The American population seems to be psychysophrenic in the way that they voted this year. For instance voters in California voted for Obama but also for banning gay marriages. While in Missouri, voters were even about who they wanted for president, but voted by a large percentage to ban gays from adopting children. Although Obama wants to unite the American people, a large segment of the American poplulation fears others who are somehow different from them. I believe that this is residue from the politics of fear that started in the nineties and continued during the second Bush administration. This politics of fear makes the American people want to return to the good old days of the fifties. But during the fifities a lot of civil rights were taken away and now seemed to imperil again with the current discrimination against gays. Obama must tell the American people that it is not just up to him to unite the country, but also for Americans must abandon their personal hatred themselves. To get Americans to overcome their fear and embrace the humanity of everyone maybe tougher than fixing the economy.

P.S. I'm not gay, but just sick of fear factor politics.