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Thanks Obama! (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Edit, since folks don't seem to get the joke: Obama's campaign slogan was "Hope"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

thanks dude

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, wasn't Obama's campaign slogan "Yes we can!"

Bill Clinton's was Hope, because his hometown was Hope, Arkansas.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but the Obama "Hope" poster is probably the most famous piece of campaign graphic design in at least 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, I sprawl corrected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

To be honest I think Pelosi had the biggest influence. She related to Biden on a personal level, knew him the longest, always treated him with respect, and voluntarily stepped down from her role as speaker, herself. Being older carries some clout, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I guess it's 2017 again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, like now everyone who wanted this has to donate their max.

Even if it's just to send a message to the donor class that biffing Biden was the right move. $2 or $27.

If you wanted Biden off the ticket, got what you wished for, pony up.

I'll send mine in just for the unity message.

E: if you need the link to donate just check your text spam folders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Genuine question (not from the USA), why was "hope" the campaign slogan?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because 8 years of Dubya / Rumsfeld / Cheney

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Damn I'll need to google all these terms

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Has there been a time or place where more hope was not a good thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well it was "hope and change", but then he went a little light on the change part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Don't worry Mr. President, I'll handle sexy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Kamala Obama

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Obama crushed my generation's hopes. We voted for him to end our foreign wars, crack down on Wall Street, and finally give us universal healthcare. Instead, we got the Heritage Foundation's healthcare policy and...mass surveillance, for some reason. He may have inspired hope in 2008 but he had beaten it out of us by 2014.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't really get the mass surveillance point. The worldwide NSA espionage started under Bush, didn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's a bit more nebulous than that. The Snowden leaks covered a collection or different programs between the NSA and GCHQ which took place over several years. Some of them began under Bush, some of them began under Obama, some of them were expanded under Obama, some of them Obama lied about shutting down...However, there was a huge expansion of American meta data being collected under Obama, even though candidate Obama had condemned Bush's warrentless wire tapping program.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

At least now Biden has all the time in the world to finish off Gaza, especially the children /s right, Tankeez?