A pithy maxim or two as history repeats

[tombogan03884]

                                  Vote McCain, Better an A hole than B-ho

[twyacht]

                                  Vote McCain, Better an A hole than B-ho

That's what we got. Sad but true.

[Middle Man]

Some of my proposals:
1- Obama: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976. 

2- BHO: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed of

3- BHO: Change! And your folding money too!

I tend to enjoy the parenthetical method of adding a bit of information (a sidebar conversation within a larger discussion would be a fine example) set apart from the main thought of a sentence without the necessity of an entire new sentence or a prepositional phrase, with which we may do more interesting things.  The parenthetical is more a written representation of the spoken and your change to a colon is more dramatic (more solid in appearance) written.  From that perspective, I quite like the change to a colon.  The date is important, it tells the reader that BHO's ideas are not new, as many have been led to believe.  As for the avow, dictionaries abound...pick one up perchance learn a new word.

I do like the third iteration, yet it seems only to address BHO's fiscal policies rather than his overall ideology. 

[brosometal]

So are you in on the BHO?  I'll get that pinned down now.  On #3 I liked the whole "foldin' money" thing.  I have laughed at that since I saw in O Brother Where Art Thou?  I went with it because people usually vote their pocket book thing.  I wanted to work in a surrender monkey in there somewhere, but that is off limits because I'm not Howard Cosell.  We want to keep it intellectual but not too much.  You know, just right (key word, right. Damn parenthesis).  Another phrase that works well is Bitter Clinger.  Like this political advertisment paid for by the Bitter Clingers of America (We approve this message and all that rot).  As far as production, if we keep the colors the same we can print a bunch of different bumper stickers so we have a nice variety.  Hey, reel me in if I'm getting too far off message.  I do tend to wander

[Middle Man]

While I do enjoy the humorous connotations in using only BHO's initials, the seriousness of the matter surrounding his proposed change would seem to require proper names.  On that basis, (and with many thanks) we shall adopt your rendering.

Obama: The Change Jimmy Carter was ashamed to avow in 1976.

Bitter Clingers of America - very well done sir!

[Sponsor]

[brosometal]

Glad to be of service.

Bitter Clingers Unite

[Middle Man]

Distillate musings:

Liberals (socialists) desire, at their foundation, an unobtainable utopia.  Their dreams of an "ideal society" fuel their politically corrected hype in a drive to suppress and control free society.

A Utopian society is a lofty ideal that is doomed to crumble against man's (God-given) freewill, man's desire for power, and man's propensity towards self interest and greed. 

A blind adherence to Reason (philosophical logic) is very nearly as detrimental to mankind as the dream of a Utopian society.  Reason may be nothing more than a cover for the preferences of an individual.  History, tradition, and wisdom of generations past (may) lessen the impact of unintended consequences.

[Middle Man]

My advice to the Democratic party:

Why threaten to cut off a set of nuts when you really only need to cull some nuts?

[tombogan03884]

My advice to the Democratic party:

Why threaten to cut off a set of nuts when you really only need to cull some nuts?

Never in my life thought I would agree with Jesse Jackson on ANYTHING.

[Middle Man]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    -- C. S. Lewis