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Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Obama Will Triumph — So Will America
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. 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.

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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.

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The Future Looks Good

After Obama has served two full terms, (and he will), after his wisdom in moving deliberately and cautiously with great subtlety on all fronts -- with a canny and calculating eye to the possible succeeds, (it will), after the economy is booming and new industries are burgeoning, (they will be), after the doomsayers are all proved not just wrong but silly: let the record show that not all Americans were panicked into thinking the sky was falling.

Just because we didn’t get everything we wanted in the first short and fraught year Obama was in office not all of us gave up. Some of us stayed the course. And we will be proved right.


READ ON..............
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/21/895166/-Oba...
http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-will-...


hmmmmmmmmmmm, sounds good to me, kpete

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  -Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America kpete  Aug-21-10 10:35 PM   #0 
  - Frank Schaeffer is an ex-religious right activist and ex-Republican  bluestateguy   Aug-21-10 10:37 PM   #1 
  - I think he understands more than their mindset  DFLforever   Aug-21-10 10:46 PM   #2 
  - He gets the messages the RW religious nuts send out. Messages which I don't know. I appreciate it  Pirate Smile   Aug-21-10 11:03 PM   #6 
  - Certainly.  Dawson Leery   Aug-21-10 11:19 PM   #7 
  - well , if he was dumb enough to be a religious right activist and republican...  tomp   Aug-21-10 11:26 PM   #9 
     - It's called "learning from your mistakes"...  damonm   Aug-22-10 01:29 AM   #17 
     - That made me laugh  BeyondGeography   Aug-22-10 11:31 AM   #27 
     - no, stupid, he's just making another mistake.  tomp   Aug-23-10 09:45 PM   #69 
     - Sounds like he was born into it - that's tough to overcome  Merlot   Aug-22-10 01:45 PM   #28 
     - I tend not to trust him  martymar64   Aug-23-10 07:46 PM   #64 
     - Yes in the pre birthing lobby while still in a cosmic neutral state his soul  grantcart   Aug-22-10 06:32 PM   #44 
        - so anyone who undoes a past mistake or overcomes family adversity....  tomp   Aug-23-10 09:49 PM   #70 
  - My money is and always has been on this president. nt  AtomicKitten   Aug-21-10 10:47 PM   #3 
  - I've always felt that Obama will succeed in the end.  Pennie109   Aug-21-10 10:55 PM   #5 
     - He's still dealing with that shit sandwich he was handed coming in the door. nt  AtomicKitten   Aug-21-10 11:22 PM   #8 
     - Look! Here's George making lunch as we speak!  Kurovski   Aug-21-10 11:52 PM   #13 
        - mookie stinks!  AtomicKitten   Aug-22-10 01:01 AM   #15 
        - OMG! ROFL!!! Thanks - I needed that!  calimary   Aug-22-10 11:10 PM   #55 
           - You're welcome!  Kurovski   Aug-23-10 10:53 AM   #59 
              - OMG - I can't even look at that without laughing!  calimary   Aug-23-10 09:16 PM   #68 
     - It's like I posted yesterday on another thread:  NBachers   Aug-22-10 10:00 PM   #53 
  - Based on Obama's track record, not just in his campaign but in his life in general...  phleshdef   Aug-21-10 10:52 PM   #4 
  - Not always  localroger   Aug-22-10 10:07 AM   #23 
  - What has he won?  avaistheone1   Aug-23-10 11:10 AM   #62 
  - Schaeffer must have typed that with one hand.  katandmoon   Aug-21-10 11:35 PM   #10 
  - clever.... really.  dionysus   Aug-22-10 12:41 AM   #14 
  - No kidding. nt  glitch   Aug-22-10 09:06 AM   #22 
  - somebody call the houngan, Agnew's ghost got out again and is haunting DKos nt  MisterP   Aug-21-10 11:43 PM   #11 
  - My President  greenman3610   Aug-21-10 11:48 PM   #12 
  - If you can't take the heat... n/t  theaocp   Aug-22-10 06:08 PM   #41 
  - I love the Henny Penny reference. LOL. Very insightful. (nt)  Tarheel_Dem   Aug-22-10 01:16 AM   #16 
  - I just posted it to my Facebook.  lamp_shade   Aug-22-10 04:44 AM   #18 
