 Tom Hanks - photographed here in the White House movie theater with President Obama before a screening of the HBO miniseries "The Pacific" on March 11, 2010 - narrates a new 17-minute documentary on Obama's first term in office. The film will be released by the Obama campaign on March 15. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
March 8th, 2012
08:09 AM ET
Obama Campaign Releasing Movie Trailer Team Obama is releasing a movie trailer Thursday, followed by a debut of a 17-minute campaign film next week. The film, "The Road We've Traveled," comes out on March 15 and will chronicle the president's first term in office, campaign officials said. But the trailer - just like with real movies - comes out Thursday . The trailer is narrated by Tom Hanks, who asks, "How do we understand this president and his time in office? Do we look at the day's headlines, or do we remember what we as a country have been through?" In interviews, senior strategist David Axelrod, former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Vice President Joe Biden and others recall the behind-the-scenes discussions about the economic crisis, health care reform, the auto industry bailout and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. "His advisers would ask: Where to begin? Which urgent need would he put first?" Hanks asks. Breaking up the interviews are now-iconic images of the president accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver and speaking in Chicago's Grant Park on election night. It also includes close-ups of Obama and his White House team in what appear to be exceptionally tense meetings. If the message isn't clear, the graphics spell it out: "This is a film about determination and progress." Campaign manager Jim Messina says the film is about the president's first-term accomplishments. Like other campaign films, it's clearly intended to build a campaign narrative. Based on the trailer, it seems that narrative is, at least in part, about a president who managed unexpected crises with resolve and a steady hand. Campaign officials said they'll show the movie at house parties and events across the country. The film is by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim, who also made the president's 2008 campaign documentaries. Check out the trailer here. UPDATE: Republican National Committee spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski had this to say about the Obama campaign's new video: “The American people don't need a movie trailer or a 17 minute documentary to know what the president accomplished over the past three years. Unfortunately Americans feel Obama’s accomplishments each and every day after President Obama led our country to higher unemployment, record debt, and higher gas prices. The question is what does another Obama term mean for America? From the promise of fewer jobs, tax increases, more debt, and the implementation of Obamacare, we literally cannot afford another four years of President Obama.” |
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Definitely will be under the category "Comedy"
ONCE AGAIN, OBAMA RELIES ON PUBLIC RELATIONS,
SINCE HE HAS A DISMAL RECORD TO RUN ON ...
Here’s what 0bama has done
Operation Fast & Furious
Obamacare
$5 TRILLION in DEBT first term of 0bama
Failures of Solyndra, NextEra, Light Squared, Ener1 and numerous others
Failure to enforce Federal immigration laws
Failure to approve Trans-Canada Keystone Pipeline
Failure to accept reforms from Simpson-Bowels (his own commission)
15.9% U-6 Real Unemployment
Skirting Congress with unelected ‘czars’ to protect his donors
America’s Credit Downgrade causes OUR investments to tank
30% loss in value of OUR homes
20 years of Rev. Wright’s racism
Bailing out GM & Chrysler unions’ pensions with OUR taxes
Highest Food Stamp usage in history
Out-of-control NLRB giving unions more power so their donations grow
Suing AZ., and Al. and SC. and Boeing.
$800B for ‘shovel-ready’ Stimulus jobs that produced NO JOBS
Dept. of Energy under contempt of court and over 100 investigations
No Energy Policy…Oil, Natural Gas & Coal production anemic
No Foreign Policy other than alienate and isolate our allies (Israel)
Apologizing to Muslims and enemies of the USA
Acorn / Union cronyism paybacks with OUR Taxes
1200 0bamaCare waivers to Democrat donators
Taking No responsibility while Blaming everything else
AND 0BAMA CAMPAIGNS AND FUND RAISES…BETWEEN VACATIONS
I'll tell you what's sickening Howard, is that you're benefitting from all of those things on the list!!! So quit your yapping.
Wimpy – you never seem to bring anything to the conversation. What on the list do you think is not true/spun? It may be nice to have a dialog with you if we only knew what you stood for.
