Hope

I really don't understand the people who look at a politician who talks about "hope," and feel reassurance. To me hope should be left in the sphere of personal dealings, not serious things like politics, where you hope people use there intellect and not their emotions to determine who is the best candidate (but I know that for the most part it is all about how the candidate makes them feel).

Hope seems like a pretty ridiculous thing to invest in. From personal experience, hope rarely pans out, it's something one clings to as a last resort. So I find it kind of nauseating that rational, smart people talk about hope like it's something tangible, something they can take as proof of someone's qualifications.