2011/09/20

Arianna Huffington: For Voters to Believe Obama's Second Term Will Bring about Change, He Needs to Acknowledge What Needs to Change in Himself!

We don't know yet what the overarching theme of President Obama's reelection campaign will be, but the word "change" is likely to once again play at least a co-starring role, but this time it's different. We have now seen the ways in which the president went about trying to effect that change over the last three years. So, while his ideas about the changes the system needs in his second term are welcome and necessary, there is another kind of change he needs to talk about, if the change he proposes is to be believed. He needs to make clear the changes he intends to make in himself, in the way he governs, and in the way he approaches the big, systemic changes he claims to want to see. In order for voters to believe that things will be different in the president's second term, there has to be some recognition of what did NOT work in the first!

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