This month, Barack Obama's re-election campaign released a 17-minute film, "The Road We've Traveled," that previews the Democratic general election narrative. Directed by Academy Award winner Davis Guggenheim and narrated by actor Tom Hanks, the film explores Mr. Obama's most important decisions.

Viewers are told Mr. Obama deserves re-election for restoring America to prosperity after a recession "as deep as anything . . . since the Great Depression." He accomplished this in part, so the film says, by bailing out the auto companies—deciding not to just "give the car companies" or "the UAW the money" but to force them to "work together" and "modernize the automobile industry." The president, we're told, also confronted "one of the most worrisome problems facing America . . . the cost of health care."

Abroad, Mr. Obama ended the Iraq war and, in the "ultimate test of leadership," Osama bin Laden was killed on his watch. The film heralds Mr. Obama as a leader committed to "tough decisions" and as someone who "would not dwell in blame" in the Oval Office.

Where to begin? Perhaps with the last statement: Mr. Obama has spent three years wallowing in blame. His culprits have ranged from his predecessor, to tsunamis and earthquakes, to ATMs, to Fox News, to yours truly. If you Google "Obama, Blame, Bush" and "Obama, Inherited," you'll get tens of millions of hits.

As for inheriting the worst economy since the Great Depression: Perhaps Mr. Obama has forgotten the Carter presidency, which featured double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, and high unemployment.

The film is riddled with other inaccuracies and misleading claims. For example, the United Auto Workers may not have gotten "money" in the bailout, but as an unsecured creditor, the union received a 17.5% ownership interest in General Motors and 55% of Chrysler, while the companies' bondholders got hosed.

The film asserts that the auto companies "repaid their loans." But they still owe taxpayers $26.5 billion, and the Treasury Department's latest report to Congress noted that nearly $24 billion of the bailout money is gone forever.

The film includes Mr. Obama's 2008 claim that the death of his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, from cancer "could have been prevented" if only she "had good, consistent insurance." But earlier this year, a biography of Dunham by Janny Scott, "A Singular Woman," revealed that she had health insurance that covered most all her medical bills, leaving only a few hundred dollars a month in deductibles and uncovered costs. For misleading viewers, the Washington Post fact checker awarded this segment of the film "Three Pinocchios."

The film also offers up numerous straw men. For example, opponents of Mr. Obama's auto industry bailout, we're told, just wanted to "let it go," as if an orderly bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler in the courts rather than by presidential fiat was never an option. It was.

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.

As for the killing of Osama bin Laden, Mr. Obama did what virtually any commander in chief would have done in the same situation. Even President Bill Clinton says in the film "that's the call I would have made." For this to be portrayed as the epic achievement of the first term tells you how bare the White House cupboards are.

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I am just glad the thread isnt titled " the road we traveled with Mcain/Palin.

We agree on NOTHING Lp.....usually.... but as far as our not so glorious present dictator wannabe king, we do.

The replacement for this usurper we have problems agreeing on.

You want more of the same with a different face, I want change, a future, peace, prosperity, liberty and freedom.

RON PAUL 2012!

Ron Paul FTW 2012 \,,/

It was a better journey with Obama at the helm.

If Senator McCain and Governor Palin had won we wouldn't be in the messes we are in now and all the rookie moves this Campaigner in Chief has made wouldn't happen.

That we have an inexperienced ammature in the White House who has to much of an ego to listen and take the advice of his top aides and Generals.

That's why MOST in the military leadership hate him.

If our enemies were to infiltrate our Government in order to destroy America, they would do exactly what Obama is doing. Obama is a conniving liar and a traitor. His blocking oil drilling in Anwar and the gulf, and stopping the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada forces us to buy oil from terrorist countries. When he took office gas was $1.85 a gallon. It's double that now.
His $Trillion dollar stimulus package went to pad the pockets of supporters. He blatantly gave stimulus to "green " companies with the stipulation they donate to his 2012 election. That's how he figured he'd raise a billion dollars for his campaign.
His recent Executive Orders give him the power to kill American citizens without trial if he believes them to be terrorist - (or anti-Obama?). He now has the authority in even minor emergencies to take control of all our nations resources, manufacturing and transportation.
None of the major news outlets will even question him or say anything negative about Obama. They barely mentioned that 2 million people marched on Washington 2 years ago in protest to his 3,000 page Obama care bill in which he openly bribed Senators and Congressmen to pass it. This bill gives the Government control over every American rationing health care, forcing everyone to buy Government health insurance and will dictate where doctors can practice.
Arizona Sheriff Joe R. Pyle's assistants proved Obama's birth certificate to be a fake. Even if it was real and he was born in Hawaii his step-dad made him a citizen of Indonesia when he was a child, therefore he is NOT an American citizen. By the way while growing up in Indonesia he attended a private Muslim school.
Soon after taking office Obama ignored the cries of millions of Iranian protesters protesting the corrupted election results and putting a Muslim nut to head their country. A nut who intends to nuke Isreal of the map and nuke the United States. In the Arab spring of 2010 Egypt and Libya fell to the Muslim brotherhood. Radical jiadist Muslim extremists are the biggest threat to the United States and the rest of the civilized world. It is the jiadist Muslims goal to make Islam the religion of the world by any means - overthrowing Governments to killing non-muslims one at a time. This is a society where women have absolutely no rights and are actually bought and sold. I can see how they entice ugly young men into their sect where they have the option of buying a woman as opposed to our western society where they may think they're too ugly to entice a woman.
Our strong defense is in our United States Constitution and conservatism and we must get Obama out of office this year. We also need to stop Obama care and pass the Ryan budget to put our economy on track. If Obama were to win he will try to take total tyrantical control of America, but we have the ace up our sleeve. That document signed July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence states that Americahave a "duty" to throw of our Government if it strays from "of the people, for the people, by the peoole" form of Government and institute new guards for their future.
I plead with my fellow Americans to listen to conservative talk shows on radio and TV. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanidy, Mark Lavine and Roger Hedgecock where you'll learn what ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN won't tell you. Call your Congressman and Senators, stand up for America and freedom!

Obama: "We can't cut our way to prosperity, but we sure can spend our way to oblivion

He loves to spend other people's money.

Creed of the Politician!

Yep,because they wouldn't have given a fifth of GM,and over half of Chrysler away to Labor!
And cheated all the people who had put their hardearned money into that Stock,then were ripped off by BIG Labor and Obama and his Merrimen!

To Hell and Back

I think we tried it the "republican" way with Bush and Cheneye and ended up in two bankrupting america loseing wars of choice. I seriously doubt america will go that way again any time soon.


We are still trying to recover from that disaster and these republican rubes blame Obama for the mess he is trying to clean up.


Four more years! NO way can romney win or the other guy.

RP might have had a chance but they blew that one.

Obama has spent more in less then three years then President Bush spent over 8 years including two wars.

Creed of the Democrat. If you pull their financials look how much they donated to charity, I think before Biden got the nomination it was like $300.00 a year but then they hose the taxpayers and tell us to fund these things with our money.