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Old 09-07-2012, 08:08 PM
 
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This is one of those $2 bargain movie specials like In search of Noah's Ark right?


If it is full price can I yell out when it says crap that isn't true or is out of context?

No one went broke underestimating public taste.
P. T. Barnum
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Old 09-07-2012, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Ohio
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Have you seen the movie?
Why would I ask if I had?

Maybe I should go and yell out Bullhockey when it says something incorrect.
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Old 09-07-2012, 10:15 PM
 
Location: Alameda, CA
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Clearly, you haven't seen the movie because that is not what it's about. You may be doing the interpreting.

He doesn't interpret anything. He takes Obama's own words and puts them into a historical global context.

I wish people who didn't know what they are talking about wouldn't malign a good, thoughtful presentation. It is NOT biased (but of course liberals can't conceive of such a thing because everything they put forth IS biased.)
I haven't seen the movie but I've read a lot about D'Souza theories over the years and seen interviews with D'Souza talking about his theories. The following from the American Thinker

D'Souza argues that Obama's policies can be easily traced to this worldview. Critics will no doubt huff that D'Souza is engaging in ridiculous pop psychology, particularly in his attempt to parallel his own experiences with colonialism in India to those of some of Obama's surrogates and of Obama's father. Perhaps.
Read more: Articles: Review: 2016: Obama's America

I will stand by my statement. D'Souza is projecting his own life experience onto Obama.
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Old 09-08-2012, 01:50 AM
 
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Default Obama Movie Killing it Despite Negative Press

Obama Movie Killing it Despite Negative Press : Political Outcast

The movie is taken right from Obama's book. The best part is Obama put his book on audio and we get to hear the facts in Obama's words. How he took his father's dreams to be his own and his father was an anti-colonist.

Obama's brother does not hold the same ideology as Obama does but then Barack Sr. fathered him with a different mother. Barack's mother was still holding Barack Sr, in esteem even though he was already married to 2 women when he married her and left her and married another woman. The father is really a mess IMO. The whole family is mixed up. Obama has step brothers and sisters from both his mother and father but more from his father. Just to figure out the family is worth seeing the movie if nothing else.

If you don't want to go to the movie you can read D'Souza's book. Get it at the library.

BARNES & NOBLE | Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream by Dinesh D'Souza, Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company | NOOK Book (eBook), Hardcover, Audiobook
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Old 09-08-2012, 01:56 AM
 
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I haven't seen the movie but I've read a lot about D'Souza theories over the years and seen interviews with D'Souza talking about his theories. The following from the American Thinker

D'Souza argues that Obama's policies can be easily traced to this worldview. Critics will no doubt huff that D'Souza is engaging in ridiculous pop psychology, particularly in his attempt to parallel his own experiences with colonialism in India to those of some of Obama's surrogates and of Obama's father. Perhaps.
Read more: Articles: Review: 2016: Obama's America

I will stand by my statement. D'Souza is projecting his own life experience onto Obama.

IF you go to the movie D'Souza does say he and Obama came from the same background so he understands him more than someone who grew up in the states. Remember Obama lived a time in Indonesia and with foreign people. What most Americans mistakenly think is Obama is like any other African American that grew up in the states, he is not. He has a totally different background.
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Old 09-08-2012, 05:00 AM
 
Location: Deepest Darkest NZ
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I haven't seen the movie but I've read a lot about D'Souza theories over the years and seen interviews with D'Souza talking about his theories. The following from the American Thinker

D'Souza argues that Obama's policies can be easily traced to this worldview. Critics will no doubt huff that D'Souza is engaging in ridiculous pop psychology, particularly in his attempt to parallel his own experiences with colonialism in India to those of some of Obama's surrogates and of Obama's father. Perhaps.
Read more: Articles: Review: 2016: Obama's America

I will stand by my statement. D'Souza is projecting his own life experience onto Obama.
Indeed he is!
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Old 09-08-2012, 05:31 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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Why would I ask if I had?

Maybe I should go and yell out Bullhockey when it says something incorrect.
You were commenting with such authority that I thought maybe you had seen the movie and had a basis for your comments.
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Old 09-08-2012, 05:45 AM
 
Location: S.E. US
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You were commenting with such authority that I thought maybe you had seen the movie and had a basis for your comments.
That's often the problem -- too many baseless opinions.
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Old 09-08-2012, 07:21 AM
 
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I haven't seen the movie but I've read a lot about D'Souza theories over the years and seen interviews with D'Souza talking about his theories. The following from the American Thinker

D'Souza argues that Obama's policies can be easily traced to this worldview. Critics will no doubt huff that D'Souza is engaging in ridiculous pop psychology, particularly in his attempt to parallel his own experiences with colonialism in India to those of some of Obama's surrogates and of Obama's father. Perhaps.
Read more: Articles: Review: 2016: Obama's America

I will stand by my statement. D'Souza is projecting his own life experience onto Obama.
Another baseless claim by someone who admittedly has not seen the documentary.

ASSumptions are often incorrect and yours are in this case. You really should see the documentary. D'Souza's perspective is backed up by others by their first hand knowledge of a young Obama, from their knowledge of his mother and how he represented the absentee polygamist father, etc... .
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Old 09-08-2012, 09:06 AM
 
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#3 at the BO, but #69 overall for 2012 earnings.
2012 Yearly Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo

When a movie has nothing to go up against in a month that had very few good releases, of course it has a viable chance of staying in the top 10.

Now if Dark Knight, Avengers, or The Hobbit opened up this month instead, 2016 wouldn't have been a blip.
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