Bob Schieffer Asks Obama Senior Adviser Gibbs 'Whatever Happened to Hope and Change?'
Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs certainly didn't expect this question when he agreed to go on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.
Right out of the gate host Bob Schieffer pressed his guest about all the negative ads the President's campaign is running until he finally asked, "Whatever happened to hope and change?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB SCHIEFFER: You know one of the refreshing changes when, when the President was elected, he talked about hope and change. Whatever happened to hope and change? Now, it seems he is just coming right out of the box with these old-fashioned negative ads that all campaigns seem to think are the basis of all campaigns now.
Granted this is an isolated incident, but isn't it refreshing to see a liberal media member like Schieffer actually ask one of the President's top advisers such a question?
Might we see more of this in the coming months, or was this the kind of honesty you only get on a long holiday weekend when very few people are anywhere near a television set?
On the other hand, if folks like Schieffer rather than buying into and disseminating candidate Obama's bogus hope and change mantra would have grilled the junior senator in 2008 about what his actual plan was as well as his qualifications for seeing it implemented, maybe the Face the Nation host wouldn't be asking this question today?
Hmmm.
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In Mao's little red book.
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:12pm.
In Mao's little red book.
Hopenchange...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:13pm.
"...mEt tHE oCcuPy WAl-mArT, er, wAlL StReEt pEePlz. ShoOm! PArteee oN mO-Fo! DON't BOgArT ThAT WEED DoOODe!"
"LEtz GoLf MaN..snIFF?!”
I would like to think that
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:20pm.
I would like to think that some of the LSM is starting to push back or question this administration but I think in this case Schieffer mixed up his questions sheet. He accidentally had the questions that are supposed to be put to Republicans/Conservatives in front of him.
LSM
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 6:30pm.
The only reason that the lsm is asking tough questions today is that it is a holiday weekend and no one is watching TV.
This way they can say that they were tough on O, and all the while it's so much kaka
I wonder what kind of answer
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:29pm.
I wonder what kind of answer ol' Bagdad Bob gave Schieffer - who just proved that his dementia isn't at 100% - yet.
And that whole 'hype and chains' thing was just shallow, vacuous crap anyway, along with 'yes we can' (yes we can what??? See how rapidly and thoroughly we can screw this country???)............and now we have the Marxist/Communist/Fascist redux of 'Forward'.....................except with these bass-akward guys, they're aiming in the wrong direction - purposly.
Hope aint a method.
Submitted by BD on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:28pm.
When I was a young Lieutenant being mentored by aging first sergeants all of whom were Vietnam Veterans, one of the key things they pounded into my headspace was "Hope AINT a method."
Anytime one of us in our tactical operations orders made the mistake of saying "Hopefully..." they would verbally smack us down.
1SG: "BD, how are you going to seize the objective across that river?"
BD: "Well, we will hopefully......"
And the sound coming out of them when the magic word came beyond our lips was not of this earth. It was proof we young officers had really not thought things through. We had no plan.
Likewise Barry Obama has NEVER thought things through.
Hope aint a method.
Yeah, BD, they also said that
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:35pm.
Yeah, BD, they also said that 'hope is not a STRATEGY'!!! And Boy Baraka doesn't feel that he needs to 'think things through'. His ego and narcissisn are such that if he just says something - it is the truth - end of story.
Hope aint a method (part 2)
Submitted by BD on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 6:09pm.
Yup
But then results are not required from liberals like Obama, only supposed positive motivations.
Want to solve poverty? Then as a liberal no matter how badly things end up you get credit.
Hope as a Strategy
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 9:46am.
I think the only area where "hope" is an acceptable strategy is in picking numbers for the lottery.
Then, in lottery terms, Boy
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 12:37pm.
Then, in lottery terms, Boy Baraka WON - along with the unions, the insiders,and everybody living off of the government................
and the rest of us LOST!!!
As Yoda says,
Submitted by BuffNBone on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:11am.
"Do or Not Do. There is no try"
Rah Rah Rah
Submitted by the struggler on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:33pm.
That same question should be asked of Schiefer.He was shaking the brightly colored Hope and Change pom-poms with the rest of the Liberal Media.Now he wants to act like an outside observer.Watch for more of this as Obama tanks.
Hope and Change is just code
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 4:42pm.
Hope and Change is just code word dog whistle for more taxes on the working man and bigger government handouts to those who don't pay their 'fair share'.
All we ever heard
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 5:42pm.
were the words. Nobody actually asked what was going to change and how that change would be implemented. And Barack wasn't saying.
Even a broken clock is right
Submitted by CM on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 6:28pm.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
What Bob Schieffer SHOULD HAVE ASKED Robert Gibbs:
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:02pm.
If I was Bob Schieffer, there would be no pussyfooting with this guy in my studio. I would have gotten in his face and asked: "So, you are a Senior Campaign Adviser for Obama but you ALSO work for FACEBOOK. What's up with that?????"
The Dear Ruler's Hope & Change is alive and well
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 7:14pm.
When his groomers ran him for POTUS, the Kenyan Muslim commie fraud pot head HOPEd he would be able to fool enough of the sheeple to CHANGE America into a third-world communist rat-hole before enough people woke up to what he was really doing.
So far, he's batting 1000.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
More like .333
Submitted by goodone91 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:14pm.
First was the election of Senator Brown. Then was the shellacking.
Watch his average go down further, as, first, Gov. Walker wins his recall, then Gov. Romney becomes Pres. Romney (I, however, believe the Pres. election will be a squeaker.)
The outcome of the election will depend, at least partly
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:24pm.
upon how many dead people vote, how many ballots are found in someone's trunk, and how many New Black Panther's show up at poling places.
It's probably at lot worse.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 11:55am.
Is it hard to imagine that right now SEIU and ACORN are busily printing absentee ballets for dead people and cartoon characters and on election night, 5 minutes before each station closes an unmarked mail truck dumps off the ballets at back doors across this country?
Gibbs has been in a hole for 2 years....
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:22pm.
........working on the Obama campaign.
Living in a now "swing state" of Virginia, I can't wait for these little O-worshippers to start fanning out like ants in my neighborhood with their little talking point memos. They have no clue who who they're promoting.
We HOPE...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:50am.
...Baracko and Mooch will have to CHANGE their mailing address at the end of this year...
What's with Bob Schieffer? Why is he going off the...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:57am.
Liberal tracks? Is it because he realizes the American people know how lousy of a job Obama is doing and if he continues to praise Obama at every turn in Chris Matthews like fashion he will lose his credibility as a newscaster?
A newscaster can afford to lose many things, but his credibility he can not.
But Jim, how many of these
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 12:40pm.
But Jim, how many of these 'newscasters' actually HAVE credibility??? As I said on another post yesterday, they can't follow the party line until it becomes apparant that they've been going the wrong direction, and then just do a 180, and expect anyone with half a brain to give them 'credibility'............at least that is my take on most of these 'newcasters', which is why I try to find my news elsewhere, although it's virtually impossible to be shielded from the StateRun Media.
Rudy Quote
Submitted by desertphreak on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:48pm.
Change is not a destiny, just as hope is not a strategy. - Rudy Giuliani
Even a number of the Left have lost hope in Obama and will vote for more "pie-in-the-sky" Disny-esque lies...