Hillary should say: "I want to be a President who sounds like the people you work with ---

[smalll]

not a President who sounds like the guy who downsized you." Take that line from Huckabee and use it.

She needs to bring home what a lot of Democrats already understand in their bones. Any cube rat over 30 knows what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Obama's recycled line about "doing the same thing with the same people -- the definition of insanity." About his stark generational favoritism. His rhetorical side-swipes at Democrats and Democratic fights of the past. The faux empowerment that does nothing more than to "empower" people to follow the great leader’s line. The fierce urgency, to him and his supporters, of change, and the irrelevance to them of experience. (Just now on another active thread, I ran across this un-ironic post from an Obamatron: "When people want change, experience is a liability.")

Obama sounds like management in companies whose stock prices aren’t wowing Wall Street. He needs to improve the business. So what does he do? Brings in high-paid “consultants.” So kids straight out of college start gamboling about the workplace, taking notes – and then he follows their advice: ignore the strengths and skills of your employees, throw them out with the bathwater, re-organize everything, re-name everything, shake up everything, get your employees to feel “inspired” by tossing plastic fish around, all the while weeding out the older employees –- those with experience, their own perspectives and opinions (and bigger paychecks) -- and replacing them with early-twentysomethings –- tabula rasas who will take to the squeeze better than people who remember working only 9 (or even 8) hours a day. All-nighters? No problem, the new kids’ll just chug down Red Bulls. The same new kids who’ll swallow the new jargon and the new nonsense whole, and at least pretend to like it.

Hillary sounds like your colleages and friends who have been in the trenches with you. Obama sounds like management. Who do most people really want to vote for?

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. Obama sounds like the guys I used to read about in school, you know the great leaders of yesterday

Clinton sounds like my mom when she used to yell at me.

[Bucky]

2. Good point.

And yet, part of me thinks you might've deserved it. ;)

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. oh I definitely deserved it

:evilgrin:

[smalll]

3. "The guys I used to read about in school, you know the great leaders of yesterday" - LOL -

Who do you remember from your Social Studies textbooks? JFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X? Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, FDR? Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington? Shi Huang Ti, Augustus Caesar, Ramses, and Hammurabi? Yeah. He's pretty much like all those guys. :eyes:

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. for today, with the crap leaders in the world we have...yeah, he does

[Johnny__Motown]

4. Nobody who downsized you gives you hope. Obama makes me hopeful. Hillary makes me doubtful

[livetohike]

5. Judging by many of the people I have worked with.....

I definitely don't want a President like them :-).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. My thought exactly.

Eek. Some of my co-workers are way too weird to be President.

[NJObamaWoman]

7. Nope people who downsize use tactics to divide people like HRC

People who inspire me like Obama are the people I live and work with.

[smalll]

10. I think I owe myself one late-night kick -

I deserve it. I'm such a good citizen, this was my ONLY OP today, and I didn't do one at ALL yesterday! (Which makes me wonder, do we get "roll-over" threads, like cellphone minutes?)