Hope and Change Defined

Obama ran his campaign on a theme of “Hope and Change”. He was going to eliminate the influence of lobbyists on Washington, eliminate deficits, close Gitmo, get the troops out of Iraq on day one and generally achieve “the most ethical administration in history” (copyright Bill Clinton/Nancy Pelosi).
In the first few weeks of his administration, we’ve seen numerous tax cheats, lobbyists and tax cheat lobbyists paraded before us as cabinet appointments. Obama has (rightfully) waffled on troop withdrawal from Iraq, dithered over Gitmo and has proposed an unprecedented, budget busting, pork laden “stimulus” bill that has virtually everything but stimulus in it.
Much like the old episode of the Twilight Zone, where linguists finally deciphered that “To Serve Man” was a cookbook, our own crack staff of crypto-linguists have labored day and night to decipher Obama’s campaign words: “Hope” and “Change”.
Here is a graphic representation of their findings:
Hope:

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Change:
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Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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  • http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

    KLATU VERATA NIKTO!!

    All Heil The New-Speak!

    Public Servant -

    Citizen Advocate -

    Stimulus -

  • 11B40

    Greetings:

    My witticism in this regard is sung to “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”. The opening line is “He’s beginning to look a lot like Chavez, everywhere he goes…”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Well then what were you trying to say? What point could you have been trying to make?

    Hear, let me misspell sumthing for yuo. That shud bring bak yur confidunce.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    barry had a cocaine problem, not a booze problem.

    I have it from a reliable source that this picture of Obama, hanging with Hannitized in Hawaii, is the one from which he photoshopped his picture of Bush!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    nominees who had “tax errors” have stepped down

    I missed this bit of spin! I hadn’t heard the Geithner announcement, Wankertized. When did he step down?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    ASSHOLES.

    Thanks for signing your post. I’m assuming you’re speaking for all the little voices in your head!

  • ellinas

    It has been 17 days and I can’t ignore the Historical significance Obama is already making on the Oil business.

    Zsa Zsa on February 7, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Please explain in plain English what he has done to the oil buisiness during the past 17 days.

  • docdave

    Here is an excerpt from one of the previous saviours (Hilters) speeches to the German people.

    The misery of our people is horrible to behold! Millions of the industrial proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches the German peasants, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a two-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization.

    The National Government intends to solve the problem of the reorganization of trade and commerce with two four-year plans:

    The German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life….

    A concerted and all-embracing attack must be made on unemployment in order that the German working class may be saved from ruin….

    The November parties have ruined the German peasantry in fourteen years.

    In fourteen years they have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government will, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan:

    Within four years the German peasant must be rescued from the quagmire into which he has fallen.

    Within four years unemployment must be finally overcome. At the same time the conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce are provided.

    The National Government will couple with this tremendous task of reorganizing business life a reorganization of the administrative and fiscal systems of the Reich, of the Federal States, and the Communes.

    Only when this has been done can the idea of a continued federal existence of the entire Reich be fully realized….

    Lots of hope and change there. Here is a link to many of his speechs for those who might be interested. http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/speeches/speeches-hitler.html

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    I don’t usually harp on peoples’ mistakes but Proof is such a little spelling bitch I had to chide him about not knowing who was President in 1992.

    Oh MY! I didn’t know the word bate. Proof didn’t know who was President in 1992.

    As for your post topic: Only the naive thought that Obama was going to single-handedly change the way Washington DC operates, particularly in the first 17 days.

    Besides, you stems don’t want it to change. Your scum leaders dominated for 30 years and CREATED the atmosphere of greed and self-interest that exists in DC.

    Once again, the conservatives set the house on fire and then sit back and criticize those trying to put it out for not being fast enough. ASSHOLES.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Proof didn’t know who was President in 1992.

    Dino: You really are a dumbass! Have you never heard of a rhetorical question?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The most strict guidlines (sic) for any lobbyists in any administration in history,

    From a guy who said:

    “they won’t work in my White House”

    You heard the video over here didn’t you? Or did you make those four comments over there without watching the videos that were part of the post?

    What part of the words “won’t work” didn’t you understand, Han-job? (The only four letter word you seem to understand is the “f”-bomb you love to drop, isn’t it?)

    And aside from all of that spin

    The only one “spinning” here, dear child, is you.

  • Hannitized

    Every time Obama makes history, you can ignore the significance of the massive change he has brought to the White House, that is what you do, ignore reality.

    But the fact of the matter is has only put to work FORMER lobbyists, which is different from what you said he did. And a small handful at that.

    But putting all of this aside, what do we know:

    But another watchdog, Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center, praised Obama’s rules as “a good starting place” and urged patience in judging their efficacy.

    “Any good set of ethics rules has the opportunity for waivers, but if the waivers become the rule, rather than the exception, then you have to look at whether the waivers are being sought too frequently or whether there’s a problem with the rule,” McGehee said. “I don’t think we’re at that point yet.”

