Video: Hope ‘n change, 1976 edition
posted at 3:56 pm on June 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
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In which a nation reeling from years of war and scandal turns its back on the GOP and its eyes towards a fresh-faced progressive just oozing good vibes. Why, even the final shot here looks familiar. In fairness, though, thanks to his embarrassing pandering on Trinity, the flag pin, the preparations/preconditions kabuki, and the meeting with Petraeus, I’m starting to detect a reassuring pragmatic Clintonian streak in Obama. Jimbo will lay a wreath on Arafat’s grave, call Israel an apartheid state, and go in for the bro-grab with Hamas and never think twice. Obama may or may not be similarly inclined, but even on an issue like race where he’s got Absolute Moral Authority to spare, electoral realities weighed heavily enough on him that he didn’t speak up until Wrightgate forced him to. That’s why I’m (cautiously) optimistic that he’s going to take Sullivan’s advice and start inching away from the knee-jerk pessimism about the war that characterized his predictions about the surge. Not because he thinks victory is important, but because the public might start to. And Barack Obama, for all his vaunted insight about Iraq, isn’t about to roll the dice by following his own judgment instead of theirs the way Bush has. Click the image to watch.
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Yup. We saw this in 1976 and 1992…
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM
The man that brought fundamental Islam to full bloom…..
El Jimmah the Peanut Warrior.
Hening on June 2, 2008 at 4:04 PM
You’ve got to admit, Jimmuh really did “change” things when he was president.
He handed Iran to the islamic lunatics. That was a change.
Cicero43 on June 2, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Or in this case, peanut oil.
manwithblackhat on June 2, 2008 at 4:05 PM
But he’s doing the staring-off-into-the-future pose. THE FUTURE, PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Chuck Schick on June 2, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I had a friend mention last night how narcissistic and arrogant Obama is in his zeal to frame any and all discussions in his terms, setting limits on what can and cannot be discussed. A total disregard for the fact that it is the citizens of the USA that are supposed to be deciding who a candidate will in fact be.
bbz123 on June 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Wine, cheese, and a dash of malaise.
Limerick on June 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM
The Carter administration also covered up John Kerry’s aparently less-than-honorable discharge:
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Rush Limbaugh said today that if Obama is elected it would be “Carter’s second term.”
Brat on June 2, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Very nice.
How about this:
Whine, Cheesy smile, and a dash of malaise.
Only vinegar for your salad…oil shortage.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Every time I hear the mantra that GWB is the “worst president ever” I always have the trump card with Jimmy.
trubble on June 2, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I came up with a new slogan for Obama:
Look at that; At they don’t even have the decency to pay me for all of these great slogans.
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(BTW, I can’t seem to be able to leave a trackback, though I have my blog set to autotrackback. Probably has something to do with incessant posting.)
amerpundit on June 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Not only is “Carter’s second term” an understatement, it’s a very effective comeback to Obama saying McCain would be “a third Bush term”.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM
That’s always one thing I can rely on with the modern Democrats. They want to be loved so they will say and do anything. Thus, you can count on them to capitulate on issues and sometimes that it works in conservative favor. However, count on the Daily Kos, MoveOn.org to get steamed when Obama starts maneuvering. They never want to concede on ANY issue.
terryannonline on June 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Carter was never a Community Organizer™. BO’08
mred on June 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Obama will carry on the long democratic tradition of appeasing the enemies of our nation. He is either naive or just plain lying in most of the statements that he makes concerning our national security.
volsense on June 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Thankfully, the real change came when Reagan defeated Jimmah in 1980!
