There were no good slogans this year. Nothing memorable. Not that there has been for awhile anyway. What happened to those great political slogans of yesteryear? You remember them...
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
"A Chicken in every Pot and a Car in every Garage."
"I Like Ike"
"All the Way with L.B.J."
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman!"
Or what about those cool phrases that described policy or programs, like...
The New Deal - F.D.R.
The Fair Deal - Truman
The New Frontier - Kennedy
The Great Society - L.B.J.
1000 Points of Light - Bush Sr.
"A Chicken in every Pot and a Car in every Garage."
"I Like Ike"
"All the Way with L.B.J."
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman!"
Or what about those cool phrases that described policy or programs, like...
The Square Deal -Teddy Roosevelt
The New Deal - F.D.R.
The Fair Deal - Truman
The New Frontier - Kennedy
The Great Society - L.B.J.
1000 Points of Light - Bush Sr.
You just don't hear cool stuff like that these days. When's the last time a President made a really memorable quote, the kind they put in history books? Like...
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself."
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
"If anyone tells you that America's best days are behind her, they're looking the wrong way."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
(Uhh, what was that?)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself."
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.""If anyone tells you that America's best days are behind her, they're looking the wrong way."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
(Uhh, what was that?)
When the smoke clears tonight we will have a new President. And while some hope that the next four years will show big change in, health care, the war in Iraq, taxes, immigration, social issues...I just want to not be bored. I want I snappy quote here and there. I want a President that shoots from the hip and does not sound like a Styrofoam cut out regurgitating some speech writers thoughts. This years was so planned out, so scripted
I want someone to tell it like it is, someone with passion. What ever he decides to do in office, be convicted, and do it with your whole heart. Don't do it to please one side or the other. do it because, right or wrong, it's what you believe in. I don't want politics as usual. And may God bless the winner and guide him in his thoughts and choices.
I want someone to tell it like it is, someone with passion. What ever he decides to do in office, be convicted, and do it with your whole heart. Don't do it to please one side or the other. do it because, right or wrong, it's what you believe in. I don't want politics as usual. And may God bless the winner and guide him in his thoughts and choices.
good post gina....
looking forward to see what happens the next 4 years....
YES WE CAN!