I am very happy with how it all turned out, however...I hope that the division and hopeless despair of disrespect and obstruction can be circumvented in congress. The last four years have been brutal. Never, in the modern era, has a duly elected president been treated with such contempt and disrespect. It has been astounding and disturbing the way all the wounded and neo-feral racists and suburban trolls have come out of the wood work to lay impotent siege to the man. When he was elected I had the naive thought that we could maybe put some of the racist past to bed, never did I imagine that it would only get worse. I hated Bush; I didn't hate him the way the right seems to hate Obama. Maybe that is naive too. The president needs to act while the icky warm glow of the big hug he gave Chris Chistie after Sandy is still freshly seared into people'c collective unconscious. There is a lot of shit to get done, a lot of nuts and bolts issues of government that need to be attended to, that have been left undone by the sideshow amusement of the election and by the unrestrained hatred of the Republican party. I want some results.
Gay marriage, legal pot, now that's behind us, lets try and fix some stuff.
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