The shortsightedness of labeling hope "false"

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Hillary gets desperate, likens Obama to Bush

Let's compare:

"So, you know, I think it is clear that what we need is somebody who can deliver change. And we don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered. The best way to know what change I will produce is to look at the changes that I've already made." -- Hillary Clinton

"It's not fair" to raise false hopes " -- Laura Bush

"In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable." -- Charles Krauthammer

Hope

"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." -- Barack Obama

Yes. We. Can

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1. Anyone want to defend "false hope"? n/t

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2. “I didn’t learn about hope yesterday,

I’ve had hope my whole life. It's not hope that we need, its help!” said Maxine Waters.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/02/politics/fromtheroad/entry3782528.shtml

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3. That doesn't dash hope as being false, it defends hope: "I’ve had hope my whole life." Why? n/t

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4. Amazing how this thread is sinking! n/t