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January 6, 2008
The 'C' Word
Change is suddenly all the rage here in New Hampshire. All the candidates for the presidency have evidently decided that Barack Obama won in Iowa because he has captured the word "change". Now they all want a piece of it.

The presidential debates - which have just finished - featured an increasingly silly battle over this magical word. John Edwards, running third among the Democrats in the New Hampshire polls, proclaimed that he and Obama are both "agents of change". Hillary Clinton announced that "I embody change." And Bill Richardson, the fourth Democrat on stage, gushed that "I love change." Still, he obviously has some trouble keeping up with a changing world since he announced that one of his first acts as president would be to open negotiations with the Soviet Union.

The Republicans were also banging on about change. Mitt Romney, second in Iowa and running neck-and-neck with John McCain here in NH, made a particularly spirited effort to claim the magic "c" word. McCain got a laugh by saying "You certainly are the candidate of change", a catty reference to Romney's reputation for policy flip-flops.
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The Race for U.S. President 'Embodies' Desire for Change
Category: POLITICS
By: Pete Kendall, January 7, 2008

2008: THE YEAR EVERYTHING CHANGES
The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, January 4, 2008

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It sure didn’t take long for the “change” idea to make its presence felt in the 2008 race. We started the Special Report in this month’s issue of The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast calling for big changes in 2008, but even we were surprised on Saturday night when the contestants started trying to upstage one another by itemizing their qualifications as agents of change. When Richardson gave up soft pedaling his credentials and said, “I love change,” the level of patronage to a trend change was almost scary. The winds of change are blowing hard now, and politicians are falling in line with its direction. Voters better be careful what they wish for.

 

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