奥巴马的美国

1、纪录片2016:奥巴马的美国的导演谈奥巴马对美国的真实看法。他指出,奥巴马使美国为需要削弱的殖民主义力量,为了使世界和谐均衡,作为美国总统的他,要按照他的意思改造美国。纽约时报影评:dinesh dsouza the author of the best seller “the roots of obamas rage”and a former american enterprise institute fellow is not a fan of president obama. the strident documentary “2016: obamas america”(co-direc

2、ted with john sullivan builds on mr. dsouzas 2010 cover article for forbes, which asserts that mr. obama pursues his fathers left-leaning, “anticolonial”ideals. here they are presented as flaws consistent with the senior obamas multiple relationships, alcoholism and fatal auto accident in 1982.mr. d

3、souza argues that the president has emasculated nasa, refused to take a “meaningful step”against irans nuclear ambitions and is willing to let argentina reclaim the falkland islands from the british. he paints in ominous terms the presidents conciliatory 2009 speech in cairo and envisions a forebodi

4、ng future in which the middle east becomes a “united states of islam.”echoing his views are paul vitz, a new york university psychology professor; daniel pipes, a founder of the middle east forum, who says that “the state of israel is seen as a horrible entity”by the administration; the writer and a

5、cademic paul kengor;and the former comptroller general david walker, who warns about the national debt.mr. dsouza revives figures tied to mr. obama by conservative critics in the last election, including the rev. jeremiah wright; the chicago educator, activist and former radical bill ayers; and edwa

6、rd said, a palestinian scholar and a professor of mr. obamas at columbia, who died in 2003. mr. dsouza stumbles when interviewing george obama, the presidents half-brother, an activist who voluntarily lives amid squalor in nairobi, kenya. “obama has not done anything to help you,”mr. dsouza says. “h

7、es taking care of me; im part of the world,”george obama replies.eventually, we see blunt imagery like benjamin franklins face on a burning $100 bill and a shot of the statue of liberty. not interviewed by the filmmakers are obamas political supporters, but this isnt that kind of documentary. at a s

8、how on saturday night, the films conclusion was met with claps and cries of “romney!,”“ron paul!,”“reagan!”and “another reagan!”“2016: obamas america”is rated pg (parental guidance suggested for strong language and smoking.其它影评:a rocky mountain pictures release of an oaf presentation of a gerald r.

9、molen production. produced by molen, ann balong, doug sain. executive producers,dinesh dsouza, john sullivan, christopher williams. directed, written by dineshdsouza, john sullivan, based on the book the roots of obamas rage by dsouza. with: dinesh dsouza, shelby steele, paul vitz, alice dewey, paul

10、 kengor, willy kauai, george obama, philip ochieng, joseph ojiru, daniel pipes, david walker. conservative author and political commentator dinesh dsouza attempts to distill and expand upon the theories, investigations and accusations in his bestselling tome the roots of obamas rage with the somewha

11、t less inflammatorily titled 2016: obamas america. the slickly produced and aggressively provocative docu conceivably could turn a tidy profit through limited theatrical runs and in various homescreen platforms by passionately preaching to the converted.co-directed and co-scripted by dsouza and prod

12、ucer john sullivan (expelled: no intelligence allowed, 2016 employs a brisk montage of snappy visuals,re-enactments, talking-head interviews and first-person commentary to render president obama as a clear and present danger whose socialist governing philosophy has been indelibly colored by radical

13、influences ranging from his african-born father (a rabid anti-colonialist to the notorious rev. jeremiah wright. for the bulk of its running time, the pic comes off as a cavalcade of conspiracy theories, psycho-politico conjectures and incendiary labeling - breathtakingly anti-america is only one of

14、 the epithets tossed about like so much confetti - as dsouza and assorted interviewees question obamas patriotism, deny his support of israel, decry his big government programs, and generally recycle claims, chargesand dire warnings dsouza (and others have previously promulgated in books, lectures,

15、op-ed screeds and various fox news guest appearances.to his credit, dsouza pointedly avoids the extremes of birther fanatics - early on, he announces obama was born in honolulu, and thats that.and while its highly unlikely that anyone predisposed to championing obama would be won over by the sound a

16、nd fury here, theres no gainsaying the value of 2016 as a sort of cliffs notes precis of the conservative case against there-election of our current u.s. president (whose second term, it should be noted, actually would end in january 2017.among the interviewees, conservative shelby steele - who is,

17、like obama, the product of a mixed-race marriage - stands out by sounding, if not entirely convincing, then intelligently plausible as he postulates that many white americans voted for obama in 2008 primarily to prove to themselves that they werent racist. its one of the few propositions espoused in

18、 the pic that even obama supporters might be willing to chew over as food for thought. on the other hand, perhaps it should be taken with a grain of salt: steele - author of a 2007 book titled a bound man: why we are excited about obama and why he cant win - gives short shrift to the equally credible scenario that many other whites didnt vote for obama primarily because of his color.the deft editing and overall technical polish - as well as a generous travel budget - go a long way toward making the pic an attention-grabbe