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18128.html

    I don’t think we are at that point either.

    Obama still has the most strict policy on lobbyists and former lobbyists than any other president in history.

    Thank you Mr. President.

  • jimmypop

    Almost forgot!

    youre wrong to post this picture!

    barry had a cocaine problem, not a booze problem.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    you thought Clinton was President in 92.

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  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    I said Obama has Negatively impacted the Oil Industry in his first 17 days. Perhaps I should also have added America’s Energy Security. His Department of Interior is beginning to Restrict the Industry’s already limited access to new Reserves. This has happened in Utah, as to Oil Shale and Offshore. It is a Mistake to shut down Exploration in any area. Exploration does not equal Environmental degradation, it is simply the determination of whether further development is called for. When the Price of energy skyrockets again, who will the Socialists blame? The Oil Industry of course. Can we agree that a post-partisan approach would not be the one chosen by The One (Obama) in this case?

  • http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

    Stealing has now become “Unsanctioned Transfer of Ownership” ……..

  • Mickey

    And aside from all of that spin, we still see:

    The most strict guidelines for any lobbyists in any administration in history, Gitmo is going to be closed, nominees who had “tax errors” have stepped down and his stimulus bill is just their opinion of what will stimulate the economy.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG TALK ABOUT SPIN!

    1. Daschle may not of been a lobbyist but he sure as hell operated as one. BUSTED.
    1A. LOBBYISTS ARE GETTING APPOINTMENTS!

    2. Closing Gitmo will prove to be a mistake. NOBODY wants these people. So Obama will burden our legal system with this scum and set them free just like he did the USS Cole Terrorists. What a sorry ass president.

    3. Nominees were publicly exposed and THEN stepped down. Obama lacks the ability to choose honest representatives, or he doesn’t care. I believe the latter.

    4. Porkulus bill is a joke just like Obama.

    __________________________________________________________

    FEAR THE HOPE…OBAMA WILL BE A CATASTROPIC FAILURE

  • Mickey

    The inevitable populist reaction will be swift. And it won’t be pretty. I’m looking forward to the shitslide that will bury Obama.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    The inevitable populist reaction will be swift.

    That already happened in 2006 and again in 2008. Where were you?

    Conservatism is on the fringes, the outside looking in. It’s O-V-E-R for them for DECADES.

  • FlyOnTheWall

    proposed an unprecedented, budget busting, pork laden “stimulus” bill that has virtually everything but stimulus in it.

    Let’s be fair, Bush did this. Obama just ran it another 90 yards. I would, therefore, declare this one not truly ‘change’ in the classical sense.

    “the most ethical administration in history” (copyright Bill Clinton/Nancy Pelosi).

    LOL I want the little copyright symbol easily available for casual writing! Does Hillary get a quarter every time someone uses the phrase?

  • http://pennypatch1.com/id139.html Ron Russell

    Obama is just another liberal politician with a silver tongue even if it is forked as the native American would say. Great speakers come in all shapes and colors. Remember the great speaker and leader of the 1930′s who promised to lift his people out of the great depression and restore his nations respect in the rest of the world, one who promised hope and change—wasn’t that the Austrian house painter!!

    I think we are in for a form of Kenyan Keynesianism that will have us all headed for the cow pasture to find any dropings left there, just as the ONE’s cousins are have to do in Zimbabwe under a similar plan. Thankfully, I live in a rural area and will have a good supply. The ONE’s urban supporters will have to make do with scrapings from his monuments in the public square when the money for food stamps runs out.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    C’mon now. You were pointing out the large number of jobs lost in 92 and asked who was President then. It was in response to my pointing out how times of high unemployment are always when republicans are in the White House. Unless you were trying to disparage Bush the First, I assume you were making a slap at Clinton. And that is what you were doing.

    Rhetorical or not, you thought Clinton was President in 92. You never did explain why all of our most ugly job-killing recessions have been under republican Presidents.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    It has been 17 days and I can’t ignore the Historical significance Obama is already making on the Oil business. I wouldn’t doubt if Maxine Waters is in his office or on the phone trying to think of ways to Nationalize the Oil Business. Obama is a Socialist. Socialist’s want Govt to be in charge and not the people. I wish he would go back to Kenya and leave us alone.

  • Neiman

    Rabid American

    Great stuff! By the way, as to KLATU VERATA NIKTO, I don’t recall that being translated in the movie, which applies because the Leftist, Obama New-Speak, have no clear definitions, they move with the wind.

  • http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

    Heh!

    eunuchized the beardless catamite of the “freudian projections” and severe reluctance bordering on inability to admit error commenting on someone else’s reluctance to admit error. Pluck first the beam from thine own eye, eunuchized.

  • LoadTheMule

    How unbecoming, watching Proof spin like a troll. Why can’t you just admit you blew it with the ‘who-was-Prez-in-92 thing? Pretending that you didn’t is a painfully obvious attempt to pass off bullshit as chocolate pie.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    At last count, 14 lobbyists work in the Obama White House.

