Obama is setting America's standards high because he wants to change the ones we are in now & follow up to those expectations. I voted for him (not because he is half black & I'm black) but because he is seeing that we are tired of hope.
Bush has trialed us with that hope stuff at 9/11 in catching Osama Bin Laden, the oil & gasoline policy speech he spoke of, & a couple other accounts (Hurricane Katrina) we as Americans were looking for Bush to hold us up on. Not saying he was a FAIL President, it's just he grew that populace of Americans loathing him because of him instilling hope behind his expectations to fall through with his promises.
Obama knows the hope isn't what the US needs right now. He's looking further into the future & current utmost matters. Stabalizing our economy (#1), trying to get us out of this war (I'm in the National Guard so I'm going to do my part for this country anyhow), foundating new jobs for the next generation (For my son & daughter so that's a plus), stop trying to stick our noses in other countries affairs & focus on US, and most other things that all of us (as Americans) are going to have to come to think of & act about.
Obama is looking straight in the direction I'm focused on so, his morales/expectations/standards for us checks out in my book.
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