Brat on June 2, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Brat on June 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
The Obama Version
RushBaby on June 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Carter and Obama have something else in common…
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
We couldn’t have 22% mortgages again.™. BO’08
Now way that unemployment will be 12% again.™. BO’08
Never will inflation hit 13% again. ™. BO’08
Islamic radical will never take over a friendly government again. ™. BO’08
jukin on June 2, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Well Olie,it was a fine mess last time,we ain’t
votin for no candidate,who says hope and change is
around the corner,again!!! haha. :)
But on the bright side,if Iranians decide to take
American Hostages again,Barack will be the man to
deal with,after all,he said he would like to TALK!
canopfor on June 2, 2008 at 4:24 PM
A Leader For A Change
Change You Can Believe In
What’s the difference?
rockmom on June 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Just let Obambi get elected with a Democrat majority in Congress, and you can forget about getting a mortgage at ANY price. Buy your house now while you can, folks.
rockmom on June 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM
The difference between Carter and Obama is that Obama is running basically as a bi-coastal candidate with his main fanatical supporters on the far left of the Democratic Party. Carter’s there now, but in 1976 he was the candidate of the moderate wing of the Democratic Party, and was really put over the top by the voters in what would today be considered the Red States.
The liberal Democrats on the coasts eventually went along with the nomination under the idea that this “new” Southern Democrat could win back the states they had lost to the Republicans in 1964 and ‘72 and to Wallace in 1968, but it was really, really hard for them to maintain their false front about what they really thought of the Plains, Ga., roots of Carter, his family and the people who lived there, never mind the fact if it wasn’t for that background, he never would have gotten elected. Obama may be as ill-prepared for the presidency as Jimmy was, but his campaign seems to think that running on a model of David Dinkins’ “gorgeous mosiac” campaign for mayor of New York in 1989 will appeal to enough white liberal guilt on both coasts (under the belief that Barack’s election will herald the start of a new epoch of Democratic control of government) that they can flip a big middle finger to the middle of the country and states won by Carter in ‘76 and then by Clinton 16 years later.
jon1979 on June 2, 2008 at 4:33 PM
He practices the “look of the future” but he sees nothing. One has to have vision, judgment, wisdom, experience to see, especially in a job of that caliber. It’s all a fraud.
I’ve commented here that none of the 3 will change much in regards to the war, much to the chagrin of the far lefties, the obsessed fluff crowd.
Should such emptiness fool enough lemmings to win, which I doubt very much, he’d learn on hour one on the job, what all of us, media included, don’t know.
Wake up America, before a combination of socialism/Marxism gets a hold of your pockets and your lives, including your liberties/freedoms.
Entelechy on June 2, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Does Obama also have a brother that we can name a beer after?
Rick on June 2, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Carter is a bitter looser ars, who’s never forgiven America for showing him the finger and the door in 1980.
America should not gratify him with a repeat, of much worse consequences, at such a critical time.
Entelechy on June 2, 2008 at 4:37 PM
That’s awesome. Especially since the left loves to paint McCain as “Bush’s third term.”
Throw their own s*it back in their faces.
wise_man on June 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Everybody’s mesmerized by the words “hope” and “change”
Rick on June 2, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Yep, and Obama will do the same thing to Iraq and Israel (there might be a bit more resistance there). Who says that history can never be repeated.
docdave on June 2, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Lenin’s famous words “Learn, learn, learn”.
Entelechy on June 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Rush Limbaugh also said today that we have to start thinking seriously about what an Obama cabinet/administration would look like. Sorry to give you all nightmares.
Rush also opined that the Pfleger kerfuffle was set up intentionally to give Barry a way out of TUCofC.
Buy Danish on June 2, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Yeah, I want to go back to the gas lines, gas only bought on every other day depending on your license plate number, 20 percent interest on loans, allowing our soldiers to be imprisoned, attempting foolish rescues with worn out military equipment from cutting the military budget, running from our enemies…yeah, those were the good ol, liberal, pacifist, democrat days of yore…that was a change.
right2bright on June 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Ok, here’s about the only nice thing I can say about Carter…in 1976 at least he won over 50% of the popular vote (50.1%), which is more than Clinton (43.0% and 49.2%), Gore (48.4%), or Kerry (48.3%) got.
I know that Obama has the racist vote (people who vote based on the color of his skin, not the content of his character) wrapped up, but I really don’t see how he can win the general unless there is a third party candidate that splits conservatives (as Ross Perot did in both 1992 and 1996).
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Exactly. Do any of the lemmings voting for “change” understand what the result of that change would look like?
