Election 08

Here's the thing I do not get. The election is over and the way people are reacting to it makes not sense to me. I me not the great joy that of those who feel like their side won, but the ridiculous beliefs of those who's side didn't. I mean I understand being upset, but some people are literally acting like Obama is the anti-Christ come to reek havoc on all those in America. This makes me wonder where people get their information from, and how different their America seems to be from the won I live in. Where this imagine principle of everything they ever worked for in life being destroyed.
Now being honest I have been none to happy with the current President for the last eight years. I think him, and his administration have made many many mistakes. I do not think that he has ruined us as a country. However I don't think that one man can ruin a whole country. I mean the president can not take anything of value away from an individual. It seems to me that people are making the power of one man being President into a dictatorship. In fact I've heard people say those words with regard to Obama. I no longer believe so strongly in red states and blue states. But is it worse almost than that in that we have red people and blue people, who are so far to one side that they can't see how much each side has in common. I am confused and sadden by the reactions of even those close to me. I ask you was I not the same person I was before election day? Am I not the same person you loved and respected then?
Now don't get me wrong I'm having a lot of trouble with the "yes we did" faction of this whole game too. As the "yes we can" statement is a statement of the change we as Americans have the power to make. All we did was elect a President for the new year, there has been no change yet. The man himself is saying that we have a long road ahead of us. Essentially we have changed nothing yet. What I have to say to those who think we have, is do not be so lazy as to think that the only part you play in change is the election of a new president. Because Obama's speech on election night sounded to me like it ran clear with the idea of one former president. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Now if people manage to get off the couch and start being the change they believe in then you can say "yes we did"