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• Monday, November 24, 2008 02:25 PM

  Stand Up and be Team Players

  It was November 4 in a small New Hampshire town, and I was part of a group of Obama volunteers at the polling site recording information. We were all committed Obama supporters, had worked for weeks for this day, and although the final outcome was still hours away, we still felt optimistic. At the same time, we knew November 5 was going to be a whole new landscape.

  I remember being part of the "what are we going to do with ourselves" conversation, and one of the things I proffered was just his type of situation. As soon as Obama won, people would begin to rip into him -- even his supporters. My suggestion then, and now, is the same.

  We have HUGE problems, problems that are going to haunt our children. I supported Barack Obama because I saw what he was capable of doing -- he came from nothing, with no money and no name recognition, and ended up besting the Clintons and then the Conservatives. And he did it with an amazing organization and disciplined, cool leadership.

  I suggest that we do what adults are expected to do. We nominated a leader and we expect him to lead, and we don't have the right to question his leadership until things really begin to fall apart. And so far, Obama has done admirably. I, for one, am content to sit back and let him do his thing -- he's done just fine up until now. Better than fine, in fact.

  Our job, as I see it, is to answer his challenge to pull on the rope which is going to drag US ALL out of this pit. We need to focus on that, pulling, supporting, being cheerleaders for those who lose faith (and it saddens me that my prediction has come to be, but I know human nature). Obama has chosen experts in whom he has faith, and just as he navigated the shoals of the campaign with such skill and confidence, I believe he will act as President in the same way. We need to allow him the space to lead, unfettered, without joining in the empty cacophony from the pundits and talking heads and poor team members among us.

  I trust that just as he won the presidency, he will win for America.

  —Exotikat Read Exotikat's other letters
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