I think “Carter’s second term” is the best way to paint a picture of that “change”. We should repeat that phrase to liberals ad nauseum.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Yeah, only I’ll take Rosalynn Carter over Michelle Heinz Obama any day.
labrat on June 2, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Here’s one:
“The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy .. He converted to Islam.”
-Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father
labrat on June 2, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Yes, but so many of the youth have no idea of the suffering middle class America had during those times.
The burden fell on the middle class. The moment he put price controls on gas, gas became a scarcity. Thousand of commuters were stranded without gas. Sometimes waiting hours, or even waiting for the fuel truck to show up to ration to that station gas. And the gas stations were limited of how much gas, to how much they historically sold. Inflation ran amok…homes couldn’t be sold or bought, not because of over pricing or over inventory, but 18% (or more) interest rates. Stagflation (look it up), high unemployment and then this great “malaise speech”.
Almost immediately after the speech he asked for the resignation of all of his cabinet members…all of them. His administration was falling apart during the worst economic times since the depression…and our soldiers were imprisoned by a two-bit dictator (or as Obama would say, by a country too small to worry about).
So much more, so much more…Obama the second term of Carter indeed.
right2bright on June 2, 2008 at 6:17 PM
The “Hope ‘n’ Change Express” may still be chuggin’ along, but it ain’t nothin’ new…read Eric Hoffer’s book “The True Believer”…from 1951!!!
Lockstein13 on June 2, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Well, guess that precludes having a beer named after him.
Sekhmet on June 2, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Isn’t he the guy who ‘Reunited the Country’ by bringing the draft dodgers home?
On his first day in office?
TimBuk3 on June 2, 2008 at 7:03 PM
It’s hopeless. Like lambs to the slaughter,lemmings and sheep will happily run to their demise. (sigh)
gzelmiami on June 2, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Another Leader for a CHANGE ad
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Jimmy Carter Says YES, JIMMY CARTER SAYS YES
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We Can Change it!America is falling apart! His Reagan shoots from the hip ad and his Carter will improve the economy
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And More CHANGE!
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OH Yeah!! Jimmy Carter Says YES, Jimmy Carter Says YES sing it bro! Can Government be honest be honest?? Jimmy Carter says Yes! He had to quote ole Jimbo rather than have the video like the new Obama Yes we can clip. But hey for the 70’s it wasn’t bad. I think I like this version better than the first version posted above.
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And he can fix our energy problem too!
USBB on June 2, 2008 at 7:10 PM
That last post didn’t make sense ’cause lambs don’t go happily. They have the sense of the impending.But you’s (y’all) get the point.
gzelmiami on June 2, 2008 at 7:16 PM
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY POST???
LET ME TRY AGAIN.
JIMMY CARTER SAYS YES! JIMMY CARTER SAYS YES! Sing it Brian! He wasn’t able to edit in video of Carter, it was after all the 70’s, so he just had to quote him.
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And this version is nice too! Can government be honest? Jimmy Carter says yes! He has spoken Yes! I think this is the original recording, but I like the guy withe Krammer hair in the other one and the old guy in this one.
USBB on June 2, 2008 at 7:22 PM
This needs to be incorporated into a McCain ad soon.
29Victor on June 2, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Exactly. It’s really not hard to understand what Obama’s all about when you look at what he himself has said.
Louis Farrakhan + Rev. Wright + William Ayers + Tony Rezko + George Soros + Zbigniew Brzezinski + Jimmy Carter + the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz (”if he only had a brain”)
= Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 11:03 PM
In my opinion, it appears that…
Every Democrat president since JFK has been a “Democratic Socialist” (Communist) and a traitor to this country.
LBJ. Carter. Clinton.
Traitors one and all.
And Barack and Hillary are no better.
McCain is only marginally better. But he would still champion the Marxist goals of amnesty and carbon taxes.
Red Pill on June 2, 2008 at 11:09 PM
If it gets done, we will have to do it out here in cyberspace. And then McCain can throw us under the bus after we try to help him.
USBB on June 3, 2008 at 9:43 AM
True dat.
McCain considers most of us “Agents of Intolerance”.
Red Pill on June 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM
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