Review/Opinion- 2016:Obama's America
It's confirmed, we have proof, America will transform itself into a communist country by 2016 and Obama will serve as its most fond dictator - or so is the message of the documentary "Obama's America 2016". D Souza and his team attempts to walk through Obama's past and show us how it influences his actions and policies. First forty minutes of the documentary explores young Obama's life, influence of his absentee father and how it shaped his thoughts (base on his own book - Dreams from my Father).
He follows his life back to Kenya, Indonesia, about his father's accidental death and about his mentor who supposedly was a pro-communist. He also points out that Obama Sr. wrote a pro-anticolonial paper and suggested increased taxes upto 100%. So? D Souza who pointed out the similarities with his childhood in India, however D Souza was able to change his opinion on pro-socialistic thought processes that he grew up with, but Obama was influenced by it, even though he hardly lived with his father. He also claims that Obama was pro-seperatist when he grew up in Hawaii, with practically no-evidence whatsoever. All this, is quite a logic stretch.
Apart from these unsubstantiated personal attacks, there are so many factual inaccuracies and careful omissions to construct the innuendo. D Souza suggests that Obama sides with radical Jihadists, that he did not help a friendly regime(Hosni Mubarak, the dictator) wants to reduce military spending(which is already 5 times as much as the next country China), reduce presence of military in Iraq and Afghanistan and hand over the power to rest of the world. Hold on, that pretty much sounds ridiculous. What do conservatives want? Wage war all the time and leave the world in a state of perpetual chaos?
Apart from policies in middle east, in the debate of national debt, he claims that Obama increased the national debt significantly, with the inner lining like, "Hey, America, Obama is trying to take all your money and give it to the poor". Everybody who does their own fact checking and does not get all the news from fox know that when Obama came into power, bush left out a 1.2 Trillion dollar / year debt and a financial crisis on top of it. All based on the conservative policies that D Souza camp argue for.
I don't understand the difficulty that the conservatives have in understanding Obama's motives as he is well-meaning to the whole world except conservatives. All i can tell is America has never been or wanted to be imperialistic, pro-colonial(American Indepence from British, Hey?) and always has been a entitlement nation(Obama-care won't make it any different. Trivia - this was first put forward by a conservative republican candidate).
P.S At-least Obama was not caught in a private dinner video talking how he will not be the president of those 53% Americans who want all these tax cuts. Romney did call 47% of America as lazy and he won't care about them. Now it could just be gaffe, but I couldn't resist bringing it up.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016:_Obama's_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Father
http://www.dailykos.net/archives/003167.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_India
http://reason.com/archives/2006/06/06/the-rise-and-fall-of-indian-so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Unbound
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyJ_k2z-nTA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_Mubarak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures