‘Obama’ review: HBO recalls his achievements, detractors in six-hour Barackumentary.

‘Obama’ review: HBO recalls his achievements, detractors in six-hour Barackumentary.
Billions of people around the world, tens of millions of Americans and just about everyone in Chicago knows the story of Barack Obama inside and out, up and down, told from innumerable perspectives ranging from the highly critical to pure mythologizing to somewhere in between — yet there’s something timely and compelling and fascinating about the three-part, six-hour HBO documentary “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union.”
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Maybe it’s because it simultaneously feels like only yesterday and a million years ago when President-elect Obama issued a glorious and hopeful acceptance speech in Grant Park on a lovely November evening in 2008.
Maybe it’s because it’s still a remarkable thing to revisit Obama’s incredible journey and relive a two-term presidency that was undeniably historic and included some lasting achievements but was also marked by immediate and constant hardcore resistance from the right, setbacks and controversies — and the inevitable feeling that no matter what Obama accomplished, some (including more than a few leaders in the Black community) would feel his greatest achievement was symbolic.