    Hat tip Doug Ross

    Note to the Kahuna of the Kiddie Pool: Fourteen is more than none!

  • Ted

    No to “stimulus” bill. Here’s why:
    Since Obama’s earnest drive to convince the nation to weaken its economic strength through redistribution as well as weaken its national defense, has confirmed the very threats to our Republic’s survival that the Constitution was designed to avert, it no longer is sustainable for the United States Supreme Court and Military Joint Chiefs to refrain from exercising WHAT IS THEIR ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO DEFEND THE NATION FROM UNLAWFUL USURPATION. The questions of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his father’s Kenyan/British citizenship (admitted on his own website) have been conflated by his sustained unwillingnes to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal, and compounded by his internet posting of a discredited ‘after-the-fact’ short form ‘certificate’. In the absence of these issues being acknowledged and addressed, IT IS MANIFEST THAT OBAMA REMAINS INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Being a 14th Amendment ‘citizen’ is not sufficient. A ‘President’ MUST BE an Article 2 ‘natural born citizen’ AS DEFINED BY THE FRAMERS’ INTENT.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    BTW, in case you’re slow with pictures, too, Wankertized, those represent “smoke” and “mirrors“.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It would be great if he would admit his obvious mistakes, but he never does admit to them. Especially when it is his rivals who catch him.

    Like your “nominees who had “tax errors” have stepped down” bit of tripe. I missed it: When did Geithner step down?

    As to the above tempest in a teapot, there is a difference between “misspeaking” (an Olympic event for our new Commander-in-Chief) and “not knowing something”. I was not accused of misspeaking, I was accused of not knowing something. I admit to the former and scoff at the latter.

    As far as Dino knowing what I know, the comment stands:

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    Wankertized, on the other hand…well, is Wankertized!
    I think most of us have given up hope that this mind numbingly stupid and mind numbingly dishonest troll will ever have a real thought!

  • Hannitized

    Why can’t you just admit you blew it with the ‘who-was-Prez-in-92 thing?

    Honesty is not everyone’s virtue. It would be great if he would admit his obvious mistakes, but he never does admit to them. Especially when it is his rivals who catch him.

    Pretending that you didn’t is a painfully obvious attempt to pass off bullshit as chocolate pie.

    Painful, it is.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It would be great if he would admit his obvious mistakes, but he never does admit to them

    Troll-boy thinks that because the little voices in his head tell him differently that I am somehow “mistaken”. On those rare occasions when I have been mistaken, I have admitted it.

    Poi-boy, on the other hand, still will not admit that his boneheaded “camp” is “short” for “campaign” mistake was such, no matter how many reference works we show him.

    Honesty is not everyone’s virtue. It would be great if he would admit his obvious mistakes, but he never does admit to them. Especially when it is his rivals who catch him.

    Hannitwit writes his autobiography! Heh.

  • http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

    MSM reporting –

  • Hannitized

    In the first few weeks of his administration, we’ve seen numerous tax cheats, lobbyists and tax cheat lobbyists paraded before us as cabinet appointments. Obama has (rightfully) waffled on troop withdrawal from Iraq, dithered over Gitmo and has proposed an unprecedented, budget busting, pork laden “stimulus” bill that has virtually everything but stimulus in it.

    And aside from all of that spin, we still see:

    The most strict guidlines for any lobbyists in any administration in history, Gitmo is going to be closed, nominees who had “tax errors” have stepped down and his stimulus bill is just their opinion of what will stimulate the economy.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Every time Obama makes history

    I believe he has already made history in the sheer number of campaign promises broken in the first month of his presidency! Also, the number of tax cheats appointed to cabinet posts, both approved and disallowed.
    Yeah, baby! That’s change!

    Obama still has the most strict policy on lobbyists and former lobbyists than any other president in history.

    But not as strict as what he promised, which is to say “none”. That’s what we here in reality call “a broken campaign promise“. Or lie, if you will! Your choice!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Or is he using “won’t work” in the same sense as:

    “The stimulus package won’t work.”?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Almost forgot!

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    Heh.

  • dawneyr

    Neiman, I agree.

  • Neiman

    Every time Obama makes history, you can ignore the significance of the massive change he has brought to the White House, that is what you do, ignore reality.

    I get sick and tired of the making history nonsense! Every new POTUS is an historical pick, they are all unique and will be in the history books for good or ill, every decision they make or word they utter is, by definition, historical. Change DOES NOT equal good, they are not synonymous terms. If, as I believe he is changing America into a Socialist state, that is change, but not good change. As to his so-called ethical white house, it is all in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it? People like Daschle may have dropped out, because they were exposed for their crimes, Obama did not “change” his mind once he found out they were unethical human beings. If not exposed to the media and people, I assure you he would have pushed these unethical, criminals through, he did at least one at Treasury. Which tells me he has some more unethical people around him, they just have not been seen in the headlights yet.

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