Ironic AP Headline: 'Hope' And 'Change' Aren't Enough To Inspire Voters
I don't know about you, but I found the following headline from the Associated Press rather ironic:
Obama 2012 Reelection Campaign: 'Hope' And 'Change' Aren't Enough To Inspire Voters
Jim Kuhnhenn began his piece (emphasis added):
As he weighed a presidential run back in 2006, President Barack Obama displayed a realistic sense of self-awareness: All the adulation he was receiving, he conceded then, was because he was a blank slate on which people could attach their aspirations.
As he seeks re-election, his self-awareness is on display again, with a new conclusion.
"It's not as cool to be an Obama supporter as it was in 2008, with the posters and all of that stuff," he acknowledged to an intimate gathering of donors in Miami this week.
It's a line he delivered with a chuckle, a variation on a theme that he is using with his base of supporters. But it holds an important truth for the Obama campaign: Obama is now a known quantity and he will not inspire voters this election the same way he did in the previous one.
Well, Jim, how much was this "blank slate" due to the miserable job virtually every so-called news outlet in America including yours did in properly vetting the junior senator from Illinois after he first announced his candidacy in February 2007?
Have you ever wondered why Hope and Change was almost all this man had to say to get elected to the highest office in the land?
Maybe if press members such as yourself would have spent their time digging into his background - ahem, kind of like you did going through 24,000 of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's email messages last week - he wouldn't have been such a "blank slate."
If "Hope" and "Change" aren't enough to inspire voters in 2012, why did so-called news organizations ensure they were in 2008?
Politicians hire advisers to assist them in creating personas the public will buy into. It is supposed to be the job of so-called journalists to pierce this veil and tell the citizenry what candidates are really about so they can make informed decisions when they head to the polls.
Unfortunately, in the 21 months that followed Obama tossing his hat into the ring, the press totally abdicated its solemn responsibility to the public by not only refusing to properly investigate and report who this man from Chicago was, but also assisting him at every turn to captivate the electorate with nothing but smoke, mirrors, and empty promises about Hope and Change.
Thanks to a complicit news media, America in 2008 elected as president a man they likely knew less as about than any in this nation's history.
This raises a very important question as a new presidential campaign begins in earnest: the public might no longer be conned by Obama's pathetic platitudes, but have his adoring fans in the press come out from under the ether yet?
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2012 Slogan
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:19am.
His new slogan should be: "More Change - Less Hope".
→ But, By golly
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:32am.
You gotta' admit that administration is about as shovel-read as any we've ever seen.
My vote is just one shovel, but there are millions of us.
I'm not a bump in the road, and Chrysler sucks. Now, get back in that Wrangler and head on back to Chicago, continuing to do the many great things you've done for that city.
I "Hope" that the same people who supported
Submitted by johnsonl on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:25am.
Obamao in 2008 are rethinking their support. People need jobs, not hope and change. Paychecks, not food stamps!
going down with the ship
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:29am.
The media will not abandon obama. They identify with him. They also have a lot of professional investment in him. Do you think they really care about the deficit or unemployment more than their loyalty to what obama represents? After all, could they support a Republican instead? No chance. They are like the band on the Titanic that will keep playing as the ship sinks.
Another 2012 slogan
Submitted by CarlosS on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:32am.
"brother, I hope you can spare some change"
The Change: Devalued dollar,
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:31am.
The Change: Devalued dollar, decline of American Power, disdain towards America from others, the destruction of American oil and gas industry, attack on business, increased debt into the trillions of dollars and last but not least, the betrayal of American Allies. This is the Obama change. Not all of it, just a few high lights.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
I HOPE the presidency is CHANGED
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:40am.
How about JOBS and the TRUTH instead?
This blank slate mea culpa 4 years after the fact is a crock o'poop.
A Flotilla headed to Alaska to vet a VP candidtate, not one penny was spent to fly to chi-town to ask anyone bleep there.
Except for those racists at Faux noise of course.
Hope and Change
Submitted by iveseenitall on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:45am.
I told you---Never,Never trust a "liberal" ( progressive). But millions did...
