Nope. A great many of us saw his problems right out of the gate. Here in Springfield, Obama's rejection of the Born Alive act was enough to tell any intelligent person where he was coming from and where he would be going. We knew from the get-go he was driven by a rigid ideology disconnected from reality. There is no excuse for anyone having picked him, but especially Christians.
We tried warning people then. We knew about Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Theology. We knew about Bill Ayers. We knew there were problems with his “documentation.” But no one would listen. We were cranks. We were nuts. We were tin foil hat wearers. Nobody listened, and our country has paid dearly for it.
I talk regularly with some Obama supporters at work, who are otherwise good people, who reject gay marriage and abortion etc, but they still support him. Those issues aren't deal breakers. Why is that? I don’t know, but I think there's just a kind of mindless trust that he means well and is so much better than any other option (especially Bush), despite his flaws.
I know no one wants to hear this, but Romney is the Republican version of this phenomenon, with some differences. Romney, I think, is far more intelligent. I’ll give him that. Eight degrees, Harvard Law, private sector success, etc. But we know he too is driven by a rigid belief system that at its heart is alien to what most Americans, especially Christians, believe, though he has protested much to the contrary.
We also know that the people of MA who lived under him, and especially those who share our values, do not lionize him like the newcomers do. Why is that? Is it because despite his claim to conversion on the life issue, his administration continued to harass and pressure people to violate their conscience or lose their healthcare jobs? Is it that he tried to play both sides of the gay marriage issue while given a net advantage to the homosexual agenda? Is it because RomneyCare really does reflect the socialist thinking that would have been so central to the formation of a man with his personal and educational background?
I talk regularly with some Romney supporters at work, who are otherwise good people, who reject gay marriage and abortion etc, but they still support him. Those issues aren't deal breakers. Neither is RomneyCare. I could believe the only real deal breaker was simply being Obama. So I think there's just a kind of mindless trust that because he is very smart, means well (boyscout?), and is not Obama, that we should all just mindlessly fall in line behind him, despite his flaws.
And this despite the warnings. But once again, we dissidents are the cranks, the nuts, the tin foil hat wearers. Nobody is listening, not even Billy Graham, and our country may have yet more to pay for our unwillingness to learn from past mistakes.
Footnote on Billy Graham: He is quite old. I have worked with elders and in elder law, and while many retain their full capacity for critical thinking, many do not. Many times the persuasion of younger persons has more force than it should, simply because the power of will and/or thought is diminished. I think those who are shocked at Billy Graham for taking sides with a purveyor of a false Gospel should withhold judgment, as his capacity to know what he has done may not be what it once was.
Peace,
SR
Ok... I agree with you.. I gave him 10 seconds....and he failed...