashill theorizes that it was Barack's mom Ann who had more influence and who ultimately radicalized him:
To make his case, D'Souza tells the reader of Ann's "white-bread upbringing in the Midwest" but fully ignores her adolescent evolution in Seattle into a garden-variety leftist with an anti-American grudge. That she met Obama Sr. in Russian class tells us where Ann was heading even before they met.
Furthermore, D'Souza in the movie explains that Ann's dad, young Barack's white granddad, was the one who picked radical communist Frank Marshall Davis for Barack's mentor. Mr. Davis, Bill Ayers, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Jeremia Wright all likely found it easy to influence a young Barack Obama in search of a father figure.
One interesting anecdote in the movie possibly explains why Obama returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the Brits as one of his first presidential acts. Winston Churchill did not hold a warm spot in Obama's heart because it was he who sent the troops who squelched the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s. (Though this theory was new to me, it has been around a while. And Obama supporters have tried hard to minimize or refute that assertion.)
For more analysis from D'Souza, see How Obama Thinks, a Forbes article from 2010.
Hopefully, Mr. D'Souza's fears will become moot on Tuesday, November 6, by the time elections returns are known.
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