Let’s Change this Change Theme
January 8th, 2008 by Scott
So who else is sick of every candidate calling for “change.” It seems as if the shallow slogans of most of the presidential candidates have now not only become more shallow, but they are all “change.”
For anyone who has been under a rock for the last few weeks, it seems that most every candidate has been campaigning on “change.” Obama was campaigning on change. Then Hillary. Now McCain, Huckabee and many others are saying they are the candidate of change.
Sigh.
This is the problem I had during the last election and the reason the Republicans lost some seats. No one was telling us specifics of what they would do.
Remember back when Sen. Kerry said he was against the war in Iraq (this was after he was for the war he was against)? Kerry kept saying he would fight a “smarter” war. Huh? Give us some specific examples. Tell us exactly where YOU stand. Tell us exactly what YOU plan to do to solve these problems you claim are so common.
Unfortunately, this has become a campaign based entirely on emotion, and real messages and ideas have been lost in the “I’m for change” theme.
I miss the days when candidates would lay out specific ideas and mandates that they want to promote. The days when each candidate would debate the other on their ideas, not on how much money they have raised or how their campaign is negative. Let’s get back on message so we KNOW who we are electing, so we KNOW for what they stand, not just how they make us “feel.”
What would our founding fathers say?
