President
Obama's reelection campaign released a trailer for a 17-minute
documentary stressing his accomplishments during his first term in
office.
The trailer, narrated by Tom Hanks, features senior Obama
strategist David Axelrod, Vice President Biden, former White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and former chairman of the White House
Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee, among others.
The
movie highlights the Obama administration's response to the mortgage
crisis and the president's decision to push national healthcare reform,
as well as his decision to give the final OK to a Navy SEAL raid that
resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"If the auto industry
goes down, what happens to America's manufacturing base, what happens
to jobs in America, what happens to the whole Midwest?" says Elizabeth
Warren, a Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, and formerly a
special adviser for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Obama's
reelection campaign plans to release the documentary on March 15. It is
directed by documentarian Davis Guggenheim, who directed former Vice
President Gore's film on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth."
In announcing the documentary,
the Obama campaign said Wednesday it is meant to begin laying out the
reelection campaign's message before Republicans settle on their
presidential nominee.
