"We find ourselves in the position of survivors of a shipwreck clinging to a life raft. President Obama is that “life raft.” Our young president is leading us at a time of extraordinary peril. He and we face overwhelming challenges including two wars and a financial crisis he had dumped into his lap by fools. When we hear that jobless numbers are going down faster than expected, that shoppers spent money over the holidays, that economic forecasts are being revised upward and so on, it’s time for a reassessment of the President’s critic’s claims of impending doom because of his many alleged “mistakes.” (These include such “facts” as the accusations that Obama “sold out” to Wall Street, is “too ready to compromise” etc., etc.)"Frank Schaeffer (via azspot)
Obama gets knee-capped every step of the way by a useless opposition of “death panels”, Obamacare innuendo for total takeover of the health care industry, socialism as a moral disservice to America, taking “social justice” out of the Church’s mission, lobbyists and corporations in a blood contract to take as much profits as they can, and countless more willfully ignorant detractors.
Obama is not about perfection. Obama is about pragmatism in an age of distractions and greed. We are a cell phone culture, staring at a LCD screen, awaiting a text or email to change our minds or plans, continually searching for a bigger, better deal.
Instant is not quick enough for a growing section of the population. I can deal with that, the cell phone zombie culture of America needs tweets and Facebook updates to feel normal. That being said, when we look back on the long-term achievements of Obama, never forget the context to what, and how, he did things. I feel lucky just thinking about it.
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