Hope is a four letter word. Those with hope are cheated.

It is now April. Spring is really in the air for many of us across this great nation. The political process is still in full swing. But this year, this political season, there is something different in the air.

There is a pollen that has not been seen in a very long time.

It is the pollen of Democrat Liberal choice. Yes, thats right. There is still no clear winner for the Democrat nomination for President of the United States of America. The race is still very close, although many believe it is nearly impossible for Hillary Clinton to pull off a victory without the Super Delegate vote. But that is a whole other issue for another post.

Right now, Barack is baking himself to death with all the controversy that surrounds him with his Pastor form Illinois. Plus the fact that more and more information is coming out about his very Liberal voting record in both the Illinois state senate and in Washington, DC as a US Senator from the state of IL.

Plus so many other things that are really too numerous to mention in one post. So I will not delve into those issues. However, with that said, we now see that the new media has caught the attention of our Presidential Candidates and it looks like this new media will not let go of them.

The latest is Clinton on the Ellen show. Clinton talked about how she would see that gays in our country get more of a fair shake than they are getting now. And of course Ellen ate it up. But if you listen, read or watch, you will notice that Hillary did not go into detail about anything and she stopped short of saying total equality such as gay marriage across the nation.

But people will buy into anything as long as it is packaged right. Maybe that is the “Hope” that Obama keeps talking about. Ellen and people like her hope so much that the people they support will do what they say they will do. They don't ever ask for details. They accept the sound bites as gospel and run with it all the way to the polling booth.

Then when reality sinks in, usually after the person they supported gets into office, they still shrug it off and then blame someone else. For example, the “Don't ask, don't tell” military policy is usually blamed on the current President Bush. Forget the fact that it was their hero, Bill Clinton, that implemented that policy. Hey, as Commander in Chief, it would have been very easy for him to order the military to let gays serve openly.

But Bill never promised he would do that. In fact he is also the President that signed the Defense of Marriage Act. The same law that his wife now says she would throw out. Doesn't make sense but then the Liberal just eats up her words and HOPES that what she says is true.

Hope has gotten this country into a lot of trouble. Hope has been the reason for a lot of our liberties being curtailed or eliminated. Hope in and of itself is not evil but those who pander to people while using hope are evil.

You have to watch out when any politician use Hope as a tool to get elected. Hope is not an empty slogan. It is something real and genuine and should not be bantered about.

Then again maybe Hillary is just taking the advice of the many pundits out there. She has to be seen by the public as being approachable and likable. How else do you do it in todays world? You go on talk shows. Although we most likely will not see Hillary on the