Change.
Every politician sells themselves as the candidate of change. It’s the word to say, the word to be, it always has been and probably always will. It’s classic BS politics – it’s ambiguous, noncommittal, very open to end-user interpretation.
I’m not going to try to convince you Obama is the first major party presidential candidate of our generation who will actually bring real change to our country. I don’t need to convince you. You already believe it.
Why? Why do we believe in Obama? We don’t even need him to claim to be the candidate of change. We already know he is. Why? How?
One word: NITGOBC: Not In The Good Ol’ Boys Club.
Obama isn’t from old money. Obama is a first-generation American. Obama comes from a broken home. Obama hasn’t followed a path in life laid down by his father, family, or trust fund – he’s built a path of his own. And, thank God, Obama isn’t one more dried up old, rich, white male.
NITGOBC isn’t something you can fake. It isn’t something you need to explain. It’s something that’s built by decades of growth from challenge. And it is those same challenges that have built Obama into the leader he is today that we now see and feel acting on us, our generation, and our country – building her into the America she will be tomorrow. That’s why we believe in Obama.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
Vote Obama, President of the US of A. Change we DO believe in.
I hate to tell you this … well, not really … Obama isn’t our first president who is not from old money.
Obama has been president for 2 months and has already spent roughly $180 billion more than the war we have been in for six years; Sounds like the same ol same ol to me.
Evidently you don’t understand the Electoral College; Obama didn’t take a popular vote landslide; he took an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College.
Obama is not a popular president. Obama has nothing to offer and now we are all going to suffer because people like you fell in to his rhetoric. I do not mean to hurl personal attacks at you but your whole article has no real substance.
People in America voted for Obama because they were afraid of be labeled racist. According to the US Census Bureau in 2007 there were only 12.8% Black people in America . The Cnsus Burea considers black to be “Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as “Black, African Am., or Negro,”or provide written entries such as African American, Afro American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian .”
So, even if every single black man, woman, and child in America voted for Obama it wouldn’t have made a difference.
Obama was voted in by guilty white voters (who make up 80%). It had nothing to do with his upbringing (which was by rich white grandparents – his grandmother was a bank vice-president).