Presidents are not heroes.
Even the best of them—the brave, the wise—are leaders, not heroes. They are not here to save us, from ourselves or anyone else, but to guide us through the present and into the future with an open heart and an open mind and with malice toward none.
President Barack Obama is not a hero. President Barack Obama will not save us.
President Barack Obama is a leader.
There are things I like about his presidency and things I don’t, and I doubt that the things I don’t like—the continued drug war, the unilateral and heavy use of drones, the timidity on global warming, among others—will change much in a second term.
But the things I like—his efforts to use the state for rather than against the vulnerable, the concrete recognition of the rights of women to control their (our) own sexuality and for queer folk not to be punished for their (our) sexuality, good Supreme Court picks, his measured approach to international affairs—point the way toward a future which just might be better than it would otherwise be.
April 14, 2010. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Barack Obama, 2012.
AbsurdBeats 
I take it this is the endorsement we’ve been patiently waiting for?
whew