Can someone please explain to me exactly what the fuck "Change you can believe in" means?
I've been trying to figure out just what the hell Obamessiah's message is, and for the life of me I have no idea. "Believe in" "change". Well, duh. No matter what happens, the administration is going to change. Anyone can believe it that (well, except perhaps for the diehard DU'ers who think Bush is going to stage a coup and become El Presidente Supremo for Life-o, and may I remind my conservative brethren that there was a not-inconsequential number of us - present company included - who weren't so certain that Bubba wasn't going to pull something similar...)
"Change you can believe in". That just about takes the empty rhetoric cake. Why would you "believe in" change? Change is guaranteed. Change is neither good not bad, only different. Why on earth would you build a campaign slogan around it? I don't understand. No matter what happens, our president will change come January 2009. That's iron-clad, and if Bush were to try to stage a coup, I've got a newsflash for our Democratic friends: That's what the second amendment (the one Obama and Hillary! want to gut, BTW) is really all about - me and my "gun nut" buddies would be the first ones to take up arms against a new American dictator.
And they know that. That's why a good number of politicians fear the second amendment.
So change is therefore inevitable. Saying that one can "Believe in" "change" is like saying "Concrete you can believe in" or "Oxygen you can believe in". Uh, thanks. It was going to happen anyways.
So who's buying this crap, anyways, and how do we convince them to stay the hell home on election day?
That is all.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
9 comments:
Bubba IS trying to pull something similar...right now. He's trying to get his wife in the White House for another "2 for the price of 1" presidency.
Shorter Obama:
"Change; Is all I'm gonna leave from your paycheck, after all my new taxes!
Small change, at that.
Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Change you can believe in means that you will get the same BS we have recently voted on in MASS on a national level. . . all talk and no plan. . . . well, other than the plan to raise taxes and hose the working folks. . .
I think that after 7 years of having a President who cannot speak in complete sentences the sudden appearance of an actual speaker has the masses stupefied.
I had hoped that the last 7 years would have taught the people of this country that sticking your nose up the ass of any politician is not a wise thing to do.
Obviously it has not worked. Let's hope that if Obama is elected 4 years will be enough time for him to disgust the Democrats as much as Bush has disgusted me, a former Republican.
JD has it pretty much right. I had the "pleasure" of hearing Obama's entire speech the night before the MA primary.
It was very long on applause lines, but totally lacking in specifics. He told the crowd that "George Bush and Dick Cheney will not be President and Vice President next year". Duh.
He also pledged to get all US troops out of Iraq in 2009. BS.
He promised that the rich would pay more taxes and "working families" would pay less. Bill Clinton promised that too in 1992.
He promised free this and free that, but not a word of how he was going to pay for it. Congratulations Jay, you've just become one of the "super rich".
If McCain is smart, he is going to want about 50 debates in the general election and he'll pin Obama down to specifics.
Gary
Jay, the meaning of "change you can believe in" is simple. It means "change that you can safely believe will make things better." Everyone wants to believe that a change in their situation will make things better. Everyone hates it when things change for the worse. Obama is promising that the changes he brings will make things better for the people who vote for him. It's really a wonderful political slogan. Short, simple, direct, and depends entirely on the listener's own preconceptions to fill in the meaning.
As a promise it's totally worthless, of course. Impossible to deliver on.
But a wonderful slogan.
Gods, how I hate politicians and their propaganda.
"Change we can all believe in" means the same as "Together we can".
We've seen this song and dance routine before. Its "feel good" you're electing me time.
"Can someone please explain to me exactly what the fuck "Change you can believe in" means?"
Is that what they are saying? To me it just sounds like the adults in the Peanuts cartoons; "Wah-wah, wah-wah, wah-wah."
Obama-rama's message is the same as KC Deval's was: Change...ummmm...
something?
I never did figure that one out either.
Post a Comment