…So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.
President George W. Bush 2004 Post Election Victory Speech

Barack Obama would be wise to learn from the mistakes of President Bush and though there were many, in my opinion the greatest was moving to close to the middle and alienating his core support group on the right. In trying to be a President who ‘reached across the aisle’, it was never far enough to the left to sway Democrat support and worlds away from the right which pissed off Republicans.

2008 Presidential Election Results

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.
President Barack Obama 2008 Post Election Victory speech

At the dawn of Obama’s newly elected Presidency it will be important to gain support of all Washington leaders, but Obama must stay true to his word of ‘Change’ and this means staying to the left on his decisions. There are many reasons for President Bush’s low approval rating, but with over 55 million people voting Republican in 2008, this clearly indicates Bush lost support not because people turned Democrat, but because Republicans never felt supported by him as President. Obama will never make both parties happy, but he can’t risk mowing down the people who helped get him elected.

driver mows down bicycle riders

Obama must remain loyal to the Democratic Party, loyal to people like 106 year old Ann Louise Nixon Cooper whom Obama spoke eloquently about, even if this loyalty is viewed as playing hardball against the Republicans. This election was won through support of people like Ms. Nixon, herself an active community member in Atlanta, Cooper spent more than fifty years on the board of directors of the Gate City Nursery Association, but living up to the expectations of so many will cause Obama to spread himself to thin and fracture his support base.

106 year old Ann Louise Nixon Cooper Obama Speech 2008 Election

Obama need look no further than his own victory to realize change need not appeal to everyone to be considered in the best interest of the country. Barack Obama in many ways will find himself facing many of the same economic and global war time challenges that Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted in the 30’s and 40’s. FDR started his bid for Presidency in Chicago and Obama accepted his victory there as well, but let’s hope Barack doesn’t succumb to the stress the same way Roosevelt did during his Presidency.

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