Swallowed your pride?  Why on earth would a Harvard educated lawyer, law professor, US Senator, community activist, and loving father, husband and son, give you cause to swallow your pride?  Can you be so very proud of the man who has 5 children by 3 wives and denigrates all who disagree with him on a daily basis through childish tweets and smirks?  The man who stiffed his employees?  Who declared bankruptcy multiple times?  I'm more proud of President Obama than any other president I've lived through, and I first voted in 1972.  I can only think of one reason why your pride would be challenged in any way.  And your memory seems very selective in not recalling the "uncivilized resistance gatherings" where Obama's likeness was hung from trees and burned in effigy.  And your assertion that conservatives acknowledged his election?  Oh yes, to the exact moment when they vowed to obstruct every single idea he had and to make him a one-term president?  All is not forgotten nor forgiven.