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Summary A steely Barack Obama stands alone, reeling off tough decisions on multiple crises.
This in a new movie narrated by Tom Hanks, which will debut as the presidents reelection bid cranks into life.Obamas campaign Thursday released a two-minute trailer for the dramatic documentary which will come out next week, featuring key administration figures relating his role in saving the economy and killing Osama bin Laden.How do we understand this president and his time in office? Hanks asks over footage of Obamas euphoric victory rally in Chicago on the night of his 2008 election triumph.Do we look at the days headlines, or do we look at what we as a country have been through, Hanks said, in the movie The Road Weve Traveled by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim.The film is an attempt by the Obama campaign to place the daily struggles and bitter partisan fights in a larger context, and a bid to spin Obama as successfully steering his nation through troubled times.The trailer shows key Obama economic advisers talking about a meeting Obama held as president-elect in Chicago at which he first learned the true depth of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s Great Depression.It features consumer champion and Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren praising Obamas decision to save the US auto industry and fetes the president for passing health care reform, a goal of Democrats for decades.And Vice President Joe Biden relates the dramatic, and lonely moment of decision for Obama on the high-risk Navy SEALS raid which killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May.As he walked out of the room, it dawned on me, he is all alone, this is his decision and nobody is standing there with him, Biden said over a still photo of Obama in the shadows staring out of a window onto the south lawn of the White House.--AFP
