Posted on 06/15/2011 12:54:19 PM PDT by radioone
Obama 2012 Reelection Campaign: 'Hope' And 'Change' Aren't Enough To Inspire Voters
Jim Kuhnhenn began his piece (emphasis added):
As he weighed a presidential run back in 2006, President Barack Obama displayed a realistic sense of self-awareness: All the adulation he was receiving, he conceded then, was because he was a blank slate on which people could attach their aspirations.
As he seeks re-election, his self-awareness is on display again, with a new conclusion.
"It's not as cool to be an Obama supporter as it was in 2008, with the posters and all of that stuff," he acknowledged to an intimate gathering of donors in Miami this week.
It's a line he delivered with a chuckle, a variation on a theme that he is using with his base of supporters. But it holds an important truth for the Obama campaign: Obama is now a known quantity and he will not inspire voters this election the same way he did in the previous one.
Well, Jim, how much was this "blank slate" due to the miserable job virtually every so-called news outlet in America including yours did in properly vetting the junior senator from Illinois after he first announced his candidacy in February 2007?
Have you ever wondered why Hope and Change was almost all this man had to say to get elected to the highest office in the land?
Maybe if press members such as yourself would have spent their time digging into his background - ahem, kind of like you did going through 24,000 of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's email messages last week - he wouldn't have been such a "blank slate."
If "Hope" and "Change" aren't enough to inspire voters in 2012, why did so-called news organizations ensure they were in 2008?
Politicians hire advisers to assist them in creating personas the public will buy into. It is supposed to be the job of so-called journalists to pierce this veil and tell the citizenry what candidates are really about so they can make informed decisions when they head to the polls.
Unfortunately, in the 21 months that followed Obama tossing his hat into the ring, the press totally abdicated its solemn responsibility to the public by not only refusing to properly investigate and report who this man from Chicago was, but also assisting him at every turn to captivate the electorate with nothing but smoke, mirrors, and empty promises about Hope and Change.
Thanks to a complicit news media, America in 2008 elected as president a man they likely knew less as about than any in this nation's history.
This raises a very important question as a new presidential campaign begins in earnest: the public might no longer be conned by Obama's pathetic platitudes, but have his adoring fans in the press come out from under the ether yet?
Obama is TOAST for 2012.
He won 2008 based on two items:
- The country’s Anti Bush Sentiment
- The inspiring ‘Rhetorical Magic’
For 2010, the 20% who gave him the election, won’t buy those two old-worn items this time around.
Well, no. The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are not sufficient to inspire voters. You’d need the concerted effort of a traitorous MSM lying and covering 24/7 in order to make worthless promises coming from His Royal Emptyness appear to be ‘inspiring’ to self-flattering, easily gulled voters.
They, of course, didn't blame the MSM, but on Charlie Rose's show, he and Tom Brokaw, kind of chuckled that no one really knew much about Barack Obama. Unfortunately, that statement was made the weekend just before the election! They didn't seem too upset with the situation, either.
I think “making history” was a third item. And it is gone now, too.
“’Hope’ And ‘Change’ Aren’t Enough To Inspire Voters”
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Wait, when we said that, we were called ‘racists’. But when the MSM says it, it’s called ‘news’?
Oh people will still be looking for Hope and Change in 2012, just from someone other than Obama....
You forgot a third reason: his skin color.
- The inspiring ‘Rhetorical Magic’
Both creations of the media.
I’ve got hope and change:
I hope I can make it to the end of the month with the change I have in my pocket.
You forgot #3:
Vote fraud by ACORN, SEIU, illegal aliens and other hate-America commie groups.
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