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| 2010-05-04 |
| 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 |
| #18 OTOH WAFF > POSTER OP-ED > WHAT IFF WE DIVIDE EUROPE INTO NORTH AND SOUTH??? and WMF > "CHEONAN" INCIDENT MAY KEEP KOREAS DIVIDED FOR NEXT 100 IEARS. Dare OWG-NWO "GLOBALISM" + Commie-Soc-Govtist UNIVERSAL UNITARIANSM = "DIVIDE-N-CONQUER" SEPARATISM + NATIONALISM??? Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM >"AMERICA/US MUST BE RESTRAINED, CONTROLLED, ETC" > As per our SAMERICAN = AMERIKAN NATIONAL COMMUNISM, GOOD LOYAL FASCIST DECADENT CAPITALIST MALE BRUTES DEMAND TO BE ATTACKED AND DESTROYED. Wehell, AMERICA = AMERIKA was indeed attacked on 9-11 [among Other e.g. OKC Bombing, 1993 NYC] - AS FOR BEING "DESTROYED", WE'LL SEE SOON ENUFF CIRCA 2012 OR VERY SHORTLY AFTER WHEN IRAN, RADIC ISLAM + MILTERRS FORMALLY DECLARE THEY POSSESS NUKES-WMDS [Rise of Islamist-led Nuclear Militancy-Terrorism agz US-World]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-04 21:03 |
| #17 All I can figure is that Frank S. is delusional or in some deep, dark stage of denial. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-04 18:48 |
| #16 Make sure there's a slave in the chariot with him, to whisper in his ear the traditional warning: "Sic transit gloria mundi"* Back in those days you gotta wonder what the competition was like between slaves for that job. After you... No, after you. Oh, no, no, no. I wouldn't dream of it. After you. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-05-04 16:17 |
| #15 A Triumph? Make sure there's a slave in the chariot with him, to whisper in his ear the traditional warning: "Sic transit gloria mundi"* *"All earthly glory is fleeting." |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-05-04 14:55 |
| #14 Frank, wipe your chin. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Jefferson 2010-05-04 14:06 |
| #13 This guy is a presidential knob gobbler. You can no more expect him to see bambi for the empty suit he is than you can expect a rock to sing. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-05-04 13:32 |
| #12 He is successful---transforming USA into banana republic. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-04 13:11 |
| #11 # An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries. What Frank really means by "ideologically divided" is that a large portion of their followers no longer believe the liberal lies. # Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral Frank failed to note the last US military offensive in Iraq ( AKA The Surge ) essentially won the war for America ( AKA Forces for Freedom ) # America's standing in the world at the lowest point in history Frank's right. US won the war in Iraq; that would certainly cause our standing to decline in the eyes of the transnational socialists # A country that had been misled into accepting the use of torture of prisoners of war Franks skips merrily passed the truth. Captives were not POWs but illegal combatants.. # An educational system in free fall Frank's right. After billions of dollars, and an industry predominated by statists and liberals, the education system is in freefall. Let's dismantle it. # A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush administration and the Republicans had done nothing) The only thing thing history-altering about global warming is that global warming is now a bad joke # An impasse between culture warriors from the right and left There's no impasse. The left won. The right no longer partakes in the sh*tty garbage known as culture.. The business of culture is in irreversable decline. Enjoy the win. # A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration... And Obama quadruples it, FTW. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-05-04 12:19 |
| #10 I read Keeping Faith when it came out and was mostly impressed, but I hadn't kept up with him since. While reading it I got a sense that his conservative convictions weren't very deep and were mostly an emotional reaction to his son's deployment. Having undergone a major worldview realignment myself, culminating after 9/11, I can empathize with such changes, but he seems to be something of a weather vane. Myself, I can't envision ever going back to my old worldview. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2010-05-04 11:57 |
| #9 after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be) -- only if a huge gold meteorite with a creamy nougat core of light sweet crude falls on a joint session of Congress. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-05-04 11:51 |
| #8 "Uppity black man"? I thought he was half-white? And - Are we caring, these days? Whassamatta, he didn't have Jesse Jackson endorse his "black man" card? |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-05-04 11:35 |
| #7 Sound like Triumph of the One's Will. Needs more |
| Posted by: ed 2010-05-04 10:54 |
| #6 " to diminish the number of abortions through compassionate programs to help women " Repeating a lie does not make it true. Public funding of abortions will increase the number of them. |
| Posted by: No I am the other Beldar 2010-05-04 09:55 |
| #5 --This was written before last Christmas, nothing new has occurred since then.. /sarc |
| Posted by: Tom--Pa 2010-05-04 09:52 |
| #4 Hey, get out of the way! I saw the CoolAid first. |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2010-05-04 08:54 |
| #3 I hereby withdraw this tool's "Frank Card". He is now Francis. Talk about delusional. Obama dropped from the heavens, absent of sin, or even a prior voting record or church attendance history. I sense another Andi Sullivan: "I'm a reichwinger who woke up and saw the light". |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-04 08:40 |
| #2 Curse the darkness if you must, but vote Republican in November for results you can believe in. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-04 08:04 |
| #1 Note to the "reality based community": screaming at the top of your lungs does not make the "bad voices" go away. Medication does. Try some. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-05-04 07:43 |