George, it is blatantly obvious that you fall right into the category I mentioned previously. The category of those who clearly do not realize the massive undertaking that is attempting to pull one of the largest countries in the world out of an economic recession. I will personally guarantee you that neither you, nor John McCain, nor Sarah Palin could do any better in the allotted amount of time. When I vote, I do not vote with the idea that the politician I vote for is going to fix all the problems he promises to fix, cure all the diseases he promises to cure, or ban all the things he promises to ban; I vote for a politician that is going to screw up (in my opinion) the least. When I was presented with Barack Obama or John McCain, the choice was BLINDINGLY obvious as to which one would get my vote. We just got out of the worst presidential term in history (that's fact, not opinion). Now, if John McCain voted in AGREEMENT with the man who just suffered the worst presidential term in history over 90% of the time, WHY ON EARTH would I vote for him? WHY ON EARTH would I vote for 8 more years of the same right wing, ignorant, "bestest in the whole wide world and we don't care what anyone else says" attitude?
I digress. Like mmarsh said, show me where Obama has been the ultimate Lefty politician trying to take the country in a direction it doesn't want to go...
(By the way, please remember that Obama didn't change his campaign promises once he was elected, so clearly SOME of the country wanted to go there. Enough to get him elected POTUS, anyway.)