Now,to quote Herman Caine----"How's that workin' out for ya'?"
Never,Never trust a "liberal" (progressive) again
Exactly Right Noel, Obama Wasn't a Blank Slate in 2008
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:50am.
The big left media covered over Obama's Marxist past with a blank canvass that they peddled as a "blank slate." Anybody who bothered to take a look saw Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky... And heard old interviews of Obama wanting to subvert the constitution. And looked at his, albeit meager, voting record. Obama is a creature of the media. Much of the media will go down in flames with him unless they bail out soon.
On "hope" and "change"
Submitted by Gary Hall on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 11:01am.
Come 2012, I'm hoping for change.
(;~> gary
Hope is waning, and the
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 11:01am.
Hope is waning, and the change hasn't been for the better.
We've lost all hope and all
Submitted by Ruths husband Ben on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 11:18am.
We've lost all hope and all we have left is pocket change.
More
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 11:44am.
This Isn't the Change You Hoped For
O Changed Our Hope Into Fear
Hope You Got Some Change Left
Now, Change Is Our Only Hope
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Well, one of the most
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 12:03pm.
Well, one of the most truthful things that ever came out of O'Barry's big purple lips was that he was going to 'fundamentally change this country'.................and he sure as hell has followed up on that promise!!!
As for 'hope'..........it is not, and has never been, a viable strategy for anything - so anybody who believed that for a second was as delusional as the idiot spouting it!!!
Yep, I can see it now:
Submitted by 4eyes50 on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 12:14pm.
A few years in the not too distant future, I'll be siiting on the porch, talking with my great niece and nephew.
"I remember when gas used to cost 4 bucks a gallon - that was a deal in those days."
"Yeah, we studied about gas in school last year. You remember, uncle, they had to get rid of it 'cause it hurt the environment. Besides, don't you like Zelda and the buggy we bought for you?"
"Of course, dear, thank you. Now it only takes me a day to get into town to buy myself a $15 bottle of pop."
"But uncle, you remember they had to raise the tax on that to prevent diabetes. If you had laid off the stuff, you'd probably been eligible to receive the treatment." (They roll their eyes at each other.)
"Listen, uncle, it's getting late and we have to get to town and back before daybreak. We put some fresh newspaper down in your cardboard box - is there anything else we can get for you?"
"How 'bout a pack of smokes? I got my old person ration today, that should just about cover it."
They just walk away, leaving me alone to dream of the old days....
It could happen
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 12:31pm.
Oh hell, the frightening thing is that this could happen if we stay on the path that we are. Except it probably won't be dollars, it'll be some new currency because the dollar got taken off after losing its value almost totally. Kinda like the Greek Drachma.
-Jon
I wish somebody in the media would track down this idiot...
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 1:21pm.
...and ask her just exactly how well hope and change worked out for her.
When the government took over education all those decades ago, Peggy Joseph was exactly the sort of person they were looking to create.
Now we are a nation full of people just like her.
God help us.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hope and Change
Submitted by Vonu on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 1:50pm.
was not to inspire, but to sucker.
Try impeachment, that will
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 3:24pm.
Try impeachment, that will inspire the voters.
Answer To The Concluding Question Is ...
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 7:39pm.
... No Way In Hell. That's why Legacy Media is dead.
d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
It's only going to get worse between now and Nov. 2012
Submitted by big.league.slider on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 3:33am.
Obama is already unelectable 18 months ahead of the election. Before Nov. 2012, the economy is going to get much worse. There will be more political scandals, from Holder to Weiner to Waters to Melson, etc.
Goodbye Hope and Change. Hello President Perry.
Rick Perry has produced more private sector jobs in Texas alone without any stimulus, than Obama has nationally with over $1trillion in spending. All Rick Perry has to do to get elected president, is keep running ads comparing his results at job creation versus Obama's.
It will be a blow out of epic proportions.
"Hope and Change", indeed...
Submitted by Unsilent_Minority on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 8:20am.
...I, for one, definitely "hope" for "change" in this next election. And our nation's greatness, sovereignty, and solvency DEMAND it.