Howard,
Blah, Blah, Blah!!! Sounds like Rush Limbaugh has a diciple, lol!!! If you don't like the president, don't vote for him. HE WILL STILL BEAT ROMNEY WITHOUT YOUR REPUBLICAN VOTE!!! He doesn't expect Republicans to like what he does. He is only after Democrats and half of the Independents. Since there are 77 Million registered Democrats and 55 million registered Republicans in America, he doesn't need ANY REPUBLICANS!! Or did you fail basic math!!! See you in November! 🙂
Wow....you should have started with the US being on the brink of failing as Bush walked out. Just like it takes time to fix your own finances....it takes time to fix the US problems....and if the GOP's goal had been to help instead of obstructing, we might have gotten something done....!!! Your tirade tells me that you listen to Limbaugh and watch Fox...what a loser!
@Howard. I appreciate the list, but I'm not sure if I should critic this list. I would caution you though to realize the United States is a democracy and not a dictatorship, there are balance of powers, and issues like the economy, debt, entitlements can't be resolved unless all three branches of govt. are willing to work with each other. In a age where compromise is a bad word to some members of govt, how can you expect any major issues solved. For example, you can't solve the debt in this country, when 50% of our debt is due to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, particularly from the Baby Boomer Generation. Democrat, Independent, Tea Party, or Republican can argue all they want about protecting these programs, but at the end of the day, if you want to cut the debt, you have to cut these programs. Or raise taxes to pay for these programs, in order to maintain the debt at a constant level. I would suggest that you look at the voting track record of your elected official, and see what there compromising record looks like, on your own, and unfiltered from your favorite media outlet.
Here’s what 0bama has done
Operation Fast & Furious – This program was in response to the drug wars on the Mexico border. Coordinated by the FBI and the Attorney General to crack down on illegal arms and drugs. This concept is nothing new we always hear about the bad deals, but never the good deals.
Obamacare – Protects American Tax Payers from the 50Million uninsured Americans from being a burden on insured Americans when they go to emergency rooms. Protects 700,000 people who go bankrupt every year due to being kick off of insurance. Increases preventative care programs to help solve the Medicare cost in the long term due to obesity, arthritis, cholesterol. etc.
$5 TRILLION in DEBT first term of 0bama – 50% of the annual budget goes toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. When you are brave enough to raise taxes for these programs or cut these programs significantly then we can have conversation. Until then Obama is trying to pay for these programs through reform and increased taxes on the high income earners.
Failures of Solyndra, NextEra, Light Squared, Ener1 and numerous others – Reaffirms this President's commitment to alternative energy and energy independence, "So we can no longer bow to a Saudi King" – Newt Gingrich. A lot of products today came from GSEs Nintendo Wii, GPS, Fuel Cells, etc.
Failure to enforce Federal immigration laws – Define failure? Net this President has exported more illegal immigrants.
Failure to approve Trans-Canada Keystone Pipeline – Define failure? Southern leg (Oklahoma – Texas) of this pipeline is being built today. The Northern part is being negotiated by the State Dept to find an alternative way that doesn't go through Nebraska, since the Republican Governor of that State didn't want to risk the Mid West water reserves.
Failure to accept reforms from Simpson-Bowels (his own commission) – Obama did try to execute this program. Remember the $5T deal he made with Boehner, and McConnell to cut the deficit by $5Trillion in return for modest tax increases. The deal fell apart in the House due to the Tea Party.
15.9% U-6 Real Unemployment – You can't change the Unemployment metric at your own convenience. What was the U-6 for the past 10 years?
Skirting Congress with unelected ‘czars’ to protect his donors – There are still 200 routine appointments that are still waiting to be approved by the Senate. 'Czar' didn't become a bad word until Obama became elected. What is there role? For example, the Consumer Protection Bureau aka Dodd Frank, protects consumers from fraud and abuse.
America’s Credit Downgrade causes OUR investments to tank – Congress controls the budget. The debate has been about fair share contribution to the debt. $1 Tax increases for $3 spending cuts. Its hard to do, when most Republicans in Congress signed a pledge to never raise taxes. Its funny, how even though there was a downgrade, there was still increase in purchase in US Treasury Bonds.
30% loss in value of OUR homes – This was due to the housing bubble collapse, Lehman Brothers going down, Credit crunch, 8 million jobs lost from 2008-2009, toxic mortgage based securities.
20 years of Rev. Wright’s racism – Listen to his entire speech, not the edited version. Do some research on institutional racism, Alabama and Arizona's immigration laws, Voter Rights suppression and the more than 200 years of racism, fear, and stereotypes that still exist in this country.
Bailing out GM & Chrysler unions’ pensions with OUR taxes – It was a loan. It saved 1.1 Million Jobs. Unions and Salary both made sacrifices during the restructuring. GM and Chrysler both had to submit a plan to Congress on how they would restructure to be competitive. In the past two years billion dollar profits.
