Key points are presented so you don't have to waste 16 minutes, but if you have the time, check out this production.  Joseph Goebbels lives!
 

All this weeping and gnashing of teeth at the beginning of this propaganda exercise was created by the mortgage meltdown.

And who was the initiator of events that created the mortgage meltdown?

Barack Obama!

Then the film says he acted quickly with the Recovery Act.  We know this boondoggle as "the stimulus."  It poured $870,000,000 into the coffers of Obama's allies, and never met it's goal of reducing unemployment.  As a matter of fact, unemployment surged.

At 6:08 is the bogus "gramp's floating hand" image. LOL!

Then the film misrepresents the robbing of the auto company's equity holders and the payoff to the unions that resulted in Government Motors (GM) being owned by the federal government (33%) and the unions (39%).

Then it dramatizes Obama's shoving the unconstitutional ObamaCare down the throats of the American People.

Then, he brings the troops home from Iraq 9thank you George Bush and The Surge) and heroically, at great risk, gets Osama.  Hail Obama!  The Navy SEALs?  Who?

"It was the ultimate test of leadership," swoons Tom Hanks.

"He restored science to its rightful place."

"Reformed the student loan system," and redistributed the money from greedy Wall Street.

"He placed two experienced jurists on the Supreme Court" -- both ideologues -- both unqualified.

Business is now booming!  Hooray

Obama never did any of this for political gain (gag!)

"Let's remember how far we've come."

Just wow! 

And Tom Hanks?  Shame on you.  Do you really believe the stuff that's coming out of your mouth?

"Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt had so much fallen on the shoulders of one president."

Even The New York Times less than enthusiastic review says, "Obama’s new campaign documentary makes an argument that the country is on the upswing, even if it’s not quite yet roaring back."

Not quite roaring back?  I'll say.

Real unemployment is 15%.  Gas is $5 plus.  Food prices are soaring.

Hey, Tom!  Check this out!

Politicio's Mackenzie Weinger is reporting that Barack Obama blamed Fox News for his political woes in a private meeting with labor leaders in 2010, saying he was "losing white males" who tune into the cable outlet and "hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7," according to a new book, "Showdown," by journalist David Corn, Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief.
 

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Tom Hanks committed professional suicide when he made this Obama propaganda film.

A Google search of -- Obama blames -- returns 11,400,000 results.

Obama blames Fox News for "Muslim" rumors

Mackenzie Weinger is reporting that  Barack Obama blamed Fox News for his political woes in a private meeting with labor leaders in 2010, saying he was “losing white males” who tune into the cable outlet and “hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7,” according to journalist David Corn’s new book, “Showdown.”

In “Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party” -- which hits bookstores on Tuesday -- the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones chronicles the White House from the 2010 midterm elections to the start of the 2012 campaign. The book focuses on key moments of Obama’s presidency, such as Osama bin Laden’s assassination, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Arab Spring, the debt ceiling crisis, and Obama’s dealings with Congress.

Corn writes that after the midterm elections, Obama told labor leaders in December 2010 that he held Fox partly responsible for him “losing white males.”

"…Fed by Fox News, they hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7, and it begins to seep in…The Republicans have been at this for 40 years. They have new resources, but the strategy is old," Corn recounted Obama as saying.

During Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel last evening, Baier reported that his staff had researched the "Muslim" allegation.  He stated firmly that no Fox Newsperson has ever uttered the "Obama is a Muslim" meme.

Everyone should know by now that it was The New York Times that informed the world that Obama was a Muslim.  

Actually, The Times went even further, describing Obama as an Islamic apostate whose recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a cleric.

"As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood.  It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion.  Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant."

[snip]

"His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is 'irtidad' or 'ridda,' usually translated from the Arabic as 'apostasy,' but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive)."

"With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools prescribe execution for all adults who leave the faith not under duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and hangings."

So if Team Obama wants to point fingers, point 'em at The New York Times.

Evening in America?

Michael Barone says Barack Obama’s 17-minute video, "The Road We’ve Traveled," gives us an idea of how he wants to frame the issues in the fall election.

