Originally Posted by BetsyRoss
I'm ok with people not looking forward to the Obama presidency. A lot of people hate liberalism. A lot of people have serious reservations about Obama. They dislike his politics, his past, his plans for the future. I'm fine with that, and I don't see him making every one happy (and he has made a LOT of promises!). But at the same time I understand why he got elected, why people were so upset with the status quo under Bush, why they suspected that McCain would be a Bush third term, and why they were willing to vote for a wild card just to make the Bush years end. And Obama's organization on the ground was superb. Maybe it's because I live near a large black population, but they were all over and even came to my house - more than once.