THE HILL – President Obama has gone from “yes we can” to “so sue me.”
The president’s standoffish remark this week about a Republican lawsuit was a reminder of how much Obama’s rhetoric has changed since his 2008 campaign and its promise to deliver a new kind of politics.
These ten Obama quotations illustrate the transformation.
1. July 27, 2004: “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America. There’s the United States of America.”
Obama vaults onto the national stage with a call for unity at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
2. Feb. 5, 2008: “We know that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored, that will not be deterred, that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, make this time different than all the rest. Yes, we can.”
Obama voices his hopes in a speech on Super Tuesday during the 2008 campaign.
Read the full list at The Hill.
