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"60 Minutes Presents: Obama: All Access- Barack Obama's Road to the White House"
This is a DVD recap of the highlights of a visionary, intelligent man who
ascended to the presidency against the odds of history and tradition. To do
what he did, he had to break barriers and do verbal and political combat
against opponents more seasoned than he. From his official announcement in
early 2007, Steve Kroft, reporter for 60-minutes, tracked Obama, piling up
footage in interviews and speeches, betting his time and CBS' resources on the
unfolding story. That bet paid off in an extensive and much-watched
60-minutes segment and, now, in the historical content of this DVD.
The main menu (called the "Basic Menu") presents Obama's major speeches,
beginning with his announcement of candidacy in Springfield, Il on that cold,
crisply sunny, February morning in 2007. While this has been exhaustively
seen in excerpts, the entirety of it is far more impressive. Seen in the
perspective of the final outcome, it becomes obvious that he laid out the
themes of his whole campaign as he dynamically presented them on that first
day.
By the time you run through all the speeches contained here, you are
convinced that this man is as good an orator as any speaker living
today--predecessor Bill Clinton included.
An auxiliary menu includes additional footage:
Seen together, the full speeches gives one a sense of Obama's oratory style
and speech structure. It suggests a solid mind, a flexible approach, and a
calm, deliberative demeanor capable of humor and a very deep and wide degree
of class understanding. Is there a "best" speech? I'd go for the one at the
convention as, arguably, most comprehensive and inspiring.
It's clear from the proportion of time the media devotes to every moment in
the president's day--every day--that the fascination with him, his leadership
style and methodology, peeks into his private, unofficial activity, inherent
decency and continued high performance rating, that the nation holds a regard
toward him that exceeds the attention afforded to any president. One may say
he's the most dominant and intriguing personality of the time.
Anyone with a desire to obtain a fuller prespective of that will want this
DVD--that they might look back on the process that led to his occupation of
the Oval Office. And to those who suffered the outrages of the Bush
occupancy--an obsession is more than understandable. The historic sea change
that Obama represents inspires such a massive sigh of relief that it can well
set off a tsunami cleansing of government. Would that it will.
Released: 2/10/09), Runtime: 225 minutes.
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