Too funny . . . wait, he’s serious?
Via Politico:
President Barack Obama borrowed a phrase from one of his harshest opponents last night, telling supporters at a New York fundraiser that “all that hopey changey stuff” from the 2008 campaign “was real.”
The “hopey changey” term comes from a certain former Alaska governor and 2008-vintage Obama opponent. At a tea party convention in Nasvhille last year, Sarah Palin said she wanted to ask Obama’s supporters: “How’s that hopey changey thing working out for ya?”
Obama’s belated response went like this, according to last night’s pool report from the Gotham Theater:
“All that hopey changey stuff, as they say? That was real. It wasn’t something . . . it was real, you could feel it. You know it. It’s still there. Even in the midst of this hardship. But it’s hard. When I was in Grant Park that night, I warned everybody this was going to be hard, this wasn’t the end it was the beginning.”
“Over the past 2 and a half years,” he said, “the hope poster starts fading. But I tell you what, you travel around the country and talk to the American people, that spirit’s still there.”