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US ELECTIONS 08: BARACK OBAMA: Blog: Crossing Over to Support Barack

/noticias.info/ Barack has said many times that men and women across the county come up to him and tell him, often in hushed voices, that even though they are Republicans, they are voting for him. And this November will be no different.

New York Times best selling author Frank Schaeffer recently wrote an article at the Huffington Post explaining why, as a lifelong Republican, he will be voting for Barack in the General Election:

This is a great day for those of us who have been fighting for Senator Obama! I'm a good example of why he'll win in November. I'm the least typical Obama supporter. And there are many more like me.

I cut my political teeth in the seventies through the early eighties as an organizer in the antiabortion religious right. I'm a fifty-five year old white man who has been a conservative most of my life. I've been a Republican activist who campaigned for McCain in 2000. I'm a big fan of the military. My son served in the Marines. If Obama can reach me he can reach anyone.

...As I see it our choice is between a heroic old man whose time has long past and who will perpetuate failed policy, and a brilliant, openhearted new founding father of the new post-racial, post-divided America the likes of which we have not seen.

...Obama touches me. He has a prophetic authenticity that reminds me of W.E.B. Du Bois' prayers that Du Bois sometimes wrote for his students. Obama also brings a touch of Billy Graham with him to the podium. His is a deeply spiritual call. And his critics that have dismissed Obama's ability to inspire as "mere words" are dead wrong.

We have never needed inspiration more. And we have never needed a president to inspire the rest of the world more. Every international opinion poll shows that Obama is not only the most popular American leader, perhaps ever, but more popular than any other world leader today.

The general election will be a tough fight, but with your support, we can spread Barack's message to all Americans. notas_de_prensa_archivo