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2016: Obama’s America or,
the legacy media’s disinterest in Obama’s intellectual upbringing

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Up in the Santa Barbara area to hobnob with friends from my grad program in myth (and attend a myth conference).  This afternoon, we took a break to see the hit movie 2016: Obama’s America. Not sure I buy the thesis, but was impressed at the size of the crowd. It looked like over 150 people there for a 1 PM matinee on a Friday. And take a gander at the marquee at the theater where we caught the flick:

Seems an equal opportunity theater, going from showing a movie quite critical of Obama to hosting Obama apologists.

The flick did do one thing which all too many in our legacy media have failed to do, inquire into Obama’a intellectual background, finding the individuals who and considering the ideas which influenced the future president.

Folks in the media keep suggesting that we really don’t know much about Mitt Romney, but, well, we know a lot less about the incumbent President of the United States than we do about the man vying to replace him.  And we knew even less about Barack Obama in 2008 when he, like Mr. Romney this week, was first nominated by a major political party for the highest office in the land.

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  1. we knew even less about Barack Obama in 2008 when he, like Mr. Romney this week, was first nominated by a major political party for the highest office in the land.

    Along those lines: it may be fun to point out again that Sarah Palin was, in 2008, MORE QUALIFIED THAN OBAMA AND BIDEN combined, to be President. Whatever you think of her – however thin her resume was – she had infinitely** more real-life executive experience than Obama and Biden.

    (**Obama and Biden had zero executive experience. Mathematicians know that when you try to compare a positive quantity to a zero, in a ratio, the ratio’s value is infinity.)