Obama says farewell, but some on Delmarva are ready to see him leave

President Obama was thankful Tuesday night giving his farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago, but 800 miles away in Salisbury some are thankful he'll soon be out the door.

"Yeah, I'm glad he's leaving," said Brenna Brittingham.

"(I'm) happy to see him," said Joe Agear. "I just didn't agree with his policies."

During his speech Obama said he knew that not everyone saw eye-to-eye with him during his time in office, but he said that's what made him a better president and even more so, a better man.

The president also spoke on what the country has accomplished over the past eight years. Obama touching on the fact that during his time in office we've seen a reverse to the great recession, had the longest stretch of job creation in our history and achieved health insurance for another 20 million citizens among other things.

For all those achievements, he didn't thank himself, he thanked the American people.
"You were the change. You answered people's hopes, and because of you, by almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than it was when we started," Obama said.

It was moments like that and his heart-felt thank you to his wife and daughter that had locals like Van Stewart still smiling a day later and hoping, although unrealistic, for four more years.

"I think his speech was great he went out with a lot of dignity and for the last eight years he had a lot of controversy ahead of him, but he always kept it how can I say… professional," Stewart said.