I did not vote for Obama - but I will support him as our President and hope for the best for our Country.


It's not in me to speak out against the leader of America, never have and never will...- we all need to be like that...democrats/republican - the senseless bickering needs to stop, it's childish.


I personally am very down-the-middle way of thinking, and have many family members/friends who are on EXTREME sides of how they think -- it is SO frustrating to be in the same room with people who oppose each other so much that basic respect is not given to each other. I'm always in the middle trying to calm these people down...it wears me out, ha.


I've always believed, above what anyone else says or who the President is or is not, I am responsible for my life, my happiness and making the best of it for myself -- nobody else. So my mindset is, I make the most of whatever comes my way -- no matter what it is.

There is no other choice in life...and I really do not see how everyone else doesn't "get" that.


It's sad that now so many are celebrating as if their lives are suddenly going to change - and many are acting as it their lives are about to fall apart....

The President does not make anyone's life good or bad - it's up to each of us to do that on our own. That is what is important.


"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - (Gandhi)

Don't wait for someone to make it happen for you.


and support our Country, regardless of how you voted, please....the bickering needs to stop.

I also did not vote for Obama, but I did say a prayer for him as our leader and for his family's safety and that he do the best job possible in this crazy country. I will support him and assume he will do the best he can, just like every other president before.

i also voted mccain but will support obama.


our country needs to unify to move forward.


glad to see obama looking and acting like a president and a leader in his first press conference thursday.

i thought his "nancy reagan-seance" crack was a big lapse in judgement, though.

especially since it was Hillary that was doing the seances

I think it is some sort of virus that inhabits the white house, people have been doing seances in there since "spiritualism"

it still stikes me as odd how all the stories of Presidents haunting the White House when hardly any Presidents ever died in the White House

sorry, off topic

By any chance, do you know what Presidents did die in the White House?

This was a Historical Election in so many ways. Involvement is the key. Get involved HEAVILY in the locals elections too. Those are the ones that effect your home the most. Research the issues so that YOUR VOTE TRULY MEANS THE MOST IT CAN!!! Stay involved, I am.......

Although I agree, for the most part, with the ideas behind your post...this part I totally disagree with.

Part of the beauty of being an American is the fact that we have the freedom to speak out about things we think are wrong.

Be it abortion, or who the President is, or the President's ideals. We have the right to speak out.

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny” Thomas Jefferson

Beware of all politicians. The only bright side to Obama being elected is that McCain will not be the president. Had McCain won I would have simply reversed the two names in my statement.

Firstly, thanks SO much for this post! A breath of fresh air, it is!

Secondly, I dunno about presidents, but Lincoln's son died in the White House, and its true that MANY first ladies have done seances there through the years. Mary Todd Lincoln was one of the most active, but by far not the only or the most recent.

Hmmm....I thought it was Nancy Reagan.

This is interesting. I'm going to have look into it.

nahhh, that was why he called Nacy to apologize

Nancy did consult astrologers

and Hillary was the one who said she channeled Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the original poster makes some good points in her thinking and I appreciate that there are people who do try their best to keep both sides from wanting to "war" with each other, sometimes for little more than the sake of fighting.

That stated, there is a difference between supporting the office of the President, supporting the results of the election, and supporting the policies that the President will be involved with.

I support President-elect Obama in that I support his rightful place as our next president. He won the election and in that I am grateful that we transfer power in a peaceful and civilized way, I support what occurred in the recent election. As the President, I will support those provisions that the Constitution allows and I wish him well.

But I don't support his politics. I don't support many of his ideas nor do I support his view on the role government should play in our nation. For the sake of full disclosure, I did not support Senator McCain's politics either, at least not for the most part. I support a more constitutional approach to government, a much more limited federal government and a much more active state government. States have their own constitutions for a reason--but it seems these days that a lot of those reasons have been obscured by a bloated and over-reaching federal machine.

Most of my fellow citizens do not agree with me and the majority of them felt that President-elect Barack Obama was the right man for the job. I respect that they felt that way and that as a result he'll be our next President. But I'll be there every step of the way to question, to comment on and to write about both the good and the bad.

I don't think it's patriotic to dissent simply for the sake of blind ideological trust. Nor do I believe it makes a person less of a patriot for disagreeing with the status quo. I believe however that to question our government and the actions taken by the people we elect is not just a right but a responsibility. I believe that there is no greater freedom than that which allows us to question power. Many people believed under the current administration that we had lost that right. Barack Obama's nomination and election should forever silence that crowd as his election proves without any doubt that we can change our government, that every four years we have the right to throw out the old and usher in the new.

I wish President-elect Obama the best. I recognize the historical significance of his having been elected and I recognize how proud a number of people are as a result of his election. Time will tell if he also recognizes that a large number of people did not vote for him. Some didn't because they did not "like him" but a number of us didn't because while we might like him well enough as a man, we don't like his politics.

I'm in the latter of the two camps so it will be an interesting four years for me. Then again, it's already started (his wish to hire Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff [COS] despite his having served for a few years on the board of Freddie Mac) but I'll be fair--I promise. :)

Drew