Is Obama's 2008 Campaign Slogan of 'Hope and Change' Still Real or Is It Laughable?

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You're a riot Alice! Gotta be 50 + to get it.

It should now be " Cut and Run"

Well, it surely wasn't real in terms of the kind of "change" this country needed to see, but it's actually not too funny in terms of laughable, really. His new "forward" slogan is a veiled or not so veiled reference to the totalitarian socialism Obama seeks for this country. He's come a long way toward socialism, primarily with that health care law no one has read in its entirety, including the legislators who voted for it! We are bordering on a police state since Obama signed Executve Orders giving him control of the Internet, energy sources, food, water, all communications, and the elections. He can suspend the elections with no possibility of intervention by Congress by his order. The military can be authorized by him to arrest and hold any citizen without just cause, in violation of Habeas Corpus. These are changes that are not laughable. But there's been no REAL solution to the crushing problems facing this country. I would vote for Romney if his running mate were Count Dracula! We desperately need change!

Change has been through his term. Probably not as much change as he would have liked because of all the gridlock.

Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

Pardon? I'm a doorknob?

Change to Communism!

This fraud got everything he wanted in the first two years so don't give me the gridlock BS. His change is as real as his Photoshop documents.

I don't want to change to Communism, sir. I don't think any president has ever accomplished everything they ever wanted, that would not be Democracy.

Only thing Obama has accomplished is to devide this Country. He has made a laughing stock out of our Constitution and turned the Statue of LIberty into a socialist Witch.

I don't believe that. This concludes our discussion then, for our opinions are different. Good day then.

Too sad that your are not even willing to listen to facts. I thought there was hope for you.

I don't listen to only facts. I want to listen to the reflection of one's heart, I am not a robot or a cyborg. I am human and I judge situations as a human being.

LOL

That's HorseS**t. If those candyA** teabaggers in the Senate were made to actually get off their ass and filibuster instead of just threatening it, your statement would have some truth.

Your unintelligent answer will not distract from the facts. It is the Democrats in the Senate that saved Obama's ass over and over again. However, just like Obama they are on borrowed time. The clock is ticking and will expire soon. Obama out of office in January 2013 followed by Impeachment February 2013.

Uhhh... what was that again???

I correct myself. Obama will be impeached before his inauguration. PERIOD

Grid Lock??? He had the House and the Senate for two years....Next you'll say the dog ate his homework...

They got the health care bill passed, but they too argued.

Sick care tax. It is not health care.

That is how it was named, that is what I will call it.

Since you're only sixteen I'll cut you some slack. But you are old enough to read. So there is no excuse for being ignorant.

I am not ignorant, sir. Apparently on this site, you are not ignorant means being angry with politicians for being human. You are not ignorant if you have no hope for those that are working for you. I'm sorry I'm not stomping my feet hard enough for you. But I hold hope, and you are not going to take it away from me! No way, no how.

I have no power to take hope away from you. Just as I have no power to force you to believe in something that is an obvious lie.

At least you believe that. We all have the Freedom to speak as we please, and the Freedom to not abide by what is said.

Change is not always good. Obama has changed our debt fro 10 to 15 trillion.

Obama didn't change it himself. He just allowed it to change to that instead of changing to 5 trillion like he promised.

No...his policies led to that. I hope for a change of president

Most of that debt is paying off the charges that Dumbya Bush added up.

Simply not true.

Please explain... only numbers and facts will be acceptable.

It's been 4 years since Bush left yet the debt is increasing. It was 10 trillion, but now it's 16 trillion and increasing which caused the credit rating to go down for the first and second time in history.

The teabaggers in congress are the ones that caused the credit rating to go down. The interest on the debt Bush left is around $800B a year. When Bush was appointed to the White House the CBO projected that the then $5T debt would be paid down in the next 10 years and we would have a surplus of $1T. Bush gave part of that to the rich with his tax giveaway and created the rest of his $10T debt with two wars, one of which was illegal... not to mention stupid. Republicans want to spend, they just don't want to pay.

It's because of the debt. It's been rising ever since he got into office ans is still rising now over 16 trillion.

The war in Iraq produced very little debt since it started in 2003 and the debt slowly started rising. And the war in Afghanistan started in 2001, and again, the debt slowly started to rise. There was no sudden increase until 2007 which is years after the wars started.

But it was when the bills started coming due, and it was 7 years into the Bush administration with a year left to go.

You are delusional if you think the wars didn't cause the debt. They weren't even in the budget. Every bit if that money was over and above the budget. The Republicans couldn't get us into war fast enough... but they didn't want to pay for it.

And don't lose sight of who saddled us with the first 10T before Obama took office.

The other 43 presidents. Obama has created more debt than any other

Actually the 5T debt was supposed to be paid off and we were to have a 1T surplus 10 years after Clinton left. Bush turned that into a 10T deficit in eight years.

The debt rose 5 trillion in 8 years under Bush, and Obama promised to cut it in half but instead raised it by over 5 trillion in 4 years.