Interesting... I teased Obama about using the whole “Hope and Change” line after I saw the beginning of the 1992 Presidential Debate and Clinton's opening remark saying,
“I represent real hope for change” (exact quote)! So, only TWO years after Clinton's campaign uses that to beat HW Bush, Romney and his aides are so impressed that THEY use the same slogan?
Hmmm... IIRC, weren't Republicans at that time running on a slogan with Gingrich's “Contract with America”? I don't recall many running that didn't go with something along those lines - certainly Republicans at that time wouldn't WANT to be associated with the lines spewed by then President Clinton's campaign. (Doesn't surprise me about Romney, though - it's just interesting).
Here's a link to the ‘92 debate between Bush, Clinton and Perot (Part I). Clinton's spiel begins at the 4:25 mark (a one-minute rebuttal to Perot's answer for “What separates you from the other candidate's on the stage”).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-W4GWjN2kg
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THE 1992 DEBATES : Excerpts: 3 Candidates Address Character, Change, ProblemsBill Clinton: "The most important distinction in this campaign is that I represent real hope for change, a departure from trickle-down economics, a departure from tax-and-spend economics, to invest in growth.
"But before I can do that, I must challenge the American people to change, and they must decide.
"Tonight I have to say to the President: Mr. Bush, for 12 years you've had it your way. You've had your chance, and it didn't work. It's time to change. I want to bring that change to the American people. But we must all decide first we have the courage to change for hope and a better tomorrow."When going back to the well works you keep going back to the well.
Of course, some people might call that mental conditioning.