HuffPost / Frank Schaeffer: With the Senate closing in on voting to ratify the “New Start” treaty with Russia, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Obama’s critics from the Left and Right have — once again — been proved dead wrong…..
Once again, the president has proved smarter than his critics, let alone than the Republican “leadership.”
….As for the Left it’s also trying to undermine the president with talk about a sellout to Wall Street, “failed” tax policy etc., etc. (Somewhat perversely these days some of Obama’s Lefty critics even seem to be rooting for Julian Assange with a lot more enthusiasm than for their president.) Or as Bob Cesca put it in the Huffington Post:
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to participate in a [progressive] movement where so many colleagues have careened off the rails. We’re supposed to be the smart ones, the reality-based people.
And yet, out of some sort of manic-depression or desire for hipster cred, we’ve become overly preoccupied with tearing down the most liberal president in decades using non-reality-based criticisms instead of laser-focusing our efforts and resources on tearing down the real killers — conservatives, Tea Party people and the GOP.
And that’s not the half of it. Before he’d served even one year, President Obama lost the “support” of the easily distracted, terminally impatient, American “Left” and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right.
But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds … are sticking with our president.
Why? Because he is, has been, and will continue succeeding. Obama’s critics from the Left and Right are being proved dead wrong, again and again.
We Obama supporters trust our first impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us. We also trust our belief that he is the smartest man in any room.
Full article here
Thanks for the link Chi 
I always value Schaeffer’s commentary on President Obama and his policies because he knows the hidden agenda of the GOP and the religious right. Through his books and articles, he has exposed them for what they are: self-centered, power hungry jerks. Cesca is dead on with his assessment of the right and the frustrati. Nothing is ever enough for them. Thank God for those of us who don’t live in LaLa Land and know how difficult it has been for the president to bring his campaign promises to fruition. The right and the frustrati have been proven wrong time after time, but are still intent on trying to destroy this president. I wish they’d take a good look at the polls that show that President Obama still has the support of those who matter. They’d discover that they’re not as useful or powerful as they think they are.
I WILL CONTINUE TO STAND WITH THIS PRESIDENT TO THE VERY END…AND I AM NO GROUPIE, BUT I KNOW A GOOD MAN WHEN I SEE ONE… AND THIS IS A GOOD DECENT MAN WHO IS TRYING SO DAMN HARD TO LIFT AMERICA UP,AND POINT US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!!
AMERICA , IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP…WE HAVE A DIAMOND IN THE WHITEHOUSE FIGHTING FOR “ALL” AMERICANS…RED STATES AND BLUE STATES…COME ON AMERICA…THIS IS “CHANGE” YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!
Powerful statement Lynn.
The repeal of DADT makes me happy but I’m still sad about the Dream Act. I don’t think it has much of a chance when the new “white is right” Congress comes in January.
“We Obama supporters trust our first impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us. We also trust our belief that he is the smartest man in any room.” Halleluyer!