"The Audacity of Hope"

So Obama's most recent book (which I hope to read very soon) has a perfectly fine subtitle: "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". But the main title, "The Audacity of Hope", is just stupid. Hope, given its very nature, can very reasonably and coherently be had on the slimmest of bases. So, as far as I can tell, there is no such thing as audacious hope. Perhaps audacious belief, but not audacious hope. (Even audacious belief is quite a stretch since, although there are lots of things that need a hell of a lot of improvement, current circumstances are not so extremely terrible that belief in future possibilities would count as audacious.) Now, if the main title had been "Audacious Confidence In Myself As the Savior of America", then the "audacious" part would have been perfectly appropriate (and, as an added bonus, it would've shown that he had some balls).


ADDED 9/17/08:

First, I should clarify. What I think (for the reasons explained above) is that the title itself, more or less in terms of CONTENT, is stupid. I am by no means claiming that Obama's CHOOSING this as a title was stupid; in fact, it was probably politically savvy and inspired some. (See the important distinction drawn in "the target of my various claims" under "basics".)

Second, I am in no way claiming that having a book with a stupid title CONTENT-wise (or even being someone who made a stupid CHOICE of a book title) is by itself evidence that the person in question would not be a good president (or is not a respectable individual, etc.).