Patrick, Obama campaigns share language of 'hope'

[fedupinBushcountry]

By Scott Helman, Globe Staff | April 16, 2007
Of all the things Deval Patrick's Republican opponent threw at him in last year's governor's race, one charge that stuck in his craw was that his speeches were more fluff than substance -- that they were, in Patrick's telling, "just words." So he devised an artful response.

" 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal' -- just words," Patrick said at a rally in Roxbury right before Election Day. " 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself' -- just words. . . . 'I have a dream' -- just words. They're all just words."

The crowd erupted as it got Patrick's point about the power of language. But perhaps no one at the rally understood the point better than Barack Obama, who had joined him on stage that night.

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The similarities between Patrick and Obama, who have known each other for more than a decade, are obvious: Both are idealistic African-American leaders who came of age after the Civil Rights movement. Both have Chicago roots, a Harvard Law degree, and a gift for appealing to both blacks and whites.

Their political likeness runs deeper. Both believe that people long for a new dawn of postpartisan, hopeful, and optimistic public leadership. Both staked their fates on grass-roots activism and fund-raising. Both campaign on supplanting cynicism with citizenship.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/16/patrick_obama_campaigns_share_language_of_hope/?page=1">link

Obama, Patrick Collaboration Noted Specifically By Globe Back In April 2007

Similarly, there wasn't any indication back in April of last year that this matter was any cause for concern or complaint. State Democratic Party chair Phillip W. Johnston spoke of the two men with admiration: "We all said that we could have closed our eyes when Obama spoke it could have been Deval. To us it was a similar kind of message. It's a message that transcends partisan politics."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/18/obama-patrick-collaborat_n_87236.html">more

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[billbuckhead]

1. Remember when Newt Gingrich and his cult did this same weird deal with words

<http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/examples.newtnamecall.html>

This is the list of negative words and phrases that GOP candidates were told to use when speaking about their opponents.

"Compassion" is not enough.
Anti-(issue) flag, family, child, jobs
Betray
Coercion
Collapse
Consequences
Corruption
Crisis
Decay
Deeper
Destroy
Destructive
Devour
Endanger
Failure
Greed
Hypocrisy
Ideological
Impose
Incompetent
Insecure
Liberal
Lie
Limit(s)
Pathetic
Permissive attitude
Radical
Self-serving
Sensationalists
Shallow
Sick
They/them
Threaten
Traitors
Unionized bureaucracy
Urgent
Waste
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I guess the Obama "movement" has now added "desperate" to the list. Y'all should be so proud.

[fedupinBushcountry]

2. WTF?

Facts really do something to a certain candidate's supporters. :crazy:

[ProSense]

3. LOL! n/t

[jackson_dem]

4. What has Patrick's "hope" brought to Massachussetts?

"Hope and change" has to be the most empty slogan since 1840.

[Nedsdag]

6. I guess Hillary's slogan is as follows:

"Dirty up your opponent and bring him down to your level."

What a great slogan. :eyes: :puke:

[fedupinBushcountry]

7. Oh really

Now who said: "I still believe in a place called Hope". Sheesh, give it up, you are very tiresome and easily discredited.

[jackson_dem]

8. That was his campaign's slogan? I thought it was "time for a change"?

Why did he choose that? What was the central argument of his candidacy? What did he use to back it up? Just words? Or facts? Just words? Or performance?

I love Obamites who arrogantly declare victory and then own themselves. :rofl:

[Peregrine Took]

5. Axelrod is the common denomination in both campaigns,......

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Deval - "Hope & Change"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSVsUvqb_Q&feature=related