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So what happened to the Hope and Change?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Why do people keep asking this question, over and over. We are more hopeful as a nation since we have rid ourselves of the Republican nightmare that has brought our country to our current dire situation. We see change in that we now have a government that puts the interests of the people first and is trying to address our problems. If you have nothing worthwhile and positive to add, at least stop trying to mindlessly tear down the current efforts.

    You never had any hope and you didn't want change. That much is clear. You are wrong, you lost, now watch the winners clean up the mess that your side left behind.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think true hope is found in one man: Jesus Christ, who lived a pure and spotless life and became sin, so that you and I can have forgiveness from our sins and eternal life in Heaven with Him.

    Hope(,AR) was left behind when he threw the Clintons overboard during the Campaign.. (Joke)

    Obama is changing us from a society where there was equal opportunity to one where anybody who is successful and white, has to be knocked down a few pegs in life so they can understand what they are doing to keep the black people down. When in fact it is big government policies, such as high taxes, public housing projects, welfare, and medicaid / S.C.H.I.P. that are keeping them impoverished.

    Look at the likes of Clarence Thomas, he was born dirt poor, he worked hard and got into college, got his degree, then his law degree, then eventually became a Supreme COurt Justice.

    This is America, where regardless of your race and socio-economic background if you work hard, you can pull your self up out of poverty and achieve great things.

    With Obama being a master orator (when reading from teleprompter) he could tell the drones their dog died, thier gramma was run over by a hummer, and that they have incurable cancer and they will think he is a visionary leader whom they must worship.

    Source(s): I think real change will come in the form of a man from Louisiana (Jindal) or perhaps a woman from Alaska (Palin) or perhaps a man from Maryland (Steele), man from South Carolina (Sanford) or perhaps a man from Mississippi (Barbour) in 2012.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Rules for radicals

    August 1st, 2007 at 4:59 pm . by nuke

    Update: Andrew Walden’s review is outstanding.

    Who is this man, and what does he have to do with modern leftist political tactics?

    His name was Saul Alinsky, the mentor of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the consigliere emeritus of modern liberalism. His 1971 book, Rules for Radicals, reads like the political playbook of the Soros-Clinton machine, as well as allied groups such as Moveon.org, CREW, and others.

    Alinsky was also the subject of the previously suppressed 1969 Wellesley Thesis by one Hillary Rodham.

    Please feel free to download the pdf. As the election season moves into full swing, it becomes more important than ever to gain insight into our political opponents.

    The thesis is long and tedious. I’ve never read a thesis that wasn’t. But, it should also be revealing.

    I expect it provides a window into the mind modern democrat party and the lengths to which they will go to achieve power. And, that makes it an important read. I plan on posting some comments after I’ve read it in detail.

    So, who was Saul Alinsky? Here is an interesting snapshot of his leftist holy book (h/t Slyfox):

    Rules for Radicals provides the organizer with a tactical style for community organization that assumes an adversarial relationship between groups of people in which one either dominates or is dominated.

    “The first rule of power tactics is: power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”

    “Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.”

    “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

    Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

    “The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself.”

    “In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.”

    “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

    One of the criteria for picking the target is the target’s vulnerability … the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract.”

    “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Check out this:

    http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

    Out of the 500 promises he has made during the campaign, here is his score card as of today

    Promises kept 15

    Compromise 4

    Broken 2

    Stalled 1

    In the works 20

    He broken two promise so far, allowing five days of public comment before signing bills, he failed to do that with the signing of his first law and Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs........stay tuned.

    Better that site then partisan ones.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, the hope has changed...

    Right now, President Obama seems to be all about lowering expectations. That is why he used the word "crisis" more than 40 times in the course of a very short speech the other day...

  • Ed
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    When Ron Paul ran there was hope and change was rejected to make history. Look at the support Bush got from Democrat and Obama including votes to support the war on terror. Somebody forgot to do their homework. 95% of American's only though.

  • Banker
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    like a Teenager with their first paycheck,

    REALITY happened.

    It's one thing to sit on the sidelines and point over here and over there, where corrections should be made; quite another

    to get in there and shovel. His total lack of experience in management is coming to the fore.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe people will wise up and be careful about what they hope for. Since when is change for the sake of change always good. Did anyone ever make a major change in their life that resulted in negative results and misery.

  • The hope is gone, the change is a distaster just as I have been telling people for over a year! Obama is just a dirty politician trained by the best- Chicago Machine Mob!

    IMPEACH soon to come!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Do you know how many damn times this question has been asked? Your not original in any way. You clearly just post troll questions for the sake of getting answers that you want to hear. Im shocked that your using up your alloted internet use on mommy's computer this early in the day. Dont you have a g/f that you talk to on MSN. This relationship wont work if you two never get a chance to talk because you are wasting your half hour of internet time your mom allows this early in the day.

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