My fellow comrades:

At the risk of dating myself, I'd like to know if anyone in the Collective remembers those silly little cartoons known as “Love Is . . .” They featured a naked boy and girl, neither with any genitalia (very Progressive for their time, I must say), against a background of hearts with some pithy little caption defining what “Love Is.”

Love Is . . . spreading the wealth.

Love Is . . . wearing an awareness ribbon to show just how much you care.

Love Is . . . blogging about the need for a government program to provide love to people who don't have any.

You get the idea. Now behold the latest Obama slogan to join the proud pantheon of promotional platitudes previously peddled and precipitately put out to pasture:

CHANGE IS

Yes We Did: Obama Deploys 'Change Is' Slogan

Barack Obama campaigned for president four years ago promising “change we can believe in.”
Now, he's running for a second term touting the ways that “change is.”

The emerging slogan for the 2012 campaign, on display during a high-profile New York City fundraiser Thursday night, thrusts Obama's social and domestic policy achievements to the forefront of his re-election pitch.

And its appearance on new Obama-Biden campaign merchandise and apparel suggests the “change is” meme will likely be here to stay.

That's right, Comrades. CHANGE IS

No period. No question mark? No exclamation point! No ellipsis . . . No Dash—Not even a lousy colon: Just CHANGE IS

Subject, verb, no object. That sounds about right.


For no one knows what CHANGE IS anymore than anyone ever halfway understood what we were supposed to Hope for; or whatever the hell it was that Yes, We Can do; or what Recovery that Summer; or who's losing if we're Winning the Future—because if someone's winning, then someone else has to be losing; or why we had to Pass This Bill to find out if it was anything besides another Stimulus; or what it is We Can't Wait for after we'd been told that We're the Ones We've Been Waiting For.

Apparently, CHANGE IS whatever you want it to be, just as We Can't Wait for whatever we want.

Tell us what you think CHANGE IS and if I like your response, I might give you Beet of the Week!

Commissarka Pinkie is a regular contributor to The People's Cube, and is renowned and admired for her dedication to raising awareness of how much she cares. When she isn't busy making an issue out of everything, she enjoys spending other people's money, occupying other people's property, and beating proles with her shovel.

Change is... playing golf to advance social justice.

Change is... pooping spontaneously when necessary instead of being limited by the bourgeois concept of bathrooms.

Change is... taking from whomever we define as "the rich" and giving to whomever we define as "the poor."

Change is... recognizing that government is the things we do together as determined by the Party faithful, not those who will be required to pay for them.

Change is... understanding that "bipartisanship" is everyone doing what we want.

Change is... learning to accept "shut up" as a valid explanation.

Change is... realizing compliance is the highest form of patriotism.

Change is... knowing it is more important who does something than the what that is done.

Change is... believing that only the Party can say when it is wrong and being sure that it will never say that.

Change is... to see that disagreeing with the Party is only possible if someone has greedy, raaaacist or violent ulterior motives.

Change is... four (or more) years of the same!

[highlight=#ffffff]Change is[/highlight]……. Never having to say you're sorry, they are not enlightened enough to understand
Change is……. What is left after you have redistributed that which is in your Glorious Stash
Change is……. Hope and Hope is Change
Change is……. Keeping those evil Canadian capitalist pigs at bay
Change is……. Not Bush
Change is……. “What Democracy looks like”
Change is……. Is occupying with our glorious revolutionaries
Change is……. Ummm, ahhh, errrr, ummm

Well, to steal a line from Despair.com, change is what you do to both politicians and babies' diapers - and for the same reason.

But then - it all DOES depend upon what the meaning of the word "is" is, doesn't it?

Thanks for bringing me a flashback that included 8-Track Tapes, "Clackers" and bell bottom jeans.

"At the risk of dating myself..."
I dated myself once, but I never called me back after that. I found out what a cheap date I am. For some reason I became offended when I thought if I bought myself dinner, I should put out for myself. I became most angry and slapped myself cross-eyed. Perhaps I thought that McDonald's was pretty classless for a seduction dinner. But, then, aren't we supposed to be living in a classless society? I confuse myself very much.

