Hope and Change? Hype and Blame!

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
5/4/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

GOP campaign to focus on parodying Obama's original campaign pledge

When U.S. President Barack Obama ran as president in 2008, one of his slogans was "hope and change." The Republican National Committee in a head-start against Obama's official campaign kickoff in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday is a special ad campaign denouncing this pledge as "Hype and Blame."

Republicans will call attention to the fact that the president's original pledge to deliver millions of jobs in infrastructure and green energy in Virginia and Ohio has failed to materialize.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The RNC will sell "Hype and Blame 2012" bumper stickers accompanied by digital advertising, a fundraising strategy, radio and TV ads, and opinion pieces in local media.

RNC Chairman Reince Preibus and state party chairmen say they will detail the strategy in a conference call with the media.

Obama along with first lady Michelle will formally launch his reelection campaign this weekend with rallies at the Ohio State University in Columbus and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Republicans will call attention to the fact that the president's original pledge to deliver millions of jobs in infrastructure and green energy in Virginia and Ohio has failed to materialize. Both states are battlegrounds in this year's campaign. Obama won both states four years ago after Republican George W. Bush had carried them in 2000 and 2004.

The Republicans wish to make the election a referendum on Obama's first term, one that they see as an abject failure. The satirical new slogan offers a choice of its own -- Obama 2008 versus Obama 2012.

"He can't talk about his record because his record is full of broken promises, standards that he's made and hasn't kept, and a whole lot of bad policies," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said. "He's out on the campaign trail resorting to the very tactics he campaigned against in 2008."

"The candidate who ran here last time is not the same man we see on the campaign trail today," Republican Party of Virginia chairman Pat Mullins said. "He's been exposed for what he is, a cold, calculating Chicago political operator."

"In Ohio, I think President Obama is going to discover he has a nightmare of an opponent, and that's the 2008 candidate Obama. Everything he promised Ohio, everything he promised to do and promised to be is discarded," Ohio Republican Party chairman Bob Bennett added.

In response, Democrats say that the RNC slogan should be "distort and distract."

"The attacks coming from the RNC and the Romney campaign completely ignore facts, all of which the American people are well aware - President Obama's actions helped save the America auto industry, created over 4 million jobs in the last two years, and strengthened the manufacturing industry," Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Melanie Roussell said. She added that Romney is offering the "same formula that benefited a few, but crashed our economy and punished the middle class."

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abey
1 year ago
The words of Obama & the works of the democrats to the basis of the family structure, the very basis of life will go down in the history engraved in "The Black Book" of dark sentences to fallen people entwined with fallen angels to the Biblical prophecy 'Unto whom is hell created", Just as man was not to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree to the ways of the fallen ones reflected in the ways of the administration, so were in the first place not meant for him, to be forewarned.
Juneau Alaska
1 year ago
Thanks for the clarification vance. -Cheers! ~Mike
Vance
1 year ago
Juneau Alaska mike, Am I against 100% percent what Obama has done?? AAAAHHHH, YES!!! So cutting NASA and science is the ONLY thing that concerns you?? You are not concerned about 88 Million people out of the work force which is Great Depression numbers. You are not concerned that we have a Record low number of new business starts. You are not concerned about the RECORD number of houses Under water?? OR, you are not concerned about the rate of poverty that equates the 1960's?? OR How about Obama shredding the Bill of Rights and stripping the Freedom of Religious practice from the American people??? You are not concerned about gasoline being double the price when Obama took office?? As a result of the cost of energy doubling, costs of grocery bills dramatically increased. Apparently, you must have more money than the rest of us.
Juneau Alaska
1 year ago
vance, thanks for your thoughts. I'm curious, I really am, are you 100% against everything Obama has done in his role as president? I have already offered what I don't like about the Obama Administration (not shutting down the NCCAM). And I'll also add that his reducing the budgets for the National Science Foundation and NASA is another concern of mine. Can you provide one or two things Obama has done that you support as being positive? -Cheers! ~Mike
Rob
1 year ago
It's an easy philosopy to have right now, but it's going to be tough in the next round if Romney get's a shot. I haven't voted Dem in a long time (national races) but will do so if the economy is still in the crapper and/or abortion is still legal. Honestly, I think the economy will improve greatly if the idiots in the house and senate can get their act together and allow businesses to have some sense of stability. Will be curious to see what a Romney adminstration does about abortion. If we are still at status quo, he's fired too.
JoAnn
1 year ago
Vance: Great post to Juneau Alaska. I guess when he is living under communism and is looking for his next meal, and running to all of us who are prepared for the coming atrocities, for his next meal, he'll wake up. God bless.
judy
1 year ago
YEAAAH Rob! Oh my, My emotions are showing? No. I am Just very pleased at your new found philosophy. And, I thank you for sharing your post w/everyone. Peace...
Vance
1 year ago
Juneau Alaska, I guess I should have called myself New York, New York instead of my name. Of course you're going to vote for Obama because he represents you well. Like you, he hates Christianity and Christian culture. He supports anti-Christian behavior such as Sodomy, Homosexual Marriage, Abortion, Euthanasia, Infanticide, and the Constitution of the United States. Obama has racked up a 6 Trillion dollar deficit with highest number of people out of the workforce since WWII. Yes, he's your guy.
Juneau Alaska
1 year ago
JoAnn, like I said, I seldom talk politics in forums as I find people sometimes get too emotional. I'm not very good at that. I completed a 100 question survey a while back that was supposed to help me decide who best represented my concerns. Huntsman and Obama were the top picks while Romney was third. Of course Huntsman is out. I'm still voting Obama (unless something drastic changes before November) for the Big Job, and I will do my best as a citizen to effect change locally. Cheers! ~Mike
Theresa
1 year ago
I agree with Rob: The "bottom line," in Presidential and Congressional Elections at this point in time is, first and foremost, human life and the Family. The "Party" is secondary to this. If we kill innocent human life--there's nothing left to be concerned about.... As the Family goes--so goes society. We must get our priorities in proper order! Next would be the Economy. One thing I think we have to be careful of is looking to the government for the solutions to our problems, including financial.... Isn't it funny (or, rather, is it?), how we send our money to the federal government (via taxes); then they take a chunk of "administrative costs" out of it..., and send it back to us in response to our (the state, or our individual) application for federal funding! But the more we look to the federal government to provide for us--the more beholden we become to the government and surrender our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! Also, remember the Gospel about the woman who washed the feet of Jesus and Jesus' response to the apostle who spoke about the waste, considering that that the money could have been given to the poor? And remember what Jesus said to the soldiers? ("Be content with your pay.") Greed and envy is another problem we have....The poor do indeed need our help, but the problems they need help with are not necessarily all financial--and certainly, we shouldn't look to the government to support them! There's an awful lot that needs to be "changed" in our government today, but it's not the "change" Pres. Obama wants to make! If we get 4 more years with him, no one will recognize the USA, we won't recognize our Country for the Founding Principles we held dear for over 200 years! We need to get them back!

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