In Case You Forget “Why”

9:46 am EST September 18th, 2008 | News | 6 Comments

In the middle of the day to day battle and the media war, you gotta remember “why”.

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6 Responses to “In Case You Forget “Why””

  1. Dennis says:
    September 18, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Hey, OW, you totally read my mind. I was beginning to wonder when we might see something positive about Barack Obama again. Something exemplifying the way he always said he’d run his campaign.

  2. Parthenon says:
    September 18, 2008 at 10:42 am

    My favorite parts – the sun rising on El Cap (if you haven’t gone, go!) and the black college-aged girl phone canvassing beside the elderly white woman.

  3. Jaim says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:14 am

    Because I love my country, and unfortunately the Republican Party has done their best to ruin it over the past eight years. Because I believe in fairness and working hard to make a better life for myself and for others. Because I’ve had great opportunities to experience life as an American, and my party and my candidate want to make this opportunity available to everyone else.

    And, because Bush II turned my country into a laughingstock for the past decade, and as a proud American, I want my country to be thought of as the best in the world again. Barack Obama can make this happen, and Johnathan Sydney McCain the III and his seven-plus mansions can’t.

    Kind of a rant, I realize, but that’s why we’re going to make Barack our next US president. That’s why America is about the future and not the past.

  4. Brian G. Lewandowski says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Thanks for putting that up there. It was good to feel that way again!

    Oddly, I posted a piece to day to my website and local papers as to why I am voting for Obama:

    http://midlifecrisisguy.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/why-i-am-voting-for-obama/

  5. gruntled atheist says:
    September 18, 2008 at 11:48 am

    What Jaim said, plus I have grandkids. Great video.

  6. anotherbozo says:
    September 18, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Maybe it’s the “cosmopolitan elitist” in me, but I always thought “Hope” and “Change” were weak slogans. Hope is a passive, wistful-sounding emotion, and “change”–to what?–is too damn vague. OK, maybe my alternatives–”Determination!” and “Back from Fascism!” don’t have much to recommend them, either. I liked the phrase from Obama’s acceptance speech, “Our country is better than this.” Would have loved to hear that repeated. But not punchy enough for small signs, I guess.

    Finally if it rallies the people featured in this ad, “Spaghetti” as a slogan would be fine. Doesn’t matter.

    Even though Obama used it in his race (I think) for the state senate, “Yes We Can” still sounds good. Has that take-the-fortress feel to it. Truth and justice are always storming the barricades, it seems.

    Hard to watch this ad without choking up. We just might win this, guys.