Posted on 01/06/2008 12:07:52 PM PST by mattstat
"To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Webster, 1913.
Barack Obama is the official candidate of change. In last nights debates in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton boasted that she was a bigger candidate of change than Obama, and further, she had been changing for thirty-five years! Mitt Romney, the next day, agreed with his Democrat cousins, when at a rally he said, What is needed is change. All of the other candidates, both Democrat and Republican, agree, more or less stridently, that change is a requirement for the new president.
By the way, an informal statistical count I conducted in last nights debate shows Fred Thompson using this word the least. Obama, of course, used it the most.
Change is such a strong word, so often found in political rhetoric, because it is infinitely malleable. What makes it so powerful...
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Got any spare change H! ?
We are left with change from all the candidates....Republicans or Democrats. Spare change.
Seems to be the word of the day for the last six months. Of course there will be change. But, the coins are made of zinc now rather than silver.
Change from capitalism to communism.
Both are sooo nineteenth century, but useful to distract the attention of those who would otherwise be on the street and up to no good.
“Change” = what you get back after Dems take your dollar.
“Change is Good” is the ideology of a cancer cell.
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