“Change we can believe in”

Change we can believe in.  That’s what most of the country was sold on.  Sold on “hope”.  What a great drug.

Of course, nothing at all like the messages offered in 1992.  Here’s Bill Clinton offering his promise of change:

What’s there to say? It’s not enough to say Obama’s doing all he can. The short answer is that he’s answering to his most powerful critics — the banks, the elite, the people with money. The long answer is that everyone else doesn’t care enough to hold him and Congress accountable to what’s going on in this country: namely, the gradual impoverishment of many for the benefit of the few.

Let’s put it this way: jobs are impossible to find, more Americans are going hungry than ever before, and now Obama is talking about a “double-dip” recession.

And on the Republican side, all we hear about is Sarah Palin.  This is democracy — the educated but captive soldier of the banks on the one side; and the clown on the other.

Change we can believe in:  a motto for something very different.  Something local, something powerful, something really meaningful.  Whatever it’s shape, it will need to be positive.  There is too much greed running the country into the ground as it is.

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