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Obama Will Triumph
My sister e-mailed this to me with the note calling it "a more balanced view, and even if ca-ca, no different than the ca-ca" I send her. I found the original article at the author's blog, and though y'all might find the perspective interesting. The author wrote an excellent book Keeping Faith--A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps, so I give him credit for that.By Frank Schaeffer 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. Good thing no one here is hate-filled, Frank. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds - including this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing 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. It's just that the number of the faithful is still declining. They're just becoming more selective, as in Spinal Tap ... Obama's steady supporters will be proved right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst. Posted by: Bobby 2010-05-04 |
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