Nauseating - other candidates using the 'CHANGE ' theme

[Rosa Luxemburg]

how many posters and signs are now popping up at Clinton, Romney and other candidates' rallies!

Copycats.

how pathetic it is to see Mrs Clinton hop off a bus with a Change sign on the side! How nauseating it is to see Romney using change. These people will produce no more change than a dead parrot!

It just shows how much influence the innovative messenger of real change Barack Obama is bringing to this race!

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. yeah. Obama made up the word. It has never been used in campaigns before

This is the first time ever. Ever. Clinton did not use it in 92.

whatever.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. 2008

[jackson_dem]

6. Clinton's 92 slogan was "It's time for a CHANGE"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. 2008

this campaign

Clinton did bring change but I don't think Romney or his wife will?

[jackson_dem]

13. Edwards has been talking about change and "hope" for five years

[niceypoo]

14. Maybe he Hopes things will Change?

[durrrty libby]

9. He did. He did. He has a patent on it ....

[LSparkle]

2. The "Change Begins With Mitt" slogan is especially sickening

A second-generation politician, former governor, big-business insider parading as a "man of the people" wanting to "shake things up in D.C."

:puke:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. what does that say for his Fuhrer, Bush?

doesn't look good for Bush and Cheney does it?

[jackson_dem]

5. Candidates have been running on "change" since Jefferson in 1800

[stillcool]

7. They know a good thing...

when they hear it! Mitt Romney. :rofl:

[Bluebear]

10. "the innovative messenger!"

Yes, no politician has ever promised change before. :silly:

[Adelante]

11. There is nothing original in political speech

You will drive yourself crazy if you get into this. It's all been done before.

[jenmarie]

12. You're kidding yourself

if you think Obama is not a typical politician who will do and say anything to get elected. Not saying that's bad of him -- it's what politicians do. But to believe he is different is to be blinded by his ability to talk pretty.

We know Obama was considering a YEA vote for Roberts for US Supreme Court Chief Justice, but was talked out of it in 2005 by his chief of staff Pete Rouse who reminded him it could cripple a future presidential run. (which shows caving for personal political ambitions but we won't go there)

Note the irony here though--

Keeping within the famous Obama themes of "CHANGE" "Out with the Old DC Status Quo, and In with the NEW" - He hires as his number one guy, the insider's insider, Pete Rouse to be his chief of staff.... Rouse is known for his three decades as a Washington DC insider, beginning in 1971 when he worked as an aide to Senator Tom Daschle, later with Dick Durbin, etc. Hardly someone you'd glom onto to craft a spanking new image of freshness and departure from the "Same Old Same Old" style of beltway politics. Yet Obama selects him out of a slew of other younger less experienced offerees (per the article) And puts him in the Decider's seat, the driver's seat --of his career.

With that in mind, here's how Obama applauds the senior old time codger who's helping him form some of the most important career decisions of his life.

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"Pete's very good at looking around the corners of decisions and playing out the implications of them," Obama said an interview.

KEY PHRASES HERE -----> "He's been around long enough that he can recognize problems and pitfalls a lot quicker than others can." "His familiarity with Washington makes him somebody whose judgment I trust," Obama said.

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So,' been around long enough' had real value in Obama's book when picking his leader -- And longtime familiarity with Washington DC equates with 'judgment you can trust'. Kinda sounds like Obama wants experience running his world instead of all that change/hope stuff that's supposed to be good enough for the rest of us. The guy reminds me of those really smooth talking salesmen that place you momentarily into a semi - trance, next thing you know you've bought a car you don't like.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601446.html?nav=hcmodule

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Most politicians talk about change

"Change" or "new ideas" like Gary Hart kept repeating over and over in his campaign to the point where I questioned what it meant. In this campaign, however, the word "change" to me never gets old. I look forward to a change in the White House with giddy anticipation.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. most of them don't mean it