Edit, since folks don't seem to get the joke: Obama's campaign slogan was "Hope"
I did it!!!
You did that?
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Thanks.
thanks dude
Wait, wasn't Obama's campaign slogan "Yes we can!"
Bill Clinton's was Hope, because his hometown was Hope, Arkansas.
Yes, but the Obama "Hope" poster is probably the most famous piece of campaign graphic design in at least 50 years.
Yes, I sprawl corrected.
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To be honest I think Pelosi had the biggest influence. She related to Biden on a personal level, knew him the longest, always treated him with respect, and voluntarily stepped down from her role as speaker, herself. Being older carries some clout, too.
Obama crushed my generation's hopes. We voted for him to end our foreign wars, crack down on Wall Street, and finally give us universal healthcare. Instead, we got the Heritage Foundation's healthcare policy and...mass surveillance, for some reason. He may have inspired hope in 2008 but he had beaten it out of us by 2014.
I don't really get the mass surveillance point. The worldwide NSA espionage started under Bush, didn't it?
It's a bit more nebulous than that. The Snowden leaks covered a collection or different programs between the NSA and GCHQ which took place over several years. Some of them began under Bush, some of them began under Obama, some of them were expanded under Obama, some of them Obama lied about shutting down...However, there was a huge expansion of American meta data being collected under Obama, even though candidate Obama had condemned Bush's warrentless wire tapping program.
Genuine question (not from the USA), why was "hope" the campaign slogan?
Because 8 years of Dubya / Rumsfeld / Cheney
Damn I'll need to google all these terms
"Dubya" is a nickname for George W. Bush that was coined by newspaper columnist Molly Ivins. The name is a Texafied pronunciation of the letter W.
Dubya was the President from 2001 to 2009, in the two terms preceding Obama. Rumsfeld was Dubya's defense secretary, and Cheney was the vice president.
Has there been a time or place where more hope was not a good thing?
They hoped for more drone strikes.
Well it was "hope and change", but then he went a little light on the change part.
i'm sure syrians felt very hopeful in his term
I'm sure they did, considering the uprising during the Arab Spring against Assad's murderous regime. But I never took you as an advocate for US interventionism!
I'm not sure a democratic uprising Obama didn't support and a civil war that has lasted 12 years and counting are great examples of Obama inspiring hope.
i'm surely not such an advocate. i'm sure whatever you said justifies all that senseless death.
I guess it's 2017 again?
Yeah, like now everyone who wanted this has to donate their max.
Even if it's just to send a message to the donor class that biffing Biden was the right move. $2 or $27.
If you wanted Biden off the ticket, got what you wished for, pony up.
I'll send mine in just for the unity message.
E: if you need the link to donate just check your text spam folders.
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Don't worry Mr. President, I'll handle sexy
Best Republican president since Nixon.
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