Obama was NOT elected because he ran on "incremental change"

[Bonobo]

The election of Barack Obama was a call for BIG CHANGE. We may have wound up with incremental change, but that is in large part because the electorate was swinging for the fences.

Vote for incremental change and you will get nothing but a continued drift to the right as the opposition redefines our lukewarm "incremental candidate" as "far left" and resets what is considered center towards the right. THIS is what has been going on and there is no better poster child for this outcome than Hillary Clinton right now.

No. Vote for, demand for BIG CHANGE.

You may only wind up with incremental change, but you will help to reset our center back towards the left from where it has steadily drifted over the last 30 years.

[msongs]

1. we were hoping there would be big change. oh well nt

[Bonobo]

2. Yes, we were.

And perhaps we SHOULD be a little happy that we got anything.

But my point is that he was armed with an enormous amount of political capital from an electorate that wanted BIG CHANGE.

Imagine now what will happen if we vote for an incremental change candidate. We will go backwards.

[JaneyVee]

3. Sorry, but cynics are too cynical to demand BIG CHANGE.

Cynicism reaps what is sown.

[BrotherIvan]

5. Some people are more afraid it seems

The Republicans are so scary, they are running for whomever they think will protect them. They are willing to sell freedom for security.

[joshcryer]

6. It was a damn great campaign.

But it was wholly false when you look at the power a President has to enact change.

[Recursion]

7. He ran on not being tied to partisan ideology

I don't remember anything about "big sweeping change" other than "I won't try to keep things as strictly Democrat vs. Republican". Which ads did you see that talked about that?

[Bonobo]

8. Well it is all very open to interpretation.

It all comes down to hope and change.

Foreign policy based on our moral standing? Living wage for workers? Those are big issues. BIG ISSUES.

Combined with the idea that we were going from the WASPiest of old money WASPS to the first black president, people can be forgiven for thinking they were voting for a big change.

I do not believe that was lost on the campaign bigwigs. Do you?

[Mojorabbit]

9. I thought I was voting for some big change...nt

[Javaman]

10. I also remember him saying...

I'd rather be a good one term president than a mediocre two term president.

he's leaning toward mediocre