Obama Revises 'Change' To 'Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas'

[Demeter]

Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of 'Change' To 'Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas'

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/obama_revises_campaign?utm_source=onion_rss_daily

WASHINGTON—In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration's message of "Change" has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan "Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas." "Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls for barely measurable and largely symbolic improvements in the status quo," said Obama, who vowed never to waver in his fight for every last infinitesimal nudge forward on the controversial issues of torture and the military ban on homosexuals. "Remember: Yes we can, if by that you mean tiptoeing around potentially unpopular decisions that could alienate a large segment of the populace." Washington insiders said that, while the new mottos are certainly in keeping with Obama's pledge of government transparency, they are significantly less catchy.

[David__77]

1. Ha...

So true... I'd like to be proven wrong. I know there's strategy and there's tactics. But we rightly don't want to get swallowed up into more pragmatic bullshit about the need to wait for x, y, and z to transpire for before something gets done actually.

[pscot]

2. Doesn't quite have that same clarion ring, does it?

n/t

[PM Martin]

3. The Onion is sounding more real every day.

[KG]

4. I hear your desperate calls for barely measurable and largely symbolic improvements

in the status quo...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bertman]

5. Onion wisdom. Got to love it. Thanks, Demeter.

[bvar22]

6. It is SATIRE., folks.

And like all good satire, it is based in reality.

K&R

[Demeter]

7. Unfortunately, Yes