Like everything Obama, the movie is a fantasy.
It attempts to project a man who inherited the worst recession in world history, who saved one industry after another, who turned around world opinion about the US and who took the nation to another level of happiness.
Let me repeat. It is a fantasy, unless you are still one of those drunk on "hope and change" and the "yes we can" serenade.
Pres BO's record is obviously different. In fact, the record is so different that they had to make a movie like this to distract voters.
The documentary does not talk about the very high unemployment rate in all of those black congressional districts run by black Democrats. It does not mention the high unemployment rate in Hispanic communities either.
The documentary does not say that Pres BO had 60 votes in the US Senate (the super majority) or a 40-plus advantage in the US House. In other words, the Dems had total control of the federal government for the first two years of Pres BO.
The documentary avoids the reality of immigration reform promises made in 2008. In fact, it overlooks most of the 2008 promises, specially closing GITMO or reversing the anti-terror policies started by Pres Bush.
We agree with Rove's review that the movie has lots of "straw men" and people to blame.
The movie avoids a lot of the real history:
"Almost as important as what the film says is what it doesn't.
There's not a word about the failure of the president's stimulus to produce the jobs he pledged—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer Americans are working today (132.7 million) than when Mr. Obama was sworn in (133.6 million).
There's nothing about his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term—according to Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt, the administration has piled up more debt in three years and two months ($4.93 trillion) than his predecessor did in eight years ($4.8 trillion).
Nothing is said about the centerpieces of last year's State of the Union—green energy jobs (Solyndra anyone?) and high-speed rail (fizzled).
Nada on the president's promises about how ObamaCare would lower premiums and lower the deficit while allowing people to keep their existing coverage (all untrue).
There's nothing about the crumbling situation in Afghanistan, strained relations with allies like Israel, Mr. Obama's unpopularity in the Islamic World, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, multiple missteps with Iran (from failing to protest the stolen Iranian elections in 2009 to the mullahs' unchecked pursuit of nuclear weapons), and Mr. Obama's flip flops on closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and providing civilian trials for terrorists. "
Yes, the movie reminds us every 5 seconds that that Pres BO killed Bin Laden. It is presented in "Batman" like terms! It is portrayed as the most heroic decision every taken by a US president.
Yes, I'm very happy that a Navy Seal put a bullet between Bin Laden's eyes. Go Navy Seals and congratulations to Pres BO for authorizing the raid.
However, do you think that Pres McCain would have let Bin Laden live after we learned that he was living in Pakistan. (The movie avoids conveniently another reality: We learned of Bin Laden's whereabouts from information obtained in GITMO.....no word of that in the movie)
Overall, Pres BO's first term is all about the unwillingness to make decisions and blame other people. It was also a profile in cowardice. He did not force his Congressional majority to vote on immigration, homosexuals serving openly in the military or The Dream Act.
It is a striking contrast to Pres Bush, who made decisions and did not blame Pres Clinton for doing nothing about terrorism or leaving him a recession. (Don't forget that the stock market crashed in the last year of Pres Clinton)
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