Highest Food Stamp usage in history – 8 million jobs were lost (half of those during the Bush Administration), to date 3.7M jobs have been recovered. Poverty has been a problem in our country for the past 30 years. Go look at the studies from the OECD.
Your one sided list is just to long, and I don't know why I even bothered.
Comedy? really? 2008 – the country losing 700 thousand jobs a month? was you one of them, or you are one of those banker, survived on taxpayers' dime? The Iraq war! The Afgh war! ... and the tax break for top 1%.... SHAME ON YOU
I'm already laughing!
@Obama One & Done...LOL!! Laugh now because you will be sobbing in November! We'll see who has the last laugh!! I'm laughing now just thinking about how hard I'll be laughing at you and Howard in November! LOL!
By the way Obama One & Done huh?? He's going to be at best, Obama Two & Through!! Obama/Biden 2012...Yes We Will Again!!
I thought that "Blackhawks Down" illustrated the President's experience?! At least those of angry, Islamic Africans who hate non Muslim Africans and American soldiers! Tom Hanks would have made great movies in Germany, circa 1936 celebrating that Socialist, forward thinking State. Shame.
Harlem Nights 2?
The Godfather – Obama style
ASK YOUR MOTHER, WHAT STYLE YOU HAVE, RUSH RIMBALL. NO BRAINER
Nah, Birth of a Nation 2! Obama 2012
Dumb and Dumber 3 (obama/biden 2012)
Propaganda from known liars.
Wow I previously posted a positive comment on how it seamed like a good video and my post got rejected. But only two insults and a racist comment got green lit. shamefull
What he did? Debt, solyndra, 12.5mil people looking for job, 48mil food spamp and naive inter. policy. Between 1 to 10 his grade is minus 1.
Interesting. It reminds me of a Kindle book I read by John Childs called Big Hopes, how to decide in the 2012 election.
Of course he is. The Campaigner in Cheif is gearing up for more lies and deception. He has done NOTHING useful for this country. NOTHING. We have millions of people out of work. Yes, the unemployment rate has gone down, but he's conviently ignored the number of people who have just given up looking for work because it isn't there. He's kowtowing to forgien countries. He's attacking freedom of religion; freedom of speech – unelss of course it is the Liberal way of thinking, then it's rightspeek and rightthought.
Obama didn't inherit the problems in this country, he begged, lied, borrowed and stole to get them. He spent millions and millions to get those problems – he can't blame them on anyone else now. He wanted them and he got them. And he's done NOTHING to fix the underlying problems in America – just pandered to his leftie base.
Hey, Teapuppet. We ain't going back to the Bush economic nightmare. GOP created devastation that's going to take government, private sector, and workers years to fix. My only regret is irrational puppets like you will benefit from the efforts of reasonable people.
Lay off the kool-aid and find a job.
You are correct – we are going forward off the cliff under BO and half of America loves him because they live totally off the 49% who actually work.
But Democraps had controll of congress since 2006....who's mess is this again??
This president is a joke
IF HE IS A JOKE, YOU MUST BE A SNOB
To me he is not president, but naive, unqualified man, who got electable because he was historical person.
you're right....he's an imposter. Definately not an American. Indonesian maybe.
He can bring Tom Hanks or Silvester Stalone, no one can help him... He failed for 4 years to bring the change he promised. He ruined America and far more, he is behind all the mess in the middle east. Please save us, pack and go home.
Mess in the middle east? You gotta be joking. Please tell me you didn't support GWB re-election, at least.
OBL ? Gone, btw, thank you PO.
Obama is behind ALL the mess in the Middle East? That's just...not remotely true. The world didn't begin in 2008.
why hating? U have a president who came into office, inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression, put the downfall into a halt, the economy is now rebounding back, saved the auto industry, passes health care that will benefit all and sundry, no more games, children can stay on their parents plan until they turn 26 esp in the face of this joblessness, where is Osama Bin Laden, Where is Ghadafi, held wall street accountable, when BP spilled the gulf, he stood with Americans while the GOP apologized to the oil Czars, just name it, so please stop hating, if you are still sad that a black man is occupying the white house, go dig ur grave and fall into it. Obama/Biden 20112
why hating? U have a president who came into office, inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression, put the downfall into a halt, the economy is now rebounding back, saved the auto industry, passes health care that will benefit all and sundry, no more games, children can stay on their parents plan until they turn 26 esp in the face of this joblessness, where is Osama Bin Laden, Where is Ghadafi, held wall street accountable, when BP spilled the gulf, he stood with Americans while the GOP apologized to the oil Czars, just name it, so please stop hating, if you are still sad that a black man is occupying the white house, go dig ur grave and fall into it. Obama/Biden 2012
Sarah – do us a favor and list what you think is true and what you made up (in your comments).
