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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
This is what I was saying when Obama was campaigning. He mostly got elected for chanting feel good slogans. "hope and change!", "yes we can" etc.
The mob is quite fickle  and likability / physical appearance plays a major role. Of course, people were looking for the polar opposite of Bush, so it was an easy sell and clear choice. Certainly wouldn't have been Hillary.
What amused me about this was not the absence of any real meaningful message as people actively were getting on board with a guy that still had no message (at least up through the primaries)... it was that this kind of thing has been the same message since the dawn of civilization. "they don't listen anymore...its time we were heard... its time we went there and showed those fat cats that we're not going to take it anymore... its time for change... their greed this... their greed that... we need to throw those bastards out..." etc etc. It all could have just as easily been said in the Roman Senate in 100 B.C. |
I remember watching Obama's speech the night he won the election. It was kind of somber and had the tone of "we have a long way to go and a lot of work to do and it won't happen overnight." All of the news commentators seemed shocked at the sudden change in tone. I think it was the first time he was honest and not just chanting slogans and people were suddenly shocked by it. It was like people had ordered a mail order bride and when she got there she didn't speak your language.