Thank you Mr President

As we near the home straight of the Presidential elections, someone somewhere has sought to illustrate Barack Obama's last fours years in pictures and just a few words.

It is compelling as it is moving. Moreover, in a world in which the word hero is overused, with recipients rising and falling even before the newspaper ink is dry, we are in danger of overlooking those real heroes who are quietly, inexorably making us better people, and thus a better world.

Operation Black Vote normally non partisan has never been more partisan in regards to President Barack Obama. And for those who care our reasoning goes way beyond race.

Simon Woolley

Thank you Mr President for ...

The "room-lighting" smile:

For the mind that always thinks:

For preventing a second Great Depression:

For the humor:

For bringing the number of women in the Supreme Court to 3:

For making the White House the "people's" house:

For 1.1 million jobs created in 2010 alone, more than the entire 8 years of George W. Bush:

For the love of people:

For the love of family:

For  America 's First Lady:

For leaving the past behind:

For the world having respect for America , again:

For quietly and calmly dealing with crisis after crisis, after crisis, after crisis, even if not being responsible for any of them:

For being so "cool":

For being fierce - when need be:

For having the sense to not let it destroy you:

For the capacity to be compassionate:

For being an inspiration to so many:

For saving the auto industry and at least 1.4 million jobs:

For loving the troops:

For understanding the horrible price of war:

For bringing 100,000 men and women back from Iraq :

For facing the most difficult and loneliest job in the world with grace, dignity, honesty and guts in spite of so many "Haters":

For being, in spite of, all the hate, pettiness, racism, corruption and immaturity around, the most progressive.  And "for the people" president in decades and simply for this:

For Being...................."MR. PRESIDENT"