‘Obama’ documentary raises many questions

Viewers were able to “follow the roots” of Obama in the “2016, Obama’s America” film based on a bestselling book by well-known Liberty University speaker Dinesh D’Souza.

D’Souza, a former staffer for President Ronald Reagan, is now president of King’s College in New York and author of several books, including “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” the basis for “2016.” The book claims Obama’s beliefs are rooted in the anti-colonialism of his late father, a Kenyan academic who was largely absent from the president’s life.

The film was featured at Lynchburg’s Regal River Ridge Stadium 14, which opened its doors to D’Souza’s anti-colonial, anti-white and anti-American Barack Obama.

“I thought it was a really good film—kind of nerve-wracking though,” strategic intelligence major Tanner Mulligan said.

According to D’Souza, “Only by the dreams of the father can we understand the dreams of the son.”

Barack Obama Sr. was a leftist Kenyan scholar who had eight children with four different women. He left Obama Jr. when his son was two years old and only went to see him once. He died in a car accident while his son was in college.

To dig into the influence of Obama’s father, D’ Souza seeks the opinion of Daniel Pipes, a New York University psychology professor who has studied the impact of absent fathers on children.

“He has tension between the Americanism and his Africanism,” Pipes said. “He himself is an intersection of major political forces in his own psychology.”

Convinced that “we are all shaped by our past,” D’Souza decides to follow “the roots of Obama,” traveling to Kenya, Indonesia and Hawaii to find answers about Obama’s political, spiritual and genealogical background. D’Souza reinforces how Obama’s father and several other communist and liberal mentors could have shaped the president’s worldview.

“I don’t know if what he is saying is true, but I think it is very feasible because I do believe Obama is a socialist,” Mulligan said.

D’ Souza argues that such influences have been reflected in decisions such as not taking a “meaningful step” against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and letting Argentina reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British.

The slogan of the film, “love him, hate him, you don’t know him,” pretends to attract people from all political aisles. However, once the film begins, dark clouds and frightening music reveal D’Souza’s anti-Obama inclinations, leaving a bad feeling of what another four years of an Obama presidency could look like. w

“It is scary! We need to take him out of office,” Lynchburg citizen Gail Saddens said.
According to an article from The Atlanta Journal, the film was not backed by any Hollywood movie studio. In fact, reviews were mostly negative. The documentary premiered in Houston, not Los Angeles or New York. Despite its unconventional release, the movie is now among the most successful political documentaries of all time—and it doesn’t show signs of cooling down ahead of the presidential election.

Produced by Gerald R. Molen, the controversial film was not distributed in the traditional manner.

“2016, Obama’s America is disturbingly necessary,” CBS reported.

Consequently, it is currently the top standing movie for advance ticket sales, according to online ticketing service Fandango, and it is already the No. 12 political documentary of all time, the Hollywood Reporter writes.

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