Posted on 07/21/2014 5:24:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Back in 2010, and amid some of the worst economic times of Barack Obama’s failed presidency, I lunched with an entrepreneur whose signage business was booming both domestically and globally. I asked this person how he thrived despite all the political barriers to growth, and he said “I’m way too smart for Obama, and I’ll always work around him.”
The entrepreneur’s confident response came to mind as I watched Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, America: Imagine the World Without Her. D’Souza properly loves the U.S., as does this writer, but his documentaries (the other was 2016: Obama’s America, released to much fanfare in 2012) pander to the desire among some in the conservative movement to play hapless victim to the all-powerful Barack.
To believe D’Souza and others who are helping define this ascendant strain of victim conservatism, a man they deem aloof, unfocused and not terribly competent has somehow managed in six short years to transform a nation once defined by staggering individual initiative and entrepreneurial abundance into a land of indolent takers. Victimhood has a new red-state address, and Obama must be flattered to know that for being Barack, he’s sapped the vitality of the most productive people on earth. All of this would be scary if D’Souza’s documentary were at all grounded in reality.
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Denish = Dinesh
He wouldn't have had a chance fifty years ago. George McGovern was a WWII war hero and against an unpopular war, and he got stomped in 1972. Because forty years ago the American electorate knew a leftist when they saw one, and most adult Americans didn't like leftists. Now they see a leftist like Obama, and they elect him president.
We couldn't have a president like Obama if we did not have the institutionalized voter fraud that put him there.
One of those two statements is absolutely true, is it also possible that both are true?
She is talking economics in her critique and without mentioning that the movie is not about economics
Also, d’Souza provides expert arguments using logic and also reliable sources in interviews
The movie is good because it is intelligent regardless of the cheesy acting jobs. It’s good because it is is reasonable
It drives the libs crazy
The response is long articles with big words which say nothing
My movement makes an Obama everyday!
If you look at the author’s history I’d say he leans left towards being Democrat but with just a touch of the right to confuse the issue; probably intentionally:
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/authors/john_tamny/
On another note I didn’t know Kendall was a female name:
https://www.zola.com/registry/kendallandjohn
Wedding Registry for a Kendall Brodarick and John Tamny. Might explain much if Kendall is male...
The point is: despite being wrong on some past predictions, is D’Souza’s movie mostly an honest depiction of the current state of affairs, or is it wrong? I’m sixty-four years old. The country has taken a decidedly leftist turn in the last fifty years. This reflected in the election of the most leftist president ever. Tamny, for some strange reason, by the tone of his article seems to be not too concerned with this. Every patriotic American who believes in the principles that made this country great should be highly concerned.
The author is correct, there is no longer a two-Party system.
It seems that there are those who are highly concerned with the turn that the power shift in the country has gone, and those who are concerned that the patriotic americans are so concerned about this, and are pointing it out to eachother.
The author is part of the latter group.
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