Posted on 12/22/2016 3:12:06 PM PST by Hojczyk
In 2008, Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” was a brilliant slogan for his historic campaign and an apt summary of why most people cast votes in any democracy.
No one will better Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign commercial, which opens with the image of a train station called Hope: “I was born in a little town called Hope, Arkansas.”
Given hope’s roots in Bethlehem, it’s no coincidence that so many sky’s-the-limit politicians turn messianic.
Hillary Clinton, who considers herself the spiritual heir of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s politics, is no doubt shattered that those once-potent ideas, which are also Mr. Obama’s ideas, failed her this year.
Donald Trump, promiser of “a beautiful wall,” out-hoped the progressives who thought they owned it. Voters concluded that an ideology-free businessman would turn hope into change better than yet another bearer of liberal orthodoxy.
Among the reasons for Mr. Trump’s win is the corrosive state of the nation’s culture, from the opioid crisis to political correctness. The notion that Donald Trump might help rehabilitate the culture would strike many as laughable.
Maybe so. But Donald Trump seems to have been genuinely moved by the opioid crisis he discovered in New Hampshire and elsewhere. That kind of exposure is another argument for the 50-state Electoral College.
Our electoral system, up and running since 1789, forces candidates to meet people living in a large, regionally complex country. Running for president may attract self-inflated personalities, but there is only one person looking into the faces of and listening to uncounted pleas on the campaign trail—from Iowans, Floridians, Ohioans, Mainers—and that is the candidate.
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Except, America is NOT a democracy, and for good reason. The premise is flawed, along with the rest of the drivel. Conservative or Libtard slant, I don't care. When the writer gets a proper education into exactly what America is and stands for, then perhaps I'll listen.
She may make that claim, but she's smart enough to know better. She is the spiritual heir of Pol Pot, Stalin, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mao, and the rest of the far left's communist dictators who killed without remorse.
For the first time in OVER 8 years I HAVE hope. Thank you team Trump. #maga
With M.O. out of the White House, who will continue to popularize boob belts?
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time in 8 Years”
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=most+wonderful+time+in+8+years&&view=detail&mid=95FCDF3A04E5A1AFF6F195FCDF3A04E5A1AFF6F1&FORM=VRDGAR
Why do people post articles here that people cannot read without a subscription? I would love to read the rest of the article, but I cannot, which is why I delete all WSJ articles that are sent in my email. Bah! Humbug!
Hulk sad.
Then click on the link & you'll be able to read the whole article
Buttcrack O is Jarjar.
If the Wookie is despairing I am rejoicing.
This is going to be a very Merry Christmas indeed.
Two wolves and a sheep voted on what to have for dinner.
I think it's because Google has a deal with the NYT to allow its readers access to Slimes' articles, no strings attached.
Empty promises of “hope” have been replaced with expectations of results.
Dial up Google and enter the article’s title in the search line. It will come up.
I hope Moochelle spends the rest of her life miserable and angry. I hope she is destined to eat the same food she forced on millions of school children. I hope she learns what it’s like not taking 10 million dollar vacations every year. i hope she learns what it is to not have a hair stylist that costs millions to install her fake weaves. moochelle is trash of the lowest level. She is a power hungry racist woman who has a lot of karma coming her way.
Wonderful! Thanks for posting!
ping
Thanks!
I subscribe to the WSJ because their editorial page is wonderful.
This is Wall Street Journal — not NY Times. But, I’ll try it next time.
WSJ used to send you a few articles from their editorial page without a subscription, but they stopped that several years ago.
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