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

[FrenchieCat]

This article is from late December.
I found it quite fitting to be posted at this forum:

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.

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...

The Context of the Obama Presidency

Not since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second World War and the Depression has any President faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any President led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any President faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition - from both the Right and Left.

As the President's poll numbers have fallen so has his support from some on the Left that were hailing him as a Messiah not long ago; all those lefty websites and commentators that were falling all over themselves on behalf of our first black President during the 2008 election.

The Left's lack of faith has become a self-fulfilling "prophecy" --- snipe at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend you didn't have anything to do with it!

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…
  
• (mine: A media monopoly aimed and ready to analyze, generalize, nit pick, twist, and dramatize to no end)
  

And those were only some of the problems sitting on the President's desk!


Much more here: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7595

Also to note that David Swanson, a DUer, has now published a counterpoint in reply to the following editorial. The link of this rebuttal can also be at the link above.

[NJmaverick]

1. Why am I not surprised the counter point to this really great article came from DU?

[Cha]

2. Gotta love Frank Schaeffer..what a perspective

he has and it doesn't hurt that he's brilliant in his observation and knowledge.

Another OP to keep kicked to the top so we can always have it handy..thanks Frenchie.

I already know I don't like david swanson and his ever present whining about the President.

And, no one better come in here and say negative crap about this..this is a hate free President Obama zone:patriot::bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

3. I like Frank Schaffer more and more all the time.

Thanks for posting this, Frenchie.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. Excellent,

thanks for posting it.


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[Peacetrain]

5. Thank you I needed that.. just got back from reading that the President is a warmonger

and throwing Reid under the bus in an op about Obama being so gracious and understanding to Reid, who has his size 9's stuck in his mouth again

[rebel with a cause]

6. Thanks Frenchie.

Great article. I don't need to read David Swanson's counterpoint. It has nothing I care to see.

[johnaries]

7. I really love this part:

Who actually has failed...

...are the Americans that can't see the beginning of a miracle of national rebirth right under their jaded noses. Who failed are the smart ass ideologues of the Left and Right who began rooting for this President to fail so that they could be proven right in their dire and morbid predictions. Who failed are the movers and shakers behind our obscenely dumb news cycles that have turned "news" into just more stupid entertainment for an entertainment-besotted infantile country.

Here's the good news: President Obama is succeeding without the help of his lefty "supporters" or hate-filled Republican detractors!

So true.....

[FrenchieCat]

8. and this piece goes very well as companion reading, IMO!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388x11608

[goclark]

9. Thanks so much Frenchie nt

[Cha]

10. President Obama is governing how

he and his Team think is the best way to turn our country's crisis around ..that's what they're after. Not to cater to groups who are only thinking of themselves.

And, the corporatemedia is always in the tank for the gop and the tax cuts. They'd sell the country to China if they still got tax cuts.

[Cha]

11. To the TOP

[Hekate]

12. Frenchie--TY for this great, and I hope accurate, article.

:kick:

Hekate

[Cha]

13. TOP.