President Obama, increasingly in campaign mode these days, stepped right up to one of the right-wing’s favorite attack lines against him at a fundraiser in New York last night.
“How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?” Sarah Palin asked the audience at the Nashville Tea Party Convention last year.
Last night, Obama said it’s working out fine, though it may have been a little harder to pull off than he first thought.
“All that hopey changey stuff, as they say? That was real,” Obama said. “It wasn’t something …it was real, you could feel it. You know it. It’s still there. Even in the midst of this hardship. But it’s hard. When I was in Grant Park that night, I warned everybody this was going to be hard, this wasn’t the end it was the beginning.”
“Over the past two and a half years,” Obama said, “the hope poster starts fading. But I tell you what, you travel around the country and talk to the American people, that spirit’s still there.”
