Obama documentary a scary look at, “What if …”

Who is Barack Obama — really? What does he have in mind for this country — if he wins a second term and doesn’t ever have to face the voters again?

If you watch the first-rate documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” now playing at many theaters, you may leave thinking you know the answers to those questions. Or, you may think the “Mulatto Messiah” has been unfairly smeared. But I predict you WILL leave, shaken and scared.

This film, written (with a collaborator) by conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza,  and narrated throughout by D’Souza, explores in a mostly calm, mostly dispassionate way, the life of Barack Hussein Obama, born in Hawaii of a White American mother and a black African father. What and who influenced this mixed-race young man as he grew up? Which parent did he favor? After all, his father left him and his mother two years after his birth to attend college in the continental U.S., and one year later Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Denham were divorced.

Interviewing Americans who knew Obama; a half-brother of his who still lives in Kenya, his father’s native land (no, D’Souza doesn’t suggest that Barack Jr. might have been born in Kenya, although many of us still have our doubts); black African radicals whom the young Barack Jr. befriended; even a Native Hawaiian militant who has never forgiven the United States for “seizing” the Hawaiian Islands in 1893, D’Souza depicts a boy who grew up being dragged from his native state, to Indonesia, to the U.S., always with leftist liberal views being drilled into his head. His father and mother both seemed to have carried a grudge against White people (despite the fact that she was White herself).

In their version of the world, the United States and Europe are responsible for all the world’s woes, colonialism being an unmitigated racist atrocity for which the White race must constantly make amends and offer apologies. Barack Obama Jr. appears to confirm much of that, perhaps not in so many words, but by implication in many passages we hear him reading from the audio book version of his biography, “Dreams From My Father.” And D’Souza shows us an opinion piece that Barack Sr. once wrote for a Kenyan newspaper, declaring that achieving “equality” in society should be achieved, if necessary, by taxing wealthy people up to 100 percent of their incomes. Sound familiar?

After Stanley Ann’s and Barack Sr.’s divorce, she married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian and, like Barack Sr., a Muslim, and they went to live in Indonesia. When Soetoro, who once shared her radical, anti-White colonialist views due to his nation’s many years of being ruled by the Dutch, began to moderate them as he started to succeed in a career, she flew into a rage and divorced him, too.

As he did with the question of whether Obama was actually born in Hawaii, or possibly Kenya, D’Souza does not deal to any extent with the question of whether Obama might be secretly a Muslim, or might have been a Muslim at one time, or anything of that nature. I’m assuming that he was not trying to establish either place of birth or religious affiliation, if any; but rather, ideological leanings, how his life experience affected those leanings, and what they might be likely to produce in a second Obama term.

D’Souza shows us how the young Barack Obama, enrolled in college, sought out the company and influence of black militants, White leftist radicals, and others of similar ilk. And his own voice in the audio book version of his autobiography tells of how he knelt at the grave of his father in Kenya, on a visit there, and decided that he would continue his father’s anti-colonialist, anti-Western dreams, and try to impose them on America.

Fast-forward to Barack Obama’s meteoric rise through the Illinois Senate, to the key address at the 2004 Democratic Convention, to his anointing by the news media as “The One” when he ran for president himself in 2008, and to his election, unvetted, unknown, but tall, “cool,” and charismatic. D’Souza points out how Obama manipulated White voters who were eager to prove they were not “racist” by voting for “our first black president.” He did it by being jovial and unthreatening, unlike “angry” black leaders like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.

But then D’Souza points out, partly through additional interviews and partly through voice-overs of his own thoughts, how Obama did not follow through on his promises to America, and has occasionally let glimpses slip that suggest, if re-elected, he will move sharply to the left and try to take America with him. After all, he’ll never have to face the voters again.

This documentary is filmed and edited with considerable skill and imagination. It never has the feel of a “reality show” on TV; what you’re seeing is the real thing, in America, Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya. D’Souza traveled widely to reach people who had known Barack Obama “when,” and who could give him insights which have seldom been explored by the U.S. mainstream media.

The final few minutes of the movie are absolutely chilling. D’Souza suggests, based on his interviews and his study of Obama’s writings and public statements, what Barack Obama’s real plans for America might be, in a second term, when he would not have to worry about another re-election campaign.

Some reviewers have panned this movie, suggested that some things in it are “not true,” that it’s “boring,” etc. That is a sure sign that it has put the liberal press into panic mode. They don’t want you to see it before the election. I suspect that neither does Barack Obama.

But don’t take my statements about this movie as gospel, either. Go and see it for yourself; then judge. Check your local theater listings; it’s playing in a lot of places. It’s worth your money. One way or the other, you won’t come out of the theater regretting your attendance.

 

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