At midterm, Obama tries can-do slogan, details TBD

[onehandle]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON – There's a new slogan in town, and it's a winner. At least that's what President Barack Obama has in mind. The president unveiled his "Winning the Future" mantra in his State of the Union address, and now the upbeat but amorphous phrase is part of every speech, policy and pronouncement coming out of the administration. It's also emerged as a fat target for his Republican critics.

What's next on health care? Where to go on energy and education policy? How to improve the jobs picture? It's all about winning the future through innovation and determination, Obama and his aides have argued over the past few days.

There's no room for losers is the implicit flip side of the message. "We've got to up our game," Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin. The nation must ensure "America is still on top" in a decade, the president said on YouTube. The country can't just lead, adds Vice President Joe Biden; it needs to "dominate."

It's a juiced-up way for Obama to frame his initiatives after two years in which even some of the president's supporters acknowledge that can-do verve sometimes was lacking from the conversation. What it means, though, is still TBD — to be determined.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110129/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_s_winning_future

[nc4bo]

1. WTF. nt

[MineralMan]

4. Yah, Sarah Palin picked up on that right away.

I think we might want to skip that one.

[Tunkamerica]

6. you stole my joke!

[OhioChick]

9. .....

:rofl:

[Hydra]

12. Truth in advertising for once >:) n/t

[woo me with science]

2. Oooooh .

A new slogan. :eyes:

[nc4bo]

3. Heeeeeeeeey you just stop that right now..

I like it for truthfulness and clarity.

Winning The Future = WTF?

Can't get much more honest than that.

Edit for "clarity" LOL

[Edweird]

5. I love 'the Onion'.

[Plucketeer]

7. One can only surmise

that the idiots that came up with that phrase are out of touch with reality. I'd give a D... maybe even a C for intent.

But "WTF"??? WTF were they thinking? How about OTF (owning the future) or TTF (taking the future) or LOF (lassoing the future) or CTF ( championing the future) or - or - or....

Edit: For typo.

[notesdev]

8. echoes of "Whip Inflation Now" nt

[JDPriestly]

10. Obama is catching on now that he is up for election.

When you base your current decisions on what you want your world to look like in a few years and not on how you can bring in the most campaign dollars for the moment, you make better decisions. I will be watching to see whether this new slogan motivates people in the Obama administration to be more aggressive for things like alternative energy and improving on his health care plan. I also hope it starts some realistic thinking about where school privatization will really take us. Because the path Obama has cut so far will just end in incredible corruption, dirty deals and an even more cynical society.

Get Wall Street out of the White House. We did not elect Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley or any of their friends.

[rug]

11. I thought it was going to be "I Like Ike."