The Socialist

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Synopsis: Every age seeks visionaries to leave, in the wake of their genius, a changed world - but rarely are they found without a few strikeout also-rans getting a crack first. In 2008, millions of Americans thought they had found the real thing.

Over the subsequent two years the nation moved inexorably - though rarely without battle - toward European-style socialism. Through the warring perspectives of a few powerful, deluded men and women who claim to know what's best for you resulted a national drama rife with both bureaucracy creation and wealth destruction.

The Socialist moved from the halls of academia to the offices of ACORN to a pew in Chicago, and eventually all the way to the oval office, all the while spurred on by the heady early days of a culture-changing phenomenon in the making. In the midst of the chaos and mounting disasters, average American citizens began to object, eventually adding up to more than the sum of their parts in what has become a multifront, 21st century clash of worldviews.

This film has not yet been rated, but the story received a solid B+ from the White House. Catch the beginning of the end in theaters November 2010, with the ultimate conclusion to be seen worldwide in November of 2012.

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[benhoweblog]

@zoobly3 I used the same exact video/photography timing, style & musical score and logo as the original ad for the "Social Network" movie. This is clearly a parody of that ad and thus falls under Fair Use copyright law.

I've already consulted attorneys on this matter but thank you very much for your very public threat. I'm assuming you have nothing to do with the label given that you didn't handle this through the appropriate channels and seem to have no idea what you are talking about.

[ccraigd89]

Regardless of what Obama used to believe in ...hes just another puppet for corporate interasts

[jwcooper52]

Clearly you don't know what socialism is. You are an idiot.

[endisnighe]

Prescient!!!!!!!!!

[vllmer]

awesome video. funny how all the socialists sputtering about how he's not a socialist.

[ArrogantQuack]

I wish he was a Socialist.  I would like him more.

[ronharrel]

Change for the worse has come to America! Impeach Obama before it is to late!

[CanadianPolybius]

If he were actually a socialist, I'm sure he'd be getting praise, not scorn.

[BleedblueSTL4life]

The true problem is at BEST you can say he has failed to change anything. Which means what? that government he took over was socialist?

[onewhopwns]

Obama didn't nationalize anything,he didn't change anything,it's only a continuation of what that idiot Bush intended to do:More free market,free trade,corporate power,create puppet states.

Obama is not socialist,I AM.

[michaelwuzthere]

Video: well-made

Message: fail.

[Guttiwuts]

@benhoweblog Brilliant video, Ben! Of course, the greatest irony would be if this piece DOESN'T get categorized and protected under the law of parody and satire -- because it is so real; indeed, it should simply be dished out from a PAC and ran on TV every evening until the election. Then the good guys win.