"Message"?  What "message"?  A hardliner will always be a hardliner, and that's from "both" extremes.  Call me a pessimist, but some folks are so hardwired into a narrow mindset that they can't give an inch to whatever doesn't agree with them.

Some pro-Obama folks won't concede that McCain isn't an awful man.  I might not have voted for him, but his concession speech was moving and articulate, and probably one of the most genuine things he's said of late.  And he did correct his supporters who called Obama a "terrorist", saying that Obama is a good, honest family man who just has different opinions from him.  Sure, he did some things that I can't agree with, but McCain is a good man whose direction I didn't agree with and whose judgement I came to question, that's all.

And some anti-Obama friends of mine have gone completely overboard.  Out of everyone that I work with, I'm the only one who voted for Obama, but almost everyone is taking it well.  While I was discussing the election with my boss, a co-worker of mine (very far right) came up and stated that Obama had "better wear kevlar" because she has "military and ex-military friends who are snipers".  WTF?  That's seriously f!#$ed up. 

I'm ready to ditch the extremes . . . .  I'm hoping (not holding my breath, but I'll wait and see) both Obama and McCain are good on their word to work together to fix the mess we're all in.