Reddit reviews The Roots of Obama's Rage

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't a main premise of the movie that it is OK to judge someone's character based on the people in their lives and where they have drawn inspiration from at one point or another?

If you were to accept all of these judgments of Obama based on his relationship with the memory of his father, and the people that he has known throughout his life, wouldn't you also need to accept that Paul Ryan is a wealth-worshipping atheist who believes that selfishness is a virtue and that working towards one's own self-interest is the highest work one can do, as Ayn Rand espoused? He has certainly talked extensively in the past about how much of an influence she had on him.

IIRC, Ryan has since claimed that he has changed his views, and has moved away from the ideas of Ayn Rand, since they do not align with his Catholic values. To believe this, you must accept that people change.

This movie is based all around a book that Obama wrote 17 years ago. Sure, D'Souza uses Obama's own words to build his case, but doesn't it seem odd that he would completely leave out Obama's more recent book, The Audacity of Hope, written in 2006? Isn't it possible that this new book might shed some light on how the man's feelings and views have evolved over those 11 years?

I have known some bad people in my life. Does that make me a bad person? My brother, when going through adolescense, got mixed up with skinheads and neo-Nazis; yet, he is one of the most caring and tolerant people I know. That was simply a phase. People change.

It does not seem very fair to cherry-pick a man's past to build a narrative about him. Why not just ask the man himself? Or explore answers to these questions by discussing his more recent book. The tagline for the movie is "Love him or hate him, you don't know him", but it does not really seem like D'Souza has tried very hard to get to know him.

I do not personally know the President. But I also do not think that it is fair to judge someone entirely on who they have known throughout their life. Confucius suggested that we ought to only hang out with our betters, so that we can become better ourselves. I would suggest that it can be just as beneficial to spend time with people who are not our betters, since we can learn lessons from them as well, even if only in the form of negative examples.

Whatever Obama's father was like or who he has known in his life, I think the most important judgements of him should come from judging his actions, the policies he has tried to put in place, the things he has said most recently, as they reflect, either directly or indirectly through subtext, his current thoughts and ideals. I have not seen him enact or attempt to enact anything that is as radical and extreme as some make him out to be.

Judge the man on what he does, not on who he has known, that's all I'm suggesting.

Also, I wonder if more or less people would see this movie if it shared the title of the book that it was based on, "The Roots of Obama's Rage", with the awesome evil red Obama head on the cover, haha.

http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Obamas-Rage-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/1596986255

This may the pivitol attempt - the movie 'Obama's America: 2016' based on the best-seller 'The Roots of Obama's Rage'. Has anyone seen this, or comment or provide unbiased fact-checking on this?