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This is Too Easy

 

Sometimes I feel like I am shooting the proverbial ducks in the proverbial barrel.

Everyone knows what Barack Obama’s campaign slogan was in 2008. No one seems to know what it will be for 2012.   The White House has been cycling through catchphrases since announcing his reelection bid a year ago: Winning the Future, We Can’t Wait, An America Built to Last, An Economy Built to Last, A Fair Shot.

They seem to be looking for one to resonate — and the constant unveiling of new ones suggests that so far, none of them have. To communications experts, the kaleidoscope of slogans is the latest reflection of the difficulties finding and marketing a message that Obama has faced almost since his inauguration — another challenge that came with the shift from insurgent outsider to sitting president.   “He’s all over the place,” said Bruce I. Newman, the Bill Clinton brand-messaging adviser whose “Bridge to the 21st Century” helped define Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign.

Go here, to Politico to read the rest.  Hmmm, a campaign slogan for the Obama campaign.  You’re Better Off Than You Were During The Black Death!  Obama:  In Your Heart You Know He’s Left!  More Nobel Peace Prizes Than Thou!  Two Arugula In Every Pot!  Obama:  Saving Us From A Biden Administration For Four Years!    Obama:  He Kept Us Out of Andorra!  Showing the Bishops Who’s Boss!  Michele Is Proud Of Him And So Are We!  Less Miserable Days Are Soon To Be Here Again!  If At First Obama Didn’t Succeed, Give Him Another Four Years!  Obama And Occupy, Too!  Light Bearer At Work!  Get On The Bus And Not Under It!

I am sure the talented wordsmiths among our contributors, commenters and readers can come up with a few other suggestions.

 

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Don the Kiwi
Don the Kiwi
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 5:48am

“i PROMISED YOU CHANGE – AND I DELIVERED. LETS BRING IT HOME.'”

or something as equally mindless. They’ll swallow it – after all they did last time. 🙂

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 5:52am

Instapundit suggested he choose, “We Can Do Better!” before the GOP copyrights it.

Here’s my suggestion: “Four More Years! America Isn’t Dead Yet.”

thelarryd
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 6:43am

Obama/Biden 2012: An America Built For Last Place
Obama/Biden 2012: Because Iran Needs Nukes
Obama 2012: You Voted For Me in ’08 To Prove You Weren’t Racist; Vote For Me Again To Prove You’re Still Not Racist
Obama/Biden 2012: Because There’s Still Too Much Freedom
Obama/Biden 2012: Give Me Flexibility
Obama/Biden 2012: Just Do It!
Obama/Biden 2012: Because It Just Might Be Your Last Chance To Vote

Donald – he only needs to fool just enough people one more time.

Phillip
Phillip
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 7:42am

“Hope that change you have left pays the bills”

“Because Communism has never really been tried”

“Because the waters are still rising”

RL
RL
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 8:37am

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die leaving the bill for your children to pick up.

Thos. Collins
Thos. Collins
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 9:37am

A Fair Shot — no, sounds like those gun nuts.

A Fair Deal! It’s been used before? Really.

A NEW Deal! That one too. Huh. Who knew.

A new hand, a new deck, a new game, let’s make a new deal — hey, I’m thinking here! Do you have something to contribute?

Maybe, let’s try the slots!

Paul D.
Paul D.
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 10:35am

“Its my last election! 100% More flexibility!”

RL
RL
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 10:37am

Who better to protect and defend the Constitution than a Constitutional scholar?

RL
RL
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 10:42am

Ya know, the former governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm’s reelection exclamation would be spot on too. “In five years, you’ll be blown away!”

c matt
c matt
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 10:54am

Keep Moving Forward

It’s the perfect slogan. Simple, for the simple minds; sound bitish-y; pretty much devoid of content while sounding positive; implies progress was made, but does not disclose to what we are moving forward; offers abilituy to point to vague accomplishments; cultural tie-in to cute, upbeat animated film.

anzlyne
anzlyne
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 11:30am

yes c matt– I thought right away of “Lean Forward” nbc is using that —
and could just go ahead and give that to him with their other gifts to his re-election effort

Mary De Voe
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 12:00pm

“Trust Me”.
“Keep warm and well fed”.
I have talked to many people and their ignorance is bulletproof. Other people have told me that Obama muffed the oath of office to avoid giving credence to our Constitution.

Gary Fischer
Gary Fischer
Monday, April 9, AD 2012 11:21pm

We’re almost there … we can’t quit before it’s over!

S. Murphy
S. Murphy
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 1:41am

” Obama-Biden 2012 — Against Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion!
(Your DHS is watching you!)”

S. Murphy
S. Murphy
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 1:53am

“The Socialist ideal has not been tried & found wanting — it’s been found difficult and left untried.”

“Tradition is the Democracy of the dead — but Chicago is MUCH more Democratic than that!”*

*in fairness, I think some of his haste to get to the national level was about getting out of Chicago and Illinois politics, before he got trapped at that level by having to be a crook to be functional at all.

Mary De Voe — iirc, it was Justice Roberts who muffed the oath. But O is going to do what he’s gonna do – and believes is RIGHT, and therefore must be [able to be made] Constitutional somehow – without resorting childish games on the order of crossed fingers.

GHU
GHU
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 9:02am

How about….
” The CHANGE will be Complete!” or
” You Won’t Believe What’s Coming!” or

God help us all if Obama gets back in!

Mary De Voe
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 6:48pm

Thank you. S. Murphy. Some good sense in Justice Roberts just did not want Obama sworn in as Chief Executive, or was it Obama’s evil beginning to bring us all down?

Mary De Voe
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 6:53pm

anzlyne says:
Monday, April 9, 2012 A.D. at 11:30am
yes c matt– I thought right away of “Lean Forward” nbc is using that –
and could just go ahead and give that to him with their other gifts to his re-election effort
nbc needs to spell correctly. It is LIEN FORWARD

anzlyne
anzlyne
Tuesday, April 10, AD 2012 6:57pm

love it– chortling –
Laughing Out Loud really

S. Murphy
S. Murphy
Wednesday, April 11, AD 2012 9:25am

Mary DeVoe: I think it was just a mistake… Also, Obama’s not evil. His views on abortion support evil, but he’s not reveling in the idea of piles of tiny dead bodies. He thinks he’s protecting women from unjustified suffering. He thinks he’s protecting freedom. He really means it. I went to college at the University of Chicago. Not all the faculty were or are that aggressively pro-abortion, but most of them are Lakefront Liberals; and they all think they’re truly concerned (and most of them really are) about the poor on the South Side; and most of them believe what their social set believe about ‘reproductive freedom.’ Not all – St Thomas the Apostle Parish had a good Respect Life group when I was there (20 years ago) – and not all South Side priests are Fr Pfleger, either.

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