Monday at a D.C. town-hall session, an "exhausted" Obama supporter, Velma Hart, the CFO of AMVETS, told the president she was "deeply disappointed" in him.

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Velma Hart stole the show from the president Tuesday during his economic town hall in Washington, D.C. "I've been told that I voted for a man who said he's going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class," Hart said during the meeting, broadcast on CNBC. "I'm one of those people, and I'm waiting, sir. I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet." Hart said her family feels their middle-class lifestyle sliding away as they sink back toward the "hot dogs and beans" era of her life. "I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now," Hart said. Hart is the chief financial officer of AMVETS, a veterans' organization, and her husband is a facilities administrator at the Verizon Center in Washington. They have two kids in private school. Obama responded that times are tough for everyone, and that he understood Hart's frustration. He called her the "bedrock of America," saying, "The life you describe, one of responsibility, looking after your family, contributing back to your community--that's what we want to reward." But Hart said Obama didn't answer her most troubling question: whether this economy is "the new reality."