Too bad that doesn't translate to being a good president. On one hand, he complains about deficit spending of the previous president. Now that he's in office, he's yet to submit a budget that has less deficit spending than the deficit spending he criticized.
I hope he's more honest with his family than he has been with the American public for their sake.
I hope he has plenty of time to be a good family man come January 20, 2013 by not being distracted by holding the office of the president.
Of course, I'm not sure any of the Republican choices are any better. I think it's time to keep giving them and members of Congress, both the House and the Senate one term to get things done and if they don't, vote them out until they all realize they work for us and not their respective special interests.
There are interests on both the left and the right and few of them are actually in the best interests of the nation.
It's time to shrink the federal portion of Government by about 2/3rds, getting down to just national defense, foreign policy and the federal judiciary.
If folks want entitlements such as corporate welfare, individual welfare, social security and medicare/medicaid, they can do it on the state level.
If they don't, they can not do it.
But doing most of that stuff in DC is just insane.
Bring it back to the states and let people decide if they want to live in the nanny states, or the states where you are responsible for paying your own bills, insuring your family, etc.
Nothing wrong with helping out if that's how you want to do it.
There is something seriously wrong with saying everyone should help out and have zero say regarding any requirements, accountability or other strings that may be placed on the recipients of aid.
Barack Obama seems to be a good family man, a loving husband and caring father.