Perhaps, your post highlights a major difference between us, and why I found it difficult to support Obama, and especially, doing so over McCain. I look at and judge people based on the totality of their actions, not based on one or two comments that they might make, but that don't coincide with the history of their actions. Talk is cheap, but actions reveal the character of a person.

Borredo has a long history here of posting anti-McCain and anti-Palin rhetoric, and with venom and vitriol. And just yesterday, he posted this:

"Half the country are going to wake up Wednesday and are going to carry a grudge for the next four years. Looking for the elected president to fail. That the change we need, we all got to pull together. Unlike what has been happening."

That was the basis for my comment, as that is much more in keeping with totality of Borredo's commentary. Furthermore, borredo posted this:

"I sense that both will do the best they can. I think both Obama and McCain are good people."

That comment flies in the face of the totality of his postings and expressions. He defamed and denigrated both McCain and Palin ad nauseum over the last few months, and unjustly so. So if he feels as he did in this post, then he's an insincere hypocrite with his prior posting. If he feels as he has projected through the totality of his posting, then his comments yesterday and today are lies.

I don't know borredo, and can only judge him based on his posts, and to be as fair as I can, I have to consider all of his posts, not just cherry picked ones. Same goes for Obama. I don't know him. I can only judge him based on his overall body of work, and his past actions. I wish him well, and hope that his unifying rhetoric and the less radical aspects of his rhetoric prove to be the direction that his future actions take. In his history of actions, that hasn't typically proven to be the case when you look at his record aside from his campaign. Since he's never been in the position of President before, I'm hoping the enormity and gravity of that situation, allows him to rise above his prior actions, and that it pushes him to meet the better parts of his rhetoric. Making that challenge more difficult for him (if he is to accomplish what I hope) is that he'll be battling the desires and impulses of an aspect of his party in Pelosi and Reid that has been emoboldened through the election.