The first thing you notice about the video is that the atmosphere is dark, wintry, minor key. You see but don’t hear the election-night crowd in Grant Park, and then the video switches to graphics about the economic meltdown that followed the financial crisis of 2008.

There are gloomy scenes throughout. Obama’s economic advisers arrive in a bleak Chicago after a snowstorm. The president is shown sitting in the Oval Office through a window at night.

The visuals are oddly antique for a president who promised hope and change. When narrator Tom Hanks talks of the "middle class," we see downscale neighborhoods with houses built in the 1910s or 1920s. When he talks about economic recovery, we see an early 1950s Ford coming off the assembly line.

Hanks strikes another historical note. "Not since the days of Franklin Roosevelt has so much fallen on the shoulders of one president." Well, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan might disagree, but one gets the idea. If America is not standing tall, it’s because Obama started off nearly six feet under.

We hear a lot about the burdens of office and the loneliness of presidential decision-making. The same point was made in 30- and 60-second ads run by Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign in 1980.

Those spots featured only Carter and the narrator speaking. The 17-minute video has time for testimony from Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and, briefly, Michelle Obama.

The resemblance to the Carter ads is ominous, seeing as Carter lost 51–41 percent in November. Americans want to think well of their presidents, but sometimes they decide they’ve had enough.

Republicans and political reporters will find much to quibble with in "The Road We’ve Traveled." There are misstatements of facts, and issues are framed in ways that are arguably misleading. The Washington Post’s fact checker has given the video three of a possible four Pinocchios for the Obamas’ description of his mother’s insurance situation in her final illness.

On issues, we don’t hear the words "stimulus package"; there is just a brief reference to the otherwise unidentified Recovery Act. Much more is made of the GM and Chrysler bailouts, which Biden says -- some Pinocchios due here -- exacted sacrifices from the United Auto Workers.

There is also much more -- more than there was in January’s State of the Union -- on health care. We hear a list of promised benefits -- keeping adult children on parents’ insurance, banning refusals to insure for pre-existing conditions -- which so far have failed to make most Americans love the law.

We hear little about foreign policy except for the withdrawal from Iraq, with some attractive footage of soldiers returning home and praise from Clinton and Biden for ordering the SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden.

There are the predictable shout-outs (liberals call them dog whistles) to Democratic constituency groups -- feminists, gay-rights supporters, seculars, fans of green energy.

Altogether, this seems more like an attempt to shore up the Democratic base than it does an attempt to win over independents, who, polls indicate, are skeptical about many claims made in the video. Its main message is what I heard from Democratic voters I encountered on the primary trail: Things were really bad when he got in, and he needs another term to straighten them out.

For a contrast, look at the 1984 Reagan campaign’s "Morning in America" ad. The narrator, ad man Hal Riney, has a soothing voice like Hanks’s, but his message is vastly more upbeat. America is "prouder and stronger and better," he proclaims, because of the policies of President Reagan.

You see more flags than you do in the Obama video, more smiles, and couples at the altar. It looks like springtime and is filled with light.

"Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?" Riney asks. Which surely reminded viewers of the question Ronald Reagan posed in his only debate with Jimmy Carter: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Reagan stole the line from the master, Franklin Roosevelt, who, in a fireside chat before the 1934 off-year elections, asked, "Are you better off than you were last year?" But that was 46 years earlier, and no one remembered.

It’s a question that the Obama campaign dares not ask.

Your name in the credits...

By Ann Marie Habershaw on March 26, 2012

You deserve some recognition. And we can't carve your name into the wall of this thing that we’re building -- it’s bigger than that.

Here’s what we want to do:

Make a donation of $3 or more before March 31st, and we’ll put your name in the credits of Davis Guggenheim’s documentary, “The Road We’ve Traveled.”

This film is being used at field offices across the country to fire people up -- because we know it’s one of the best tools we have. But grassroots supporters like you are the ones making sure our field offices have the resources they need to get the film out there.

That’s why if you help make that happen, you get the credit -- literally.

There’s a huge fundraising deadline on March 31st. So make your donation before this Saturday.

The road we really traveled

Andrew Klavan and Bill Whittle skewer and parody Barack Obama's "Road We Traveled" campaign video. Sponsored by Free Enterprise Alliance's Halt The Assault project.