Forget All That 'Hope' and 'Change' Talk, Okay?

Let’s play a quick word game, folks. Who said this?

I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness – a certain audacity – to this announcement. I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.

That’s right – none other than Barack Obama, Dear Leader himself, on February 10, 2007, while announcing his intentions to run for president.

And, as I point out in my brand-new book, OBAMA ZOMBIES, the promise to shake up the established political order if elected was a laser-targeted message that Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and Daivd Plouffe used to lobotomize an entire generation.

But why let your staple campaign promise of “change” get in the way of a government takeover of health-care?

Take it away, Robert Gibbs:

P.S. Many thanks to camerawoman Alyssa Cordova of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.