After listening carefully to President-elect Obama for two years, as a former lifelong Republican, I can say I am comfortable that he will lead competently from the center. I am disappointed that he had to make a backroom deal with the Clintons for Sec State and I think Holder is a weak choice but I am happy with everything else I have seen and heard about him and his plans.It is time to drop partisan politics and get behind Obama and pray for his success and the survival of the United states.