I am truly happy with this.

Of course I had voted for him too. And not because I'm a "liberal democrat" either, because I'm not. I could more accurately be described as a moderate, in the middle, sort of person. Some views of mine can be considered liberal, some conservative, most are in the middle though.

However in this case Obama's views over all matched mine more closely. That and the idea of Palin in the white house is scary to me. McCain's a decent guy but... he's older, and not the healthiest. Palin is not ready to be vice president, let alone running the country, which would be a very real possibility if McCain had won. Scary, scary thought.

That and have you ever noticed how things are on a cycle when it comes to presidents? We'll have a couple of terms of one party, and then couple of another. Here's my theory on things. A president of one group gets elected. His first four, he'll do good work, and balance out the extremes and mistakes of the last eight years from the other party. However then his second term, it's too much of a good thing and then he fucks things up, etc. And so then a candidate of the other party is then elected.

So I say one term each, and stagger one party one year, one another, it'll keep things balanced. Not that it'll ever happen, but it's a thought.

That and people need to stand up more for what they believe in, instead of letting congress, and the house of reps run amok like we have been. Stop being so freaking complacent! Actually got pissed off at a friend tonight telling me that my vote, and opinions don't count, because they don't care, nor listen. So... they may not listen to one person, but they have to listen to many, especially if they want to keep being re-elected. And I feel my vote does count, and my opinions do matter. I'm not going to just not care... and bleah. So I pretty much pissed her off, because I pointed out that a lot of the problems were because much the the public has been too stupid to care, and just assume they can't do a thing about it. *shrugs* She can be mad at me all she wants, I suppose.

Also I do have to give credit to both McCain and Obama's speeches tonight. Both were excellent, and quite eloquent. McCain's also quite graceful at losing, and I give him a LOT of credit for that.

But anyhow..
OBAMA WON!