Republicans Cure Depression!
Kevin Drum observes,
Democrats are taking unsurprising glee in rubbing GOP noses in the fact that the new campaign slogan chosen by House Republicans — “Change You Deserve” — turns out to also be the trademarked slogan of the antidepressant Effexor. That’s prepackaged comedy gold for the late-night comic crowd. But I’m genuinely curious: how did this happen? Didn’t Boehner & Co. even bother to Google the phrase to see if anyone else was using it? It shows up in a 10-second search, after all.
True that. In the age of Google, there’s not much excuse for this sort of mistake.
On the other hand, I seem to recall that the theme of the 1984 GOP convention was supposed to be “Together, A Fresh Start.” Right before the convention, someone realized that “Fresh Start” was the name of a laundry detergent and the phrase became “Together, A New Beginning.” Ronald Reagan nonetheless managed to go on to win 49 states.
(I hasten to add that I can’t envision a scenario where McCain wins that handily. It’s just unlikely this particular issue will matter.)
But isn’t it amusing that Democrats, who supposedly eschew slogans, and bumper-stickers, latched onto this one so quickly?
How is this worse than the Obama campaign, taking their slogan directly from a children’s television show, to wit,
“Can we do it?.. Yes, We can!”
This is manifest condescension, and embarrassing to watch!
Bob the Builder first aired in 1997.
Cesar Chavez started using “Si se puede” in 1972.
I will assume you don’t need help with that math.
Michael,
But Obama isn’t saying Si Se Puede now is he.
Don’t you remember Bill the backsplater Clinton, he used the same he’s for chance garbage.
find the biggest empty promise that you can and liberals will eat it up, poop, to bad his intern dint get the memo, would have save poor old Bill a lot of trouble.
After the Republicans suffer a severe drubbing in November, perhaps they will come to their senses and change the slogan to “Change We Deserve”.
I still like McCain’s “The President You’ve Been Waiting For”– I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what that says about McCain’s opinion of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Michael;
Dictionary.com translates “Si Se Puede” as…
“if it can”
In 1959 my first grade teacher ask me if I could spell “antidisestablishmentarianism”.
I said.. you guessed it….”Yes I Can!”
I’m sure you don’t need help with that math?[lol]
Yes yes, I was lazy and didn’t look up the character sequence for “Ô (Alt+0237 on Windows). You knew what I was getting at.
“SÃ, se puede” literally translates to “Yes, it can”, but carries the meaning of “Yes, we can”.
I’m sure you meant: “The American President for America that America has been waiting for, America”.
Nah, I meant what I wrote. I just nonremembered it missyntactically.
Maybe the GOP was trying to make a depression joke and it fell flat? You know, we’re in a “depression”, Effexor is an anti-depressant…oh, never mind.
¡Sà podemos! That is yes we can.
Puede is third person singular of the verb poder ( to be able, can) meaning he, she, you can.
Podemos is first person plural which means you and I (we) can.
This is the kind of “change” the Republicans have given us the last 7 years:
1. They changed Bill Clinton’s federal surplus into a $300 billion deficit.
2. They changed a $5 trillion National Debt into a $9+ trillion National Debt
3. They changed a 4% economic growth rate into a barely 2% growth rate
4. They changed $30/barrel oil into $125/barrel oil
5. They changed $1.30 gas into $3.75 gas
I’m not sure Americans “deserve” much more of that kind of “change”.
A very simple minded analysis, Mr.S, with little regard for the truth.
This leads me to think you might be a Democrat!
Here’s your sign….!
How about “We Suck 50% Less Than The American Hating Socialists”.
It’s the only reason I’ll be voting Republican in November.
The Dems could try “Hoover’s Economic Policy with Chamberlain’s Foreign Policy”.
This is the kind of “change” the Democrats have given us the last 40 years:
1.men into woman
2.woman into men
3.California and New Mexico into Mexico
4.our money into theirs
5.food into fuel
6.45 million babies into dead babies
7.large inner city’s into 3rd world city’s
8.the earth into God
9.porn into art
10.porn into free speech
11.dead babies into free speech
12.idiots into Nobel prise winners
13.terrorists into Nobel prise winners
12.the MSM into a propaganda ministry
14.monkeys into men
15.Christians into evil doers
16.Muslims into men of peace
17.Ghosts into to real
18.UFOs into real
19.evolution into a religion
20.the public school system into a propaganda ministry
21. and every day donkeys into jackasses
America deserved this kind of change because we voted for it, well at least to many of us did.
VOTE!!!!ITS A KEEP THE POWER OUT OF THE WRONG HANDS THING!!!!!