Why I Love Obama

If you're one of the many conservative Christians I know, that blog title probably sent a surge of rage through your veins. Sorry about that. Please allow me to start over.

I don't love Obama. I am not particularly impressed with the way he's held office, and I am not particularly disappointed either. I hold fiercely to my "right wing, left wing, chicken wing" stance when it comes to politics. Some of my views on things like abortion are pretty old school and very much to the right, while other issues that have come up specifically in California leave me on the fence or dancing over to the left.

But this I know.

I am called to love President Obama just as I would my church family, my next door neighbor, or my best friend.

I know people personally that take a jab at this dude every single chance they get. Their facebook is littered with hateful propaganda, or they fill time sending email forwards urging me to boycott this or write a letter to so and so to STOP THIS MAN! And while that is all well and good, the thing that bothers me is not the agenda - but the attitude.

Today Obama released his long form birth certificate for all the world to see. The obsession over it by the American public was already sort of ridiculous, and never would have been an issue had this man um, looked like past presidents, and let's leave it at that. I am so glad that people are going to have to shush now that it's been issued. Though, I know, they will just move onto the next thing. Poor guy. Let him do his job, even if he doesn't always do it perfectly. Because you aren't perfect at work either.

This writer says exactly what is continually on my heart. So I'll let him wrap this up.

But really Christians, can we please stop behaving badly, and start to act in love as we are called to? Otherwise, just keep the veers from biblical truth off of my Facebook and out of my inbox.

Thankyouverymuch.