'The Road We've Traveled': Trailer For New Documentary Highlights President Obama's First-Term Accomplishments

The Obama campaign, in its push to remind voters why they cast their ballots in 2008, is releasing a documentary that plays up the president's accomplishments.

The two-minute trailer is for the documentary, "The Road We've Traveled," which takes a look back on President Obama's first term, from the collapse on Wall Street to the fight over health care. "Road," which is narrated by Tom Hanks and directed by Davis Guggenheim, who helmed the Oscar winning environmentalist documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. "Road" will be shown at Obama campaign events next week.

The trailer includes interviews with Vice President Joe Biden, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as the president's chief of staff.

Republicans, unsurprisingly, are giving the new film bad reviews. "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," said Kirsten Kukowski, an RNC spokesperson, told USA Today.

Some new polling has shown that Obama's coalition from 2008 is coming together again. "Whether the electorate is viewed by race, gender, partisanship or ideology (or combinations of the above), Obama's numbers against Romney now closely align with his support against McCain, according to the 2008 exit polls," Ronald Brownstein wrote in The Atlantic. "On the broadest measure, Pew found Obama attracting 44 percent of whites (compared to 43 percent in 2008) and 79 percent of non-whites (compared to 80 percent in 2008). In the Pew survey, Obama attracted 49 percent of whites with at least a four year college degree (compared to 47 percent against McCain) and 41 percent of whites without one (compared to 40 percent in 2008)."

Comments

[OLJW00]

09:03 PM on 03/20/2012

It's a shame the ADMIN felt it necessary to promote a lie...the one about Obama's mother being denied insurance.

In the biography of Anne Dunham, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, it turned out that her correspondence showed that “the 1995 dispute concerned a Cigna disability insurance policy and that her actual health insurer had apparently reimbursed most of her medical expenses without argument.”

Note it was about DISABILITY insurance and not health insurance...AND that most of those expenses were rectified.

OUCH! But hey, why NOT double down on this stinker......because the truth just gets in the way of an otherwise good story. The only question is that why, after this story being exposes as an untruth, would they CONTINUE to use it?

Hmmmm......

[Jujubmuse]

04:44 PM on 03/16/2012

The Road We Are Traveling

Stuart Chase, a principle author of the New Deal, outlined the following steps to pushing the progressive agenda. (Outlined in his book "The Road We Are Traveling")

Strong, centralized government
Powerful Executive at the expense of Congress and the Judicial
Government controlled banking, credit and securities exchange
Government control over employment
Unemployment insurance, old age pensions
Universal medical care, food and housing programs
Access to unlimited government borrowing
A managed monetary system
Government control over foreign trade
Government control over natural energy sources, transportation and agricultural production
Government regulation of labor
Youth camps devoted to health discipline, community service and ideological teaching consistent with those of the authorities
Heavy progressive taxation.

Sound Familiar?

[GardenVariety]

09:41 AM on 03/16/2012

I look at this video and think about the big ole pass Obama gets. Now he is inheriting the problems from the president before him, himself. If Bush had done any of the things this man has done there would be no video made by Tom Hanks or anyone else in Hollywood to promote his reelecton bid. I believe this president wants more control for Washington over the American people. He is no different than most of the people in Washington, in bed with and sell outs to big,big business and big banks. Why does the federal government think it needs to take care of people. I want none of it. Leave me out. Maybe we need to read the book, "The Road We Are Traveling." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Chase

[shilo1]

05:27 AM on 03/16/2012

This probably won't be posted but I blame both parties for this mess. They both are in bed with Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Business; et all. The ONLY difference is that the Democrats use Spin, Smoke and Mirrors to hide their dirt. They both blame the other party; play the blame game but Check out the FACTS that the economic meltdown started with Jimmy Carter, the CRA, ACORN; etc and yes Obama, the community organizer by giving money to those who can not handle it; no matter WHO! Every President continued this MESS of SPENDING. I do not support any TARP or BAIL OUTS at all for anyone. Like Margaret Thatcher said: "The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of Other Peoples Money" (O.P.M. aka OPIUM) AND WE the PEOPLE aka the USA are so out of money. Just look at Greece; etc and the case study of the old U.S.S.R. failure (Welfare versus Work); we are heading the same direction; ONLY WORSE WITH ALL THIS SPENDING BY BOTH PARTIES!!!

[DKCOON]

09:39 AM on 03/11/2012

Here's a statistic for you............

The unemployment rate went up 3.5% during Bush and only went up .5% under Obama..........

Yes, the GOP ran unemployment up 7 times as much as the Democrat Presidency.............

By the end of Obama's Presidency, in five years, that will look even better............

[Greenfoam]

08:14 PM on 03/19/2012

Please post the numbers... What was the unemployment rate when Obama took office and what is it now?

[maryfred]

06:37 PM on 03/10/2012

...oh yeah, DO THE MATH:)

[maryfred]

06:36 PM on 03/10/2012

THE GREATEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT...EVER!!

[cchan890]

06:00 PM on 03/09/2012

I'll definitely vote for Obama in this term, no matter what he did in his past 4 years. If people want to blame him, better blame G. Bush. Obama did a job for the country & tried helping poverty & middle class people. Not like those republican, they're too greedy for themselves, not for the country.

[medusa0024]

05:49 AM on 03/09/2012

Remember thru all the hardsips we had a LEADER who is honest!

[Lauro Andrea]

01:53 AM on 03/09/2012

I understand job loss and and mortgage failure and even complete moral and financial bankruptcy. What the US has been through as a result of lack of transparency and bad leadership could have almost destroyed America as a nation. This economic crisis almost took down with it the rest of the developed world.
What I don't understand is why people in America blame the failure of a quick-reboot on Obama. The scope of the damage versus the resources left with which to fix it was a huge imbalance in itself. It's like getting your hurricane- ravaged home rebuilt with a tube of glue.

The fact the people are getting jobs again and the cause of the situation is slowly being resolved is one great step forward that will bear fruits. Consider the last 8 Bush years as 20 steps backwards and te last 4 Obama years as a step forward.

For the flack, disrespect and insult that Obama had to face as America's first black president, I'd say that he did a great job shepherding the country along.

[WeAlwaysKnewIt]

09:48 PM on 03/08/2012

Amazing preview inside the making of this president. This has been a tough road traveled.

[inthelandoftheblind]

07:39 AM on 03/09/2012

He must be a glutton for punishment - to want more of the same.For all his hard work he has been accused of just about everything, including being evil & causing the economic crash that Bush & Cheney's wrecking crew should take a bow for.

It sure was a series of events - like dominoes falling - of epic proportions, of extensive scope, nothing short of a masterful & deliberate wave of destruction, which was set in motion & began before Obama was even elected!.

I can't see any of the clowns running in the R party worth even considering for the job.If only the Rs could try to be more helpful in his 2nd term, in stead of deliberately trying to make everything more difficult by being obstreperous... we might see this economy improving more rapidly!

[catz1515]

05:31 PM on 03/08/2012

LOVED the trailer!!! can't wait to see the movie.