2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Students Sour on 2012 [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Even Bill Clinton, the dreamer, ran on 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow'.
So, I don't understand why you're so dismissive of Obama doing it when it's been done in every election since the beginning of time?
Every campaign is about idealism. Every campaign will make promises they have to eventually break when elected. Every campaign speaks in platitudes - as did Hillary Clinton and her husband and Reagan and Carter and Nixon and Kennedy and FDR.
That's the reality. Diminishing Obama for doing it is ridiculous.
The only difference between Obama & Clinton in '96 is that 16 years ago, none of us were posting on a political message board dissecting the voting patterns of every subgroup in America. So, those dreamers who cast their vote for him in '92 expecting radical change weren't parsed four years later.
Yet Obama's every move is critiques by millions if keyboard warriors - both from the right & the left.
Meh.