Well,

became

Change Is: Good for Socialists, bad for Capitalist
Change Is: All you have left at the end of the month
Change Is: What Obama is doing to our constitution
Change Is: Destructive to our country

And my favorite,


Change Is: Coming November 2012!

Dear leader has just released his new campaign posters for the upcoming election. It seems he is teary eyed with anticipation.

Oh, I get it. Reminds me of the JESUS IS ... _______. bumper sticker.

CHANGE IS ... pink-shovel-ready Union jobs!

I dated myself once, but I never called me back after that. I found out what a cheap date I am. For some reason I became offended when I thought if I bought myself dinner, I should put out for myself. I became most angry and slapped myself cross-eyed. Perhaps I thought that McDonald's was pretty classless for a seduction dinner. But, then, aren't we supposed to be living in a classless society? I confuse myself very much.

I once got in touch with my feminine side. As a a result, I am now the subject of a restraining order that requires me to remain at least 50 feet away from myself at all times.

that jar must be bigger than it looks...

What a sad state of affairs this is, Comrade Brain -In - and - Out -of Jar !
An " out of mind " experience, to be sure.

Posting a link to this thread on Facebook has provoked a surge in thinking activities among the toiling masses:

Change is‎ what is Left.

Change is what I Hope to have left in my pockets when 0bama leaves office

Change is‎ good... or else!

Some change left over in my pocket after rendering unto Cesar would be nice for a start....

Change is what you do when you stink, and its time for a change of government.

Change is‎ O!bamao leaving me seven rubles and four kopecks short of a pfennig. I just hope they don't find the cabbage I have hidden in the flowerbed out back.

Change is voting en mass for somebody who has a nice slogan/logo... all style no substance.

Change is what happens on November 6th, 2012.
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Change is additive (apparently)

Change is when someone tries to fix what is not broken and completly wrecks it

Change is like anything made in china.....looks great on the commercials but once u get it........

Change is mandatory.

Change is coming.

Change is what happens when you begin to think things are going just fine!

Change is not delay. Eh, Paul? LOL

Change – a political term utilized for the purposes of ambiguity and deception. The term doesn't specify direction or conviction, or even if it is being used as a verb or a noun.

Change is when we get rid of pesky "private sector" corporations like McDonalds, and replace it with government run McStalins! Everything on the menu is equally priced comrades!

Change is what the masses were completely taken in by when the TV news wouldn't do its job last time around.

Commisarka Pinkie,

Regarding your "Change is ... " thread, it appears that Michelle Obama intends to take-over your job:


What is her new slogan?

Change is FLOTUS as Shovel-Whacker?
or
Change is Commisarka FLOTUS?
or
Change is Commisarka Bluie?
or
Change is Michelle Obama as Prole-Whacker?
or
Change is Michelle Obama as Shovel-Weilder?

Are you going to take this sitting down? Or is a shovel-duel imminent that would make the light-sabre battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Vader seem tame by comparison?
Already I can envison such Battle of the Shovels between two Titans of Progressivism.

--KOOK

Two shovels, one dress, no rules...survivor takes all

Tovarichi wrote:Two shovels, one dress, no rules...survivor takes all

Since it's a blue dress, I hereby volunteer to hold the dress in my custody while I referee the Battle of Shovels between Commisarka Pinkie and FLOTUS, but I'm told by FLOTUS that her battle attire will be her famous "Shovel-Wielding Uniform" as a Jedi Shovel Master, and Pinkie will insist that her "Shovel-Wielding Uniform" must be a skin-tight sweater just barely long enough to be the equivalent of a sweater-type micro-mini-skirt.

This could be as exciting (perhaps more exciting) than the soon-to-debut battle between Sarah Palin (in her now-famous Raquel Welsh "1,000,000 BC" movie almost-outfit) and our GAIA Minister Neytiri of AVATAR fame.

I'm now waiting for FLOTUS to deliver the blue dress to our Secretary of State for prompt delivery to me, and I'm readying the fight-ring (I think it's called the Squared Circle) while awaiting arrival of Pinkie and FLOTUS in their respective Jedi Shovel-Master Uniforms.


This could be the Fight of the Century.


--Minister of Truth.