What America saw this morning: Hope ***GRAPHICS HEAVY (but worth it)***

[jefferson_dem]

What America saw this morning: Hope
By Sam Graham-Felsen - Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm EST

Barack Obama's victory last night was nothing short of historic. Here are some of the front pages from newspapers around the country.
























---> http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/ObamaHQFeature/CCqB

[avaistheone1]

1. Good someone make a big graphic of what change Obama is going to bring?

He seems to be capitalizing on the theme Change, but he never gives us a damn thing to hang on to?

We were happy talked into NAFTA. We were happy talked into deregulation. We were happy talked into bad mortgages. I don't want to be happy talked into a candidate who I have no idea about what change if any he is going to bring.

I'm tired of the sizzle Obama, deliver the steak!

[jefferson_dem]

2. Look and listen.

Here's a good place to start -- http://www.barackobama.com/issues/.

Sweet avatar by the way. ;)

[babylonsister]

4. Quit yer bitching and go google; better yet, contribute to DU and you'll

be able to do endless searches here to answer your questions.

[sandnsea]

5. Here

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3. Hope for what? What does Obama keep wanting me to hope for?

Might as well be Wish. Or Magic.

For what concrete things does this hope apply?

Anybody?

[babylonsister]

7. If you want an answer in a soundbite, it ain't gonna happen.

How about hope that the status quo will no longer apply? Hope that we can repair relations with the rest of the world? Hope that we'd have someone to be proud of instead of someone hated by the rest of the world? Hope that there might be an end to this illegal occupation? You could learn a lot by reading yourself:

http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/

[Catch22Dem]

8. see above (n/t)

[jefferson_dem]

9. Envious because your candidate is forced to unfurl a new slogan every time Bill changes his socks?

Undecided: Hillary keeps shifting slogans
By: Ben Smith
January 3, 2008 11:31 AM EST

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign began with an invitation to “chat” — “Let the conversation begin,” she said in an informal announcement video. It’s ending with a clunker, as she tours Iowa under the rubric, “Big Challenges, Real Solutions: Time to Pick a President.”

One thing she hasn’t found along the way: a catchy slogan.

Instead, Clinton has left behind a rubble of themes adopted and abandoned: At first, she was “renew the promise of America.” Then, she was “In to Win.” She was “Working for Change, Working for You.” She offered not just “strength and experience” but also “the strength and experience to make change happen” and “the change we need.” She’s “the Hillary I know,” who will “turn up the heat...turn America around.” In the closing days of the race, she started offering a "new beginning."

The shifting, carefully measured words reflect some of the strengths of her campaign but some of its most visible weaknesses. They’re the product of years of meticulous polling, layers of advisers, and evidence of a detailed understanding of what Iowans and Americans want to hear. But they also reflect more perspiration than inspiration. And they don’t have a beat you can dance to.

As Iowans prepare to caucus Thursday, Clinton’s serial sloganeering is also another window into the contrasts caucus-goers may draw between her and Barack Obama.

His chant of “fired up…ready to go” proved infectious enough that it even worked its way into Clinton’s stump speech here in Eastern Iowa Wednesday.

Both candidates offer their share of airy, abstract themes. Clinton’s issue is that, if anything, she has too many of them.

While Obama offers sweeping and perhaps unpredictable change, she offers change in a more familiar, 1990s version: change along with “experience+strength,” as a campaign banner reads, merged in the mantra of “the strength and experience to make change happen.”

The most durable of her slogans — “Ready for change, ready to lead” – isn’t exactly on everyone’s lips.

But it captures her central message, seeking to blend her main political asset — the perception that she’s the candidate of experience — with Obama’s main weakness, the perception that he’s inexperienced and unready.

(Obama’s slogan, meanwhile, is a shot back across her bows: “Change we can believe in.”)

At the extremes of Clinton’s search for a slogan is one that was dropped with record speed, and another that proved too catchy.

The former was also a short-lived call-and-response line on the model of Obama’s “Fired up… ready to go” chants. At the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Des Moines, Clinton asked her supporters what Democrats would do in response to a litany of Republican misdeeds.

“Turn up the heat!” they chanted in response to each one, waving new yellow and green signs with those words printed on them.

The call for partisan energy produced one memorably wooden exchange:

Clinton: "When the Republicans turn over our energy policy to the oil companies and deny global warming, what do we do?"

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http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3F758629-3048-5C12-00F9C097585B56CE

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13. Just wondering why people that scream slogans at the top of their lungs have trouble defining them.

You might as well be saying cross your fingers - it means as much as hope.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Please note.....

"For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.

Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the young woman in Cedar Rapids who works the night shift after a full day of college and still can't afford health care for a sister who's ill. A young woman who still believes that this country will give her the chance to live out her dreams.

Hope is what I heard in the voice of the New Hampshire woman who told me that she hasn't been able to breathe since her nephew left for Iraq. Who still goes to bed each night praying for his safe return.

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire. What led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation. What led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause.

Hope -- hope is what led me here today. With a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.- Barack Obama, January 3, 2007
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usobam0105-transcript,0,7073760.story?page=2
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If you don't understand this concept, you are "hope"less. :shrug:

[babylonsister]

14. FC, this needs its own thread for everyone questioning what

Obama's message of hope is.

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15. So hope is whatever you want it to be. Great marketing.

Well, I hope for a president and a congress with some concrete plans to fix the mess bushco got us into, to really help the people of this country, rather than a pretty balloon with Hallmark words painted on them.

I think it might be called substance.

[FrenchieCat]

16. Sometimes Profound meanings

are hard for some to get. Not everyone is blessed with that kind of understanding.

Hope you find that concrete plans that you are looking for. Hope they don't just end up sitting in a drawer somewhere. That would be sad!

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17. Hope a leader emerges with concrete plans. It ain't me.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

6. Hope~ the birthplace of Bill and Huckabee

That's the first thing I thought of with your header. B-)

[Hekate]

11. Zowie! Can you show the front page from the Honolulu Star Bulletin? (link)

http://starbulletin.com/2008/01/04/news/story01.html

Barack Obama still has strong ties to his (my) home state, from what I hear -- and Rep. Neil Abercrombie was in Iowa with him.

:bounce:

Hekate

[FlyingSquirrel]

12. I like Obama. He has a very contagious smile. n/t