All I want for Christmas is the best President of the United States of my lifetime. I am pretty sure Barack Obama will still be in office tomorrow, so it will indeed be a very Happy Holiday!
Why do I consider President Obama to be the best President since I was born in 1961? Let me count the ways.
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Barack Obama is nearly exactly my age. His early years mirror my own. I relate completely to his outlook on life, and I am confident that he relates to mine. JFK may have been the first "psychedelic president", but Barack Obama is the first president who grew up during the sixties. His mind seems open to the collective consciousness as much as any politician I have seen, and that collective consciousness has been expanded greatly over the past four decades. He is a man of the times.
Barack Obama is a winner. If electoral politics is a sport, he is one of the greatest underdog champions of all time. He absolutely DESTROYED the competition while carrying one of the biggest handicaps ever in the pigment of his skin. I am proud to say he is the only candidate besides Jimmy Carter that I ever campaigned seriously for, and I am confident he will not make the same mistakes Jimmy Carter made.
Barack Obama loves his wife and he is not afraid to show it. I think if I had to pick one thing about this president that I appreciate above all others, it would be his love life. Makes me damn proud to be a happily married man.
Barack Obama did more for the mood of the black community than anyone I can remember. I live and teach in Miami, and I have personally experienced actual race riots. There is a palpable change in the air here, and I bet it reaches every corner of America.
Barack Obama inspires me to keep working on political issues that I care about. If anyone else had won the last election, I would have tuned back out as soon as it was over. That is proof of my shallow commitment, but it is the truth. There is something about his intelligence, his charisma, his very being that still gives me Hope long after the posters have been torn down and the detractors are flinging poo from both sides of the extremist fringe. He makes me care enough to stay connected and keep on toiling.
On Christmas Eve, here on the Great Orange Satan that we call our political home, in my humble opinion, we could not ask for a better gift.
Barack Obama, the best President of the United States of my lifetime.