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2016: Obama’s America

Friday, Karla and I went to the Cinemax in Victoria and saw this movie by Dinesh D’Souza, an Indian-American born in Mumbia, India to Catholic Indian parents from Goa, India. At 17 he came to the US on scholarship to attend high school in Patagonia, AZ and Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1983. Mr. D’Souza is President of King’s College, New York and a well respected Christian conservative writer and commentator. This movie is an adaptation of his 2010 book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, and follows closely Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father.

This is not a “birther movie” or a condemnation of Liberal or even Socialist policies. Mr. D’Souza has excellent insight into Barack Hussein Obama’s core beliefs of anti-colonialism because of his early life in India and his exposure to anti-colonialism sentiment even in his own family. His approach to Obama and his beliefs is sympathetic, trying to understand and explain, rather than confrontational. Barack Obama had a difficult childhood, abandoned by his Kenyan Socialist father and later by his American leftist mother who was living in Indonesia. In Obama’s Dreams From My Father, he writes of his search for identity and his desire to associate with radical leftists, minority and foreign students and Marxist professors. Mr. D’Souza traces Barry Soetoro’s often painful development into Barack Hussein Obama by using Obama’s book and interviews with people that knew him and his family. Obama’s desire to identify with his father and his Kenyan roots explain much of his present attitudes and actions. Obama’s brother George gives an interesting perspective on ‘anti-colonialism’. This is an excellent movie and a learning experience.

The advertising tag-line: Love him or hate him, you don’t know him! does much to describe this movie. I recommend that every American see this movie, regardless of what your political opinions or party affiliation might be, you owe it to yourself to see this.  In fact, I’ll go so far to say that if you have any love or loyalty to the United States of America, or have any desire to see us be a successful economy and nation, it is your DUTY to see this movie so you can understand the profound effect that ‘anti-colonialism’ has on Barack Hussein Obama and how it influences his policies. The projection of how four more years of his policies will affect America is truly frightening.

Note: I want to thank Brenda Carter and her daughter Caitlin for their efforts to encourage Cinemax to bring this movie to Victoria. Judging by the first day, first matinee turn-out Friday at 2:20 p.m., this should be a big money-maker for them. They should pay you commissions!