Obama Will Win: Why and How His Critics from the Left and Right Will be Proven Wrong

[firedupdem]

:patriot: Well worth the read!


Before he'd served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted Left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds --- including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious Rightwing agitator, now progressive writer and (given my background as the son of a famous evangelical leader) this unlikely Obama supporter --- are sticking with our President. Why? Because he is succeeding.

We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us.

Obama's steady supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst...

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'Help' from the Left?

Those that had stood in transfixed legions weeping with beatific emotion on Election Night turned into an angry mob saying how 'disappointed' they were that they'd not all immediately been translated to heaven the moment Obama stepped into the White House! Where was the 'change'?
What did the Left do to help their newly elected President? Some of them excoriated Obama because they disagreed with the bad choices he was being forced to make regarding a war in Afghanistan that he'd inherited from the worst president in modern history!

Others stood up and bravely proclaimed that the President's economic policies had "failed" before the President even instituted them! Others said that since all gay rights battles had not been fully won within virtually minutes of the President taking office, they'd been "betrayed"! (Never mind that Obama's vocal support to the gay community is stronger than any other President's has been. Never that mind he signed a new hate crimes law which included language punishing hate crimes against homosexuals for the first time!)

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7595

[NJmaverick]

1. I like that discription of the "easily distracted left"

never really thought about that, but it is so true.

[azmouse]

2. Excellent.

What a shame this isn't being read by those in GD.
They do not have the open mind or open heart to hear the words they really need to hear.

[firedupdem]

3. not at all....

there will be a swarm of garbage, inflammatory comments etc.

[Cha]

8. They'd be callng Frank Schaeffer ugly names.

[firedupdem]

4. I read that Jane Hamsher woman is on Fox....

I guess she's furthering her alliance with the tea baggers. uugh

[Cha]

9. Not all all surprised..I emailed her back today in

repsonse to a "Kill the Bill" petition". I wrote "No, kill your Trash Talk, hamsher".

[LiberalAndProud]

5. I enjoy Frank Schaeffer's work.

He writes so well what I've been thinking.

[Arkana]

6. History will remember Obama succeeding on health care

where Truman and Clinton did not.

The books will say, when we finally do get a European-style system, "The Obama administration is widely considered among Presidential historians to be the one that finally got the ball rolling in 2009 when the first comprehensive healthcare legislation in (like forever) crossed the President's desk".

[Cha]

10. In spite of all the obstructionists on the right

and those who would March With The Teabaggers.

[Cha]

7. Frank Schaeffer, no wonder! Thanks, firedupdem..

"We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us.

Obama's steady supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst..."

This is how I see them on DU.

<more snips from your article>

Here is what Obama faced when he took office-- none of which was his fault:

•An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries
•Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral
•The worst economic crisis since the depression
•America's standing in the world at the lowest point in history
•A country that had been misled into accepting the use of torture of prisoners of war
•A health care system in free fall
•An educational system in free fall
•A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush administration and the Republicans had done nothing)
•An impasse between culture warriors from the Right and Left
•A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration…
And those were only some of the problems sitting on the President's desk!

'Help' from the Right?

The reactionary white, rube, uneducated, crazy American far Right, combined with the educated but obtuse neoconservative war mongers, religious Right shills for big business, libertarian Fed Reserve-hating gold bug, gun-loving crazies, child-molesting acquiescent "bishops", frontier loons and evangelical gay-hating flakes found one thing to briefly unite them: their desire to stop an uppity black man from succeeding at all costs!
What did the Republicans and the religious Right, libertarians and half-baked conspiracy theorists --- that is what the Republicans were reduced to by the time Obama took office --- do to "help" our new president (and our country) succeed? They claimed that he wasn't a real American, didn't have an American birth certificate, wasn't born here, was secretly a Muslim, was a white-hating "racist", was secretly a communist, was actually the Anti-Christ, (!) and was a reincarnation of Hitler and wanted "death panels" to kill the elderly!

[firedupdem]

11. As Number23 stated when she posted this in AAIG....

He.Broke.It.Down!

That article is excellent!

[gratefultobelib]

12. Oh yes! I figured this was Frank Schaeffer. He is great.

[Silver Gaia]

13. That was great! Thanks. n/t