Admittedly, I had never heard of the Obama’s America, 2016 movie until yesterday when someone searched for it and ended up here on POLITUSIC. Of course, like learning a new word, once I was made aware of it I started seeing references… and even a commercial on MSNBC, no less.
What’s striking, however, is the amazing amount of irony in the face of the 2012 presidential election. Take the title of this so called “movie”:
“Obama’s America: 2016. Love Him. Hate Him. You Don’t Even Know Him” Is that about Obama or Mitt Romney?
This movie is basically a long-format political commercial to help Mitt Romney and the Republican Party win the 2012 election. It was funded by a small group of very wealthy conservative businessmen… that’s all a superPAC is, but since it’s a movie and not a commercial or robo call they don’t have to file as a SuperPAC.
Mitt Romney’s America: 2016. Love Him. Hate Him. You Don’t Even Know Him.
THAT is actually a scarier movie title than the original put forth by a man who got his start in politics in the Reagan administration and now calls himself an author and movie maker. That’s a movie I would like to see get made. America knows much, much less about Mitt Romney than it does about Barack Obama.
“You Don’t Even Know Him” is far more true about the republican nominee for President, Mitt Romney. He has made it that way. When anyone goes back to look at his career, his stance on issues vacillates… on nearly every single issue that has ever confronted an elected public servant. Once he claimed to be to the left of Kennedy! Now he says he’s “Severely Conservative.” At this point it’s as though he deliberately tries to confuse everyone so that no one knows for what he actually stands. He stays miles away from his own religion, even.
Mitt Romney: Love Him. Hate Him. You Don’t Even Know Him.” No truer a statement has ever been made. This movie about President Obama, while trying to scare Americans about him has inadvertently stumbled upon a deep truth about Mitt Romney: we have no frigging clue who he is, what he stands for, or what he believes (other than that paying 13% on taxes is somehow a GOOD thing, while the rest of us pay double that).
This movie about Obama is trying to instill (once again) a feeling of distrust about the President… without realizing that it ends up begging the question about the Republican challenger: do YOU trust Mitt Romney? Do you believe what he says? Does HE believe what he says? What would American look like in 2016 if Mitt Romney won the presidential election?
Mitt Romney: You don’t even know him. NO ONE knows him.
