I voted for Obama because after reading his books I knew that he was not the most liberal Senator in the Senate. He had a strong appreciation for the strengths of capitalism and he also knew it had some weaknesses. Some liberals don’t adequately recognize the strengths. I was pretty sure and have been proven right that Obama was not one of those.

He actually had quite a bit of political experience in Illinois before coming to the Senate. I admired the managerial talent that he demonstrated in the way he ran his campaign.

There was nothing in his life that was shrouded in mystery. Everything the wingos asked for him to open up, he did. The fact that they would not accept yes for an answer did not phase me.

When the press started attacking Reverend Wright, I listened to all the sermons in question in their entirety. I also watched his entire appearance at the National Press Club. I watched interviews he did with Bill Moyers. All these videos are posted on my blog. (See also Rev Jeremiah Wright Speaks Again/) I came to realize that the press was lying through its teeth. You’d think they could correctly report on an appearance before the National Press Club, but they couldn’t even get that right. If they had got it right, they would have had to report that Rev. Wright made fools out of them.

There are people who repeatedly misinterpret my point of view even after I expressly describe what my point of view is. I cannot help that. I can only continue to explain my own point of view.

I do know that it is dangerous to assume that you know someone else’s point of view.

Someone reminded me of the old saw that Winston Churchill said, ‘If you’re young and not liberal you have no heart, when you’re older and not conservative, you have no brains.’ There is a reason why the voters in the UK eventually threw Winston Churchill out of office. Perhaps he couldn’t transition from war Prime Minister to post war Prime Minister.

It happens all the time. For instance there are many company founders that cannot adequately manage the company they founded after it has grown too large or the technology has advanced past their original invention.

Another reason why I chose to vote for President Obama is his understanding that the reasons for his policies needed constant explanation for him to get elected and for him to get them passed by Congress.

One of the problems with the Democrats who had been in power almost uninterrupted since Roosevelt got elected was that they assumed the electorate understood why they did what they did.

What they forgot was that what the electorate finally understood in 1932 could not be assumed to be understood in 1980 and beyond. Most of the 1932 electorate had been replaced with younger people by the time 1980 rolled around. Even had that not happened, people had been bombarded by the story from the other side for 50 years with diminished response from the Democrats. On top of that circumstances had changed considerably since 1932.

I think that Bill Clinton may have been the first Democrat to have an inkling of what was needed. Certainly Al Gore didn’t have Clinton’s knowledge about how to get elected or maybe it was Clinton’s instinct that Gore lacked.

It was clear that in the 2008 election, Obama had more than figured out what needed to be done. It was also clear to me that Hilary Clinton had not figured it out.

Proof that Obama knew he needed the troops to help him after he got elected was the transition of his campaign organization into Organizing For America. The same great internet social network that he had organized for the campaign is still hard at work. Now that he has brought David Plouffe back to work, it is starting to really fire on all cylinders.

It took the wake up call of his struggle over health care to make all concerned realize that it was time to kick things into high gear. This included the troops remotivating themselves.

By the way, it was clear to me in the Democratic primary for Senator that Martha Coakley did not have a clue about what it was going to take to get elected. She also didn’t recognize the value of Obama’s style of not going negative.

Mike Capuano hadn’t thought it through as completely as Obama had, but he had some of the understanding instinctively. He would have made a much better candidate.

Martha Coakley didn’t even know how much trouble she was in. The Obama organization and its troops had to ride to the rescue in the last few days of the campaign, but it was far too late. We did manage to change the result from a completely embarrassing route by Scott Brown to a merely a respectable loss.