President Obama’s faded 2008 banner of “change” and “hope” is making a comeback on the campaign trail even as the Obama-Biden re-election campaign desperately seeks a new political slogan. Over the past week, both Vice President Biden and first lady Michelle Obama resurrected the 2008 campaign rallying cry, though in muted tones, to suggest that if the president is given another four years in office the promise will belatedly come true.
It’s part of an Obama-Biden bid to piggyback off the slowly improving economy with a campaign story line that while the president’s earlier stimulus and other spending didn’t immediately improve the lives of Americans, it appears to be taking root now. “Now that the economy is starting to improve, they can take credit for at least getting it going,” said an adviser.
