An American President?

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My oh my, has America changed during my lifetime.  I'm sure all of you can say the same.  You've seen it, but perhaps not in the way that I have.  America surely is a better place than what it was when I came to be, and I want it to be even better I cease to be.  But, somehow I don't believe that it will.

America, from what I've come to know, was built on Christianity, family values, hard work, perseverance, and ethics. And for me, it seems we have devalued those things.  We've come to accept lying, corruption, drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, adultery, gays and lesbians, and most every value of life that I know.

Perhaps I was sheltered in some way, but while I was growing up, I never knew anyone that did not have both a mother and a father at home.  No interracial marriages.  I never knew anyone that served in prison, or used narcotics, or had sex with another of the same, or physically hurt anyone beyond throwing a snowball or having a fight after school fight.  Everyone I knew had jobs, graduated from high school and went off to work, college, or the military. I never heard of an Illegal Alien, or a Muslim and the word "terrorist" was outside my vocabulary when I was growing up.  My oh my.

I have to wonder what kind of American could Obama be.  We seem so far apart.  Worlds apart in so many ways.  One who did not have a stable adolescence.  Likely born outside America, in a region so different from America, where Islam reigns. And the child of an interracial marriage.  A marriage torn by divorce and the pairing of his father with four other women, building a family that Obama, aside from his mother, never knew.  And then in his latter years, coming to America where he aligned himself with anarchists, radical preachers, the suburbs of Chicago and convicted terrorists.  My oh my.

I have to wonder, with a background so different from any other American president during my lifetime, how Obama could love America as I do.  Why would I expect him to have the same values as I have after having such a different uobringing that I?  How could he be supportive of our military when he has never served?  How could he understand American capitalism when he has never worked?  How can he love America when his own wife has denounced it?  How can he take a strong stance against America's enemies when he was raised in those regions and most of his family are still there?  Why would I expect Obama to have ethics when has was raised where ethics do not exist?  Why would I expect the Truth from him?  Why would I expect him not to be a racist?

Well, I do expect him to have integrity to the American people.  Is that too much?  Or should I just join the rest of you and accept what he is?  My oh my.
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