I had a guarded optimism about obama but i still believe he is the better choice for president. McCain supported many not all of bushes polices, and the sad thing about it is that he changed his political views such as on torture after being presured by the gop and others to do so. He is the kind of person who when the pressure was on chose what, he thought or was told, the far-right wanted.

McCain's choice in running mate also put serious doubt into his reasoning and understanding of the situation and needs of the country.

Obama has run into many problems from democrats and republicans as well as a decreased drive to succeed in more liberal polices but he inherited many problems, some he hasn't alleviated but the ones stalling or preventing him from succeeding are left overs from the right wing political body and center-right democrats.

McCain would have been a continuation of the Bush administration more or less,

plus 1 liberal Supreme Court Justice retired, and another is about to,

within four years we would be a religious State like something out of the Middle East, and abortion would be illegal. That would be a long term disaster much more damaging than any short-term war or economic down swing.

... plus it's been like 9 months I don't recall expecting so much of a President in so little time since I've been alive.

No president can overturn Roe V. Wade...only the Supreme Court can do that. I voted for Obama because I thought he could bring change to our country and he's trying to do just that. Even with the quagmire called Health Reform he's a better president than McCain could have ever been. At this juncture I still say Obama, all the way.

Obama was not smart to close Guantanamo in such a short time without having any plans for what to do afterward. Remind you of some war that was started in the past decade? And you guys say he isn't like Bush at all? :) I still find it funny how every time he does something stupid or miscalculates something, he blames it on the Bush administration. "Uh, I am putting more troops into Afghanistan, because, uh, uh, uh, uh, you know that uh Bush uh administration uh made me, uh uh."