FSA- McCain represents, to me, four more years of the same failed policy that has landed in a costly, unneccesary war that has set us at the brink of a depression and sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths. For nothing. Okay? For nothing. Bush has endorsed this guy. Now, maybe there are rules about politics and parties and some such, but how on Earth has he not renounced that endorsement? McCain doesn't seem to mind that we're in Iraq in the first place. How can he talk economic policy and strategize about bringing us away from a recession when he's fine with pouring money down the drain for the forseeable future?
What do I want? I want us out of Iraq. I don't want us in Iran. Obama, if he lives up to what he says he is, represents a shift towards the government actually caring about the people, and not horrid, bloodthirsty corporations or government-sanctioned kidnappings or 1984-esque surveillance schemes. And if that's not how it plays out, well, then I guess there was nothing to hope for to begin with.
Edit- Though from my posts here and over in CE over the years, I'm surprised you needed to ask