Obama raises his own bar "higher, higher"

What a delightful thing to behold an American President speaking in complete sentences and articulate thoughts for adult Americans.

Whatever your opinion of Obama's policies there was never any question that he was speaking honestly from his heart.

I admire  ambitious goal setting, but even the author of the Audacity of Hope may find himself in a couple years have his accomplishments compared to YouTube snippets from February 09.

If I got this right Americans will cure cancer, have the highest graduation rate, save American automakers, reform health care, give every American making less than 250 a tax cut and, oh ya, cut the deficit in half in four years.

Whew, I'm exhausted just repeating that.

In the some things never change department Republicans revealed a month long amnesia attack as to who had been the party of spending for the last eight years.

The governor of Louisiana, while interesting by heritage, seemed in disconnect land eschewing government spending in the state that received the most emergency spending, however badly managed.

I'm just hoping the Bush words Obama has to eat aren't W's, "mission accomplished "  but 41's , "read my lips no new taxes."

Taxing thoughts indeed, but for sheer fright  think of John McCain standing there with Sarah Palin sitting  behind him next to Grandma Pelosi.

Me, I'll take the audacity any day.