What is fair?

President Obama please answer me.  What is fair?  You spend a lot of your time talking about fairness and why "the rich" should pay their "fair share." It seems juvenile.  Every time I hear you speaking about this, I can't help but feel like I'm back in junior high with all of it's pettiness and selfishness.  You appeal to the more negative instincts of human nature.  You are generating an election base focused on those attributes that I grew up being taught and believed were wrong; selfishness, envy, jealousy, and stealing.  They also are characteristics I taught my own children to avoid.  Instead I encouraged hard work, appreciation for success, patience, the value of education, to realize not everyone gets what they deserve, and some get, but don't deserve; the characteristics to deal with this fact and that life isn't fair; move on.  So, back to my question.  What is fair? Is it fair that a wife is losing her wonderful, hard-working, handsome husband of 30 years to cancer?  Is it fair that some children die in accidents and some live? How about when millions of people run out and buy lottery tickets hoping to cash in on the 600 million dollar pay out, only to lose; is that fair? It is disheartening to me to see my president base his entire re-election campaign on such triviality.  I believe it is not only damaging to our country as a whole, but also the relationships we try to form through daily life.  Promoting an attitude of rich against poor only gives permission to others to form barriers, walls and anger because they feel things aren't "fair." We should focus on the kinds of values and characteristics that uplift, encourage and make us better people.