44

I was tagged by my friend Carl for a project that goes like this:

*each blogger posts 44 things about the 44th President of the USA

*somewhere in the post, the tag #44:44 is included, so all the posts are more easily tracked

*each blogger then tags 4 other bloggers to invite them to post their own 44 things about the 44th President on their blog

Here are mine:

1. He is 47 years old

2. He is not too young to be President

3. He is African-American

4. He is white

5. He is Hawaiian

6. He is Indonesian

7. He is L.A.

7. He is New York

8. He is Chicago

9. He is Harvard

10. He is Illinois

11. He is shaped by his history, but not defined by it

12. He is a Senator

13. He is an author

14. He can do two things at once

15. He is a father

16. He is a son

17. He is a husband

18. He knows what matters

19. He is an American

20. He is a Christian

21. He understands these words don't mean the same thing

22. He understands the complexities of trying to be both

23. He is a former drug user

24. He is open about that fact

25. He calls that his greatest moral failure

26. He understands that past failures don't define us if we're willing to change

27. He likes change

28. He makes change

29. He calls us to make change

30. He calls us to make sacrifices

31. He makes decisions

32. He does not always make the right decisions

33. He will not always make the right decisions

34. He knows this

35. He does not expect us to always agree with him

36. He does not want us to always agree with him

37. We will not always agree with him

38. He is not a communist

39. He is not a socialist

40. He encourages us to share

41. He encourages us to hope

42. He is not our hope 

43. He is not the anti-Christ

44. He is not Jesus Christ

I tag: Joe Hays, Jason Middlekauff, Dean Smith, and Julie Clawson