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August 23, 2012 at 6:55 PM #20080August 24, 2012 at 6:34 AM #750696
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Participantcrickets chirping….
August 24, 2012 at 7:18 AM #750697ocrenter
ParticipantDinesh D’Souza was given front page treatment by UT a few weeks ago, nuff said.
August 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM #750705EconProf
ParticipantI’m keeping an open mind and looking forward to seeing this movie.
Anyone know where it is showing?August 24, 2012 at 8:39 PM #750706CardiffBaseball
ParticipantI keep hearing for a documentary without a huge promotional push it’s doing pretty well but I had to drive to downtown Orlando to watch it. So if it doesn’t get more widespread this week, it’s going away soon.
August 25, 2012 at 10:05 AM #750711Participantanother front page treatment for the movie in today’s UT.
Doug Manchester REALLY need you to see this movie.
August 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM #750725ctr70
ParticipantIt’s playing at the Mission Valley AMC 20, I’ll have to check it out.
August 27, 2012 at 12:38 AM #750736moneymaker
ParticipantI’ll wait till it’s @ redbox, along with most of the recently released movies.
August 27, 2012 at 6:55 AM #750739briansd1
Guest[quote=CardiffBaseball]I keep hearing for a documentary without a huge promotional push it’s doing pretty well but I had to drive to downtown Orlando to watch it. So if it doesn’t get more widespread this week, it’s going away soon.[/quote]
I won’t be watching it until its free on Netflix so I can use FF on the remote.
But it’s interesting that one would likely have to drive to an independent theater in a liberal enclave to watch this kind of movie (or depending on your area, go to where indie films are frequently shown).
August 27, 2012 at 7:11 PM #750774Participant[quote=briansd1][quote=CardiffBaseball]I keep hearing for a documentary without a huge promotional push it’s doing pretty well but I had to drive to downtown Orlando to watch it. So if it doesn’t get more widespread this week, it’s going away soon.[/quote]
I won’t be watching it until its free on Netflix so I can use FF on the remote.
But it’s interesting that one would likely have to drive to an independent theater in a liberal enclave to watch this kind of movie (or depending on your area, go to where indie films are frequently shown).[/quote]
It did surprisingly well this weekend. Per Theater avg. was #1, but with limited theaters it was #8. Now while it doesn’t have the mass release and marketing that Farenheit 911 did, bear in mind that 122 million in sales didn’t change the outcome of the election. So I don’t see the film as some kind of bellwether.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/26/box-office-report-expendables-2-2016-obamas-america/
August 28, 2012 at 11:56 AM #750807ParticipantI saw it and it was interesting. Like another poster said it was not a one sided vicious kind of immature attack. There was no “birther” crap or any of those conspiracies. Dinesh D’Souza is an intelligent scholarly guy on the right. It was interesting seeing some of Obama’s early influences and mentors. And it’s interesting seeing Dinesh’s viewpoint & opinions being a immigrant from India.
I’d love to see Obama debate Dinesh more than I would Obama debate Romney!
August 28, 2012 at 5:07 PM #750816GuestHere’s a joke for you guys.
I went to see to Roosevelt house in Hyde Park, NY with my nieces. The Park Ranger said that Roosevelt was our only disabled president. She corrected herself and said “well, physically disabled.”
I asked who the mentally disabled president was. We all had a good laugh, haha…
(Everybody was thinking George W. Bush)
August 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM #750893all
Participant[quote=CardiffBaseball]Anyone go see this film?
I was a little surprised I was expecting some kind of venomous Obama is a monster type stuff, but Dinesh D’Souza actually succeeds in showing the human side of someone he disagrees with on just about everything. The idea was to explore the roots of Obama to determine how two gentlemen with so much in common came to such vastly different worldviews on liberty and the United States mission.
– Both born the same year
– Both from countries going through a fierce anti-colonialist streak as nations who’d recently broken off from Great Britain. D’Souza is not a birther suggesting Obama was born in Kenya but rather exploring why the mission of his father and the anti-colonialists was so important to him.
– Both graduated from Ivy League undergrad the same year (takes Obama’s word that he actually attended Columbia when he said he did)
– Both married the same year[/quote]The US did break off from GB, like India did, but I’m guessing you are talking about Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother and his Anglo grandparents, then the mother and her Indonesian husband (former Dutch colony) and finally the Anglo grandparents. If I’m not mistaken he spent a couple of days with his father when he was a kid and he first went to Kenya in his late twenties. It is a major stretch to see an Indian immigrant and Obama as people with common background.
August 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM #750913Guest[quote=craptcha] It is a major stretch to see an Indian immigrant and Obama as people with common background.[/quote]
They are both dark and the other events line up, so they really must have common backgrounds.
August 30, 2012 at 10:26 PM #750971Participant[quote=craptcha][quote=CardiffBaseball]
The US did break off from GB, like India did, but I’m guessing you are talking about Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother and his Anglo grandparents, then the mother and her Indonesian husband (former Dutch colony) and finally the Anglo grandparents. If I’m not mistaken he spent a couple of days with his father when he was a kid and he first went to Kenya in his late twenties. It is a major stretch to see an Indian immigrant and Obama as people with common background.[/quote]
Clearly you haven’t seen the film where it’s Obama’s actual words from his book that talks about the struggles of his fathers being such a strong part of him? It’s kind of like the theme of the whole movie….WHY? Why on earth is Obama so influenced by this man who spent almost NO time with him. Furthermore it was suggested his Indonesian father began to have some career success working for US Oil Companies. Stanley Ann resented this as he was constantly trying to get her to attend the local parties with the US executives. She truly was some kind of mixed up in the head commie, meaning she really believed in that crap from the sounds of it. So she sent Barry back home to Hawaii, she didn’t want that kind of person to be raising her son. (a guy making a good salary, rising in a corporate job, etc).
So yes under no circumstance should Obama have been influenced at all by such an absentee father, but D’Souza felt that mom was really trying to get that influence into her son. In other words for what reason does he identify so strongly with his Kenyan ancestors?
Also her father made sure to have young Barry spend what was it 3 days per week with Frank Marshall Davis? Now some conspiracy theorists who posted the nude photos of Stanley Ann, taken by Frank Marshall Davis, suggest he is the actual father, but D’Souza doesn’t go that route, he simply wonders who would want a person like Frank as a mentor to young kid? I grew up in a UAW household with a father who HATES republicans with every fiber in his being even at 64, and he wouldn’t have imagined taking me to be mentored by some strange commie three times per week.
All he’s really trying to show is who had an influence on BHO and why. Good to know you and D’Souza are asking the same question, however I suspect he’s more interested in the answer than you.
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