Frank Schaeffer BREAKS. IT. DOWN.

[Number23]

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

"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."

..."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..."

Money Snips:

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!

"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!... The President's critics Left and Right all had one thing in common: impatience laced with little-to-no sense of history (let alone reality) thrown in for good measure. Then, of course, there were the white, snide know-it-all commentators/talking heads who just couldn't imagine that maybe, just maybe they weren't as smart as they thought they were and certainly not as smart as their President. He hadn't consulted them, had he? So he must be wrong!"

Does Frank have a way with words or what?? Frank Schaeffer -- you're The Man!! :rofl: ((in the good way, not the bad)) :patriot:

[NOLALady]

1. YES!!!!

[FrenchieCat]

2. BINGO!

[Kind of Blue]

3. Wow! "President Obama is succeeding without

the help of his lefty "supporters" or or hate-filled Republican detractors!"

Thank you, Number23 for finding this :patriot:

[firedupdem]

4. Excellent Article!

Best I've read in quite a long time...I'm going to cross post in the Barack Obama forum. Nice and spot on!

[Number23]

5. It was posted in GD. Last I saw it was up to 3 recs but of course you know

that won't last.

[quiet.american]

6. Excellent. nt

[AspenRose]

7. I really like Frank Schaeffer.

Consistently on point.

[angee_is_mad]

8. Thank you

this is definitely a pick me up.

[Fire1]

9. I've got to bookmark this for future reference. This is the most

sensible and encouraging thing I've read in months. Thanks Number 23! This is refreshing!

[HopeOverFear]

10. he also broke it down on Maddow

it was a thing of beauty.

[TheBigotBasher]

11. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shrive

love it.

It went nowhere on Reddit either, although I will try again.

[FrenchieCat]

12. I posted the OP on the BOG.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388x11735

[TheBigotBasher]

13. Another new place for me.

I thought those were pretty dead after the Primaries so I had not bothered about it. I thought you were on about GD P or GD, as both of those have become a bog for people who were never supporters of the President anyway to dump on.