[Need4Truth]

President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign

is becoming a national joke (or worse).

[Oratam]

President Obama's message of hope and change . . . .

I'm amazed at how many are able to utter that phrase, or one like it, with a straight face. On the bright side, it serves as a useful litmus test for politicians and pundits, et al.