THE ISSUE: Whether Obama got the message from Democratic losses in Tuesday’s elections.

* For one of the few times, I respectfully disagree with The Post’s headline that President Obama was humbled by the slaughtering the Democrats took Tuesday (“Humbled,” Nov. 4).

Obama is a left-wing, liberal elitist who feels he is much more intelligent than the rest of us and that anybody who disagrees with his policies just doesn’t know better.

This is the typical liberal way, and the country showed the president that nobody is taking it anymore.

Christopher Bisignano

Staten Island

* Obama’s failure to offer a genuine mea culpa for the economic catastrophe he and his party created speaks volumes about his elitist nature and his general disdain for grassroots Americans.

Like most Democrats in power, Obama smugly believes that Americans are like children who should be seen but not heard.

If he fails to heed the lessons of this election, however, it will be Obama who will end up on the outside looking in.

Gerald Jacobs

Staten Island

* After Obama cost the Democrats 61 House seats, can he bounce back, given his pretentious Chicago flair and sense of superiority?

The seats are one thing, but what about the trillions of dollars that floated away when he and Congress borrowed from the likes of China? And we thought Bernie Madoff, who bled his friends and other suckers, was bad.

Americans made a blunder that will haunt them for eons, and Obama says, “my fault.”

I believe that Rahm Emanuel flew the coop because he sensed a Democratic hurricane of disgrace. Oh, that Chicago flair.

Richard Homer Bucco

Bloomfield, N.J.

* Now that Obama has been humbled (although I don’t believe he has an ounce of humility in his entire body), perhaps it is time for him to stop being a “dude” and try to become a president who will listen to what’s on the minds and in the hearts of the American people.

Since this is never going to happen, maybe now is the time for the GOP to start thinking about getting its own “dude” to run for president in 2012.

Dan Clemens

Marlboro, N.J.

* Voters expressed frustration, but it was more an anti-incumbent wave than a Republican one, as many good, long-term public servants were kicked out.

The lesson the president learned is that he needed to be more pro-active regarding jobs. People wouldn’t have cared as much about the historic health-care bill or the stimulus if we had full employment, or were at least headed in that direction.

We are left with many Americans concerned about the deficit, yet they want to protect Social Security and Medicare, two key areas that lead to deficits.

We can say we are frustrated to the point of confusion.

David DiBello

Brooklyn

* In George Will’s “They Still Don’t Get It,” (PostOpinion, Nov. 4) he compares ObamaCare’s coercions to “benevolent parental discipline.”

This also fits perfectly with Obama’s God complex.

When we try to see the justice in evil or suffering, we are told the same thing that Obama tries to sell the American public about his policies: Our limited mortal minds are not capable of seeing the big picture or understanding the complexity of God’s plans.

F. Schwartz

Brooklyn