Our president-elect is purpo9rted to be the bhstrgeit man on the planet, yet he is continually revealed as a man who has absolutely no idea what those around him are doing. Twenty years attending a race-baiting pastor's church and he never knew anything about the Rev, Wright. Regular coffee klatches with a Weatherman terrorist and he never knew anything about Bill Ayers. Years of fiscal and personal relations with a convicted crook and he knew nothing about Antoin Rezko. I could go on. Honest to God I hope Obama is successful, but how much longer will this continue?Tarheel Hawkeye
He failed for 4 years to bring the change he promised. He ruined America and far more, he is behind all the mess in the middle east. It is very wise to give someone else a chance.
Obama is one powerful mo-fo to have ruined America all alone. (By the way, America is struggling, but hardly ruined.)
Propaganda. Maybe they'll pump it in to our homes and make it required viewing like they do in North Korea.
i can not wait to view the entire video...an educated black man as president of the United States and some of you can not handle it. it makes me smile :).
Where did they find an educated blackman??
Really? That question is just hateful. Yes, let's all hate blacks. That will make America strong.
It is not a black thing,instead it is qualified power,,,,& Hussein has to learn how,,, the fair & right way,not the Crooked way.
Who said anything about black or white????? Please keep this out of the discussion. Hope for the best for America.
Well, it beats Sarah and 4 Dorks!!
They should name it "one flew over the coo-coo's nest 2"...
Repbulicans created the mess we were in and still feel today! Obama had to clean up their crap. You can have your own opinions, but you can't have your own facts.
Sure you can. Many here do.
Gallup reports unemployment at 9.1%. I wonder how Obama's BOLS will massage those numbers?
Gallups results will not be reflected in the "offical" numbers from the Labor Department.., guaranteed!
Per CNNs own report this morning on job numbers..., "the unemployment rate is expected to remain unchanged at 8.3%".
but 1st time filers "unexpectedly went up"... It seems everything surprises this administration.
Why does the media always report the rate using the U3 numbers? The U6 numbers are far more accurate, but they never seem to get mentioned.
So Obama was an angry young radical black man. And this is news to who??
And do not for get,when a crook still acts like one & say crooked things,do what the crooks do,,,we got to admit, he's still a crook .
Based on the trailer, it seems that narrative is, at least in part, about a president who managed UNEXPECTED crises with RESOLVE and a STEADY hand!!??
Clearly a narrative only Woody can deliver..
According to CNN, hot off the wire..., The new job package "is en route to becoming one of the few pieces of legislation aimed at boosting job creation and the economy to be signed into law in the past few years".
But don't expect to hear that from Woody.
Looks like a perfect candidate for the 2012 Razzies. I suggest a new title – "Bring In the Clowns". The 'Road We've Traveled' is full of potholes. I expect that the opening line will be Obama's famous lie, "As I told you many times before" to cover up the glaring fact that he did nothing of the sort. Do any of the Obama-appointed czars make an appearance. Funny. We haven't heard anything about them lately. Were they 'liquidated?'
Almost everyone runs as an oiedustr even when they aren't. Look at John McCain who has been running as an oiedustr for his decades in the Senate. Hilary Clinton's the only one who hasn't and look how that fared her. (Well, John Kerry too but that makes my point)For better or worse Americans like to vote for a guy they think they'd like to hang out with and who isn't an Washington elite (whether they are or not). I'm really surprised at some of the decisions the Clintons have made the last six months. I really thought she had it wrapped up but she was too arrogant and thought a shock and awe campaign to win the early elections would work.On other hand it was nice to see many Democrats finally seeing Bill Clinton for whom he has always been.
Can not wait looks great and will keep sending it to all my republican friends daily
I don't know how they'll be able to fill up 17 minutes worth, but I guess they could have long dramatic pauses...
16a13b35f7You can certainly see your tepxreise in the work you write. The world hopes for even more passionate writers like you who aren't afraid to say how they believe. At all times go after your heart. 187
I just want to see his birth certificate so I can start to trust him.