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Bob Schieffer Asks Obama Senior Adviser Gibbs 'Whatever Happened to Hope and Change?'
News Buster.com ^ | May 27, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 05/27/2012 4:35:08 PM PDT by Kaslin

Barack Obama's senior campaign adviser Robert Gibbs certainly didn't expect this question when he agreed to go on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.

Right out of the gate host Bob Schieffer pressed his guest about all the negative ads the President's campaign is running until he finally asked, "Whatever happened to hope and change?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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BOB SCHIEFFER: You know one of the refreshing changes when, when the President was elected, he talked about hope and change. Whatever happened to hope and change? Now, it seems he is just coming right out of the box with these old-fashioned negative ads that all campaigns seem to think are the basis of all campaigns now.


Granted this is an isolated incident, but isn't it refreshing to see a liberal media member like Schieffer actually ask one of the President's top advisers such a question?

Might we see more of this in the coming months, or was this the kind of honesty you only get on a long holiday weekend when very few people are anywhere near a television set?

On the other hand, if folks like Schieffer rather than buying into and disseminating candidate Obama's bogus hope and change mantra would have grilled the junior senator in 2008 about what his actual plan was as well as his qualifications for seeing it implemented, maybe the Face the Nation host wouldn't be asking this question today?

Hmmm.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; hopeychangey; obama

1 posted on 05/27/2012 4:35:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

President Purple Lips is in deep doo-doo. I HOPE there is Change.


2 posted on 05/27/2012 4:36:53 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

Bob, you genius, it never was. It was empty words, and perception created by you in the MSM, and a gullible public.


3 posted on 05/27/2012 4:39:09 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: Kaslin

You know one of the refreshing changes when, when the President was elected, he talked about hope and change.


I’m sorry, but what exactly IS “refreshing” to merely talk about hope and change? As if Obama invented those words.


4 posted on 05/27/2012 4:42:01 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

The masses have short memories. Clinton was the Man from Hope, and “It’s Time for a Change”.


5 posted on 05/27/2012 4:43:45 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: Kaslin

6 posted on 05/27/2012 4:45:39 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Kaslin

I kinda wanted to hear Heir Gibbs answer, but its not good to have blood shooting out of my eyes on memorial weekend.
Better not to know.


7 posted on 05/27/2012 5:08:05 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Santorum...the only Conservative in the race.)
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To: Dallas59

Obama doing an impression of Stan Laurel! Thanks for posting it!


8 posted on 05/27/2012 5:23:22 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (Non-compliant, not govt-issued, and not voting for Romney.)
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To: JohnD9207

I have to agree. Now...if it was Carney, I’d have to take a listen.

He is the comic relief of this administration. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can tell the huge whoppers he tells with such a straight face. He must be botox enhanced.


9 posted on 05/27/2012 5:27:23 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Lady Lucky

Or Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden after being backed into a corner by his TV wife......Hammina-hammina-hammina!


10 posted on 05/27/2012 5:32:57 PM PDT by Tucker39 ( Psa 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our salvation.KJV)
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To: Kaslin

———Right out of the gate host Bob Schieffer pressed his guest about all the negative ads the President’s campaign is running until he finally asked, “Whatever happened to hope and change?”-——

I think Schieffer was projecting a little bit.... Hoping that idiot Gibbs would tell him the administration will reinvent the magic from 2008 ....


11 posted on 05/27/2012 5:56:56 PM PDT by Popman (America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
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To: Dallas59

Wow. An adult looking like a five year old kid pretending to be an adult. It would make an amusing (or perhaps sad) youtube video....if it was not the person in charge of our troops.

Lord above... Please save us from this childish man.


12 posted on 05/27/2012 6:25:50 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: Kaslin

Bob, Wake up and smell the roses, it was like everything that crosses mac daddies lip, it was a giant lie.


13 posted on 05/27/2012 7:04:57 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Kaslin
"Hope and Change" got lost on the way back home from vacationing at Martha's Vineyard. Then later it broke it's leg when it collided with a tree on the ski slopes in Aspen.

Hope and Change was last seen trying to catch a return trip from the kids' spring break in Mexico, but was unfortunately detained at the border.

14 posted on 05/27/2012 8:08:23 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Ann Archy

“I HOPE there is Change.”

That’s what I was about to say.


15 posted on 05/27/2012 10:42:14 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Kaslin

“Hope and change” will always be in the minds of the American people. EMK called it “the dream.” It will never happen, but the people still think it can and will. They will continually fool themselves.


16 posted on 05/28/2012 6:29:33 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Past is prologue: The American people again let us down in this election cycle.)
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