  - "easily distracted left" .... bingo  scheming daemons   Aug-22-10 06:11 AM   #19 
  - I am NOT easily dis...  jmondine   Aug-22-10 10:48 AM   #26 
     - What...  Kurovski   Aug-23-10 10:56 AM   #60 
  - Hey, didn't Frank Schaeffer get that fundy RW seed from his father?  tanyev   Aug-22-10 07:27 AM   #20 
  - No, no, no, that's the Muslim seed that's patrilineal  localroger   Aug-22-10 10:13 AM   #24 
  - Unlike teh gay, RW fundiness *is* a choice. lol n/t  Beartracks   Aug-23-10 08:38 PM   #67 
  - Simplistic, shallow but broad brush strokes.  glitch   Aug-22-10 09:05 AM   #21 
  - Actually your comment is all the proof he needs!  SkyDaddy7   Aug-22-10 04:46 PM   #35 
  - No one's quitting here, just disagreeing. nt  glitch   Aug-22-10 05:43 PM   #39 
  - +1000 nt  laughingliberal   Aug-22-10 08:17 PM   #50 
  - We want him to do more and not just the baby steps he's been taking  martymar64   Aug-23-10 07:57 PM   #65 
     - FDR would not have survived one term in todays political climate...  SkyDaddy7   Aug-24-10 07:46 AM   #74 
  - +1 FTW  theaocp   Aug-22-10 06:10 PM   #42 
  - K&R  Phx_Dem   Aug-22-10 10:27 AM   #25 
  - I hope he is right. Still waiting for facts to support the hope  yurbud   Aug-22-10 01:57 PM   #29 
  - "this white, straight, 57-year-old, former religious right wing agitator"  Safetykitten   Aug-22-10 02:08 PM   #30 
  - Yes, we will devalue his comments 'cause he's straight.  JNelson6563   Aug-22-10 04:28 PM   #31 
  - I agree with this article.  JNelson6563   Aug-22-10 04:29 PM   #32 
  - We have differing definitions for the words triumph, success, and good.  Jakes Progress   Aug-22-10 04:32 PM   #33 
  - "easily distracted left" ???? FUCK THAT SHIT  Roland99   Aug-22-10 04:45 PM   #34 
  - "Any plan I sign must include... a public option  MannyGoldstein   Aug-22-10 06:26 PM   #43 
     - Exactly! Plus watered-down Wall St "reform". PATRIOT Act still in force. Gitmo still open.  Roland99   Aug-23-10 05:51 AM   #57 
  - Ok...... nothing in here but his opinion  DireStrike   Aug-22-10 05:18 PM   #36 
  - I just hope more thinking Americans vote than the selfish, mindless sheep.  Kablooie   Aug-22-10 05:38 PM   #37 
  - IMHO we will not pull out of this nosedive because of Obama's decision not to...  pgodbold   Aug-22-10 05:39 PM   #38 
  - I'd read this, but apparently, I'm "easily distracted"  theaocp   Aug-22-10 06:06 PM   #40 
  - Amazing how comfortable they are getting at saying things like this  obxhead   Aug-22-10 10:16 PM   #54 
     - I wouldn't say that. Some of us are Obama supporters who are  Fire1   Aug-23-10 11:22 AM   #63 
  - Not unless we start a media realignment  Doctor_J   Aug-22-10 06:34 PM   #45 
  - Another homerun from Frank Schaeffer. nt  Cognitive_Resonance   Aug-22-10 06:37 PM   #46 
  - Future looks good  Mod12   Aug-22-10 06:55 PM   #47 
  - Or maybe not. The bankers seemed to have made out ok, though.  stuart68   Aug-22-10 07:50 PM   #48 
  - He's probably rich so everything's fine and dandy!  martymar64   Aug-23-10 08:00 PM   #66 
  - I'm sticking with the POTUS, the alternative means turning back instead of going ahead.  Historic NY   Aug-22-10 08:00 PM   #49 
  - Good to hear. So when will we win healthcare for all and controls over Wall Street banksters?  Better Believe It   Aug-22-10 09:11 PM   #51 
  - Voting for the winner...  redixdoragon   Aug-22-10 09:40 PM   #52 
  - Problem with all of the criticism of the left that supported Obama  becxx   Aug-23-10 01:07 AM   #56 
  - Preaching to the choir  nxylas   Aug-23-10 06:09 AM   #58 
  - The future's so bright....  Barack2theFuture   Aug-23-10 11:08 AM   #61 
  - Hillary - 2012  golfguru   Aug-23-10 10:18 PM   #71 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Aug-24-10 12:14 AM   #72 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Aug-24-10 02:32 PM   #76 
  - Facts never fool anyone n/t  golfguru   Aug-24-10 05:31 PM   #77 
  - Glad 1992-2000 were good years for you. Was Hillary President then?  Hekate   Aug-25-10 04:23 AM   #78 
  - He gives me a lot of reassurance this guy. Optimism is how I roll.  DemocraticPilgrim   Aug-24-10 12:23 AM   #73 
  - Indeed..nt  and-justice-for-all   Aug-24-10 11:26 AM   #75 
 

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