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egbertowillies

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Mon Aug 27, 2012, 11:28 AM Aug 2012

Obama’s America: 2016 Review – Want a “conservative” in 2012, “radical” Obama your best choice

Bryan Henry, a Kingwood resident and educator sent me this review of the documentary “Obama’s America: 2016”. He has authorized me to distribute it online “if I felt it needs to be”. Are you kidding? This is one of the best reviews of any movie of this type that I have seen to date.

Bryan did not attempt to attack the author Dinesh D’Souza inasmuch as D’Souza’s knowingly false assertions all over broadcast TV left ample reasons to do so. He took a completely objective view of the film and used his knowledge of history and government to put it into perspective.

I think before anyone watches the movie they should read his review so they can watch the movie in the context of reality instead of the context of some expansion of a plausible imaginative view of President Obama’s history.

Bryan Henry’s final paragraph is prescient.

The film concludes by asking the audience to consider, given all that D’Souza has now told them, what America will be like in 2016 if Obama is re-elected. Well, for all of Obama’s anti-colonial and Marxist influences, we actually already know what America will look like in 2016 if Obama is re-elected. President Obama wants to preserve Medicare and Social Security, invest in education and infrastructure, and reduce the deficit by cutting some military spending and raising some taxes on the wealthiest 1%. The real question is: what will America be like in 2016 if Romney is elected? The Republican Party has been so radicalized by the Tea Party that it no longer resembles the GOP of Reagan or Bush. In fact, if you want to vote for a “conservative” in 2012, the “radical” Obama is probably your best choice.


Read the entire review HERE.
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Obama’s America: 2016 Review – Want a “conservative” in 2012, “radical” Obama your best choice (Original Post) egbertowillies Aug 2012 OP
Everybody is influenced by their parents in one way or another Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2012 #1

Proud Liberal Dem

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1. Everybody is influenced by their parents in one way or another
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 11:46 AM
Aug 2012

However, like the reviewer, I can't draw a straight line from President Obama's influences from his father, who he met only once, and supposed "anti-colonial" policies that he has pursued as POTUS or what he might pursue in a second term.

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