Comments on: In Case You Forget “Why” http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: anotherbozo http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115900 anotherbozo Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:25:17 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115900 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. 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.

]]> By: gruntled atheist http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115890 gruntled atheist Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:48:07 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115890 What Jaim said, plus I have grandkids. Great video. What Jaim said, plus I have grandkids. Great video.

]]> By: Brian G. Lewandowski http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115874 Brian G. Lewandowski Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:26:31 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115874 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/ 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/

]]> By: Jaim http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115865 Jaim Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:14:12 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115865 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. 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.

]]> By: Parthenon http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115859 Parthenon Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:42:27 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115859 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. 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.

]]> By: Dennis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/18/in-case-you-forget-why/#comment-115850 Dennis Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=9276#comment-115850 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 <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/18/the-new-digital-brownshirts/" rel="nofollow"> always said</a> he'd run his campaign. 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.

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