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The Associated Pressto be a rough four years.
Harry White
Scarborough
After many months, the election is finally over, with both sides having fervently expressed their views.
Unfortunately, near the end of the campaign, the McCain-Palin advisers decided mudslinging should be the order of the day. They seemed oblivious to the fact that the majority of voters were homing in on honesty and integrity in this campaign.
This "same-old same-old" is no longer an accepted axiom in American politics. Except for a few hard-nosed party-liners, the usual number of Southern racists and a surprising number of Maine racists, the sleaze factor was becoming a non-entity.
Barack Obama won because a majority of people voted for him as one of us and not because of the hue of his skin. The racially prejudiced certainly voted against him for this reason. Racists and malcontents will always be among us.
Some are up front with their warped harangues, while others crawl from under rocks to spew their venom and then return to their holes.
The majority of Americans feels that racial intolerance is not acceptable. The tens of thousands of Americans of every race, creed and color celebrating Obama's victory in Chicago on election night made this very clear.
It was a scene of joy and admiration for a man who was one of us and who made us all proud to be Americans.
Bob Roffler
North Yarmouth
If there is a modicum of truth in letter writer Karen Libby's "fact" that Bill Ayers helped launch Barack Obama's political career ("Many things said about Obama," Nov. 25), all of us should send Ayers a thank-you note.
Robert E. Marsh
Sanford
