Obama Documentary

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Rejoice, Obamaphiles, because now you can have a documentary to watch about your hero, the man who hosts beer summits out in his back yard.
A crew for the documentary film "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama" .
With all that footage in the can, you'd think they'd find some pretty awful or embarrassing stuff to share -- but no, instead of a gritty expose they came out with "a document of the internal reality of the movement," according to its producer, the very Serious Hollywood Liberal Ed Norton.
This documentary isn't "The War Room," D.A. Pennebaker's 1993 documentary about the Clinton campaign that focused almost exclusively on George Stephanopoulos and James Carville. "By the People" is less expose and more historical record, capturing the campaign from start to finish and most often in a positive light.
"Our intent was never to try to make an expose per se," Norton said after the screening. "I think it was always to make a document of what the internal reality of the movement was."

















