We Are the Hopeychange!

Mark Steyn at his best:

Thus, in 2008, Barack Obama, being the preferred choice of America's youth, was, by definition, the candidate of progress and the future. In humdrum reality, his idea of the future doesn't seem to be any more futuristic than the pre-Thatcher statist wasteland of Britain in the Seventies, but that didn't stop the massed ranks of fresh-faced youth chanting "We are the Hopeychange!" in adoring if glassy-eyed unison behind him at every campaign rally. Four years later, half of recent graduates can't find full-time employment; Americans' college debt is now larger than credit card debt; the number of young people with summer jobs is at a record low; and men in their late twenties and early thirties trudge upstairs every night to the same bedroom in which they slept as a kindergartner.

And that's before they're permanently buried by interest payments on the multitrillion-dollar debt and unfunded liabilities from Medicare. Yet in 2012 the rubes will still vote for Obama and be congratulated by the media for doing so. Because to be young is to vote for hope and change.

He goes on to talk about the youth in the “Arabian Spring” – read the whole thing...

Preserving Hope...

I found this satirical take on Obama's performance on, of all places, the Huffington Post.  Four years ago, you could depend on the Huffington Post for completely unadulterated Obama adoration.  These days?  Not so much...

My level of hope is enhanced :-)

Update: Hope and Change...

One of the innumerable Hope and Change® promises of The One was that he would reduce the pernicious influence of lobbyists in Washington, most famously by not allowing lobbyists to hold positions in his administration. 

So how's that working out?

Well, by the last count I saw there are 35 former lobbyists (including three Cabinet members) in the Obama administration – more than in any previous President's administration.  And now we learn that lobbyists' salaries are higher than they've ever been.  Somehow we doubt that lobbyists' salaries have gone up because their influence has gone down...

Lobbyists: 1  Hope and Change: 0