He IS better than I thought, and I thought he was great. After 30 years of starving the beast, and having the American public get used to living in a second class state (just go visit Japan or , yes, France), while our government, uncaring, inept, incompetent (hello Katrina) and asleep at the switch, allowed roads to fall apart (see Minneapolis; or any interstate in California), health care to deteriorate to third world status(if you're wealthy enough to afford,it, or have good health insurance, its great, but have you visited an emergency room lately? or for comparison, Japan or France? You do see 3rd world dictators coming here for health care; you don't see people from Japan or France coming here...and if you, like me, run a small business and have to see the choices offered by health insurance companies, and the rising costs (13% last year, only 7% this year) of that worsening service, well, its worse than I ever thought it would be...). What, have you been hiding somewhere - what evidence don't you see that this country needs a new direction desperately - which is why this guy won! I love watching John Kyl try to switch the subject from his own $118,000,000 of earmarks to socialism - but obviously those guys are finished - about time! We kept saying throw the bums out, and geez, we finally did it. We did it! And now we've got someone that can get us going again ,and we hear the same old shibboleths of the right - socialism! (From the party that spent us into oblivion on nothing while fighting a war (unprecedented) and giving back a surplus to the rich (and hey, I'm one of those guys). I'm looking around for those same republicans who kept carping that it wasn't patriotic if an American didn't support his president in a time of war - and what I'm hearing is , they hope their president fails! (He is OUR president after all). So yeah, I voted "better than I thought" in this pole - but actually he's doing what I hoped and expected he would, and what he ran on. I'm readuy to make my country stronger, give my kids and yours a better future, and I'm willing to sacrifice in paying more taxes to do it - what about you? Are you willing to be a patriot and support your president and your country in their time of need? Or do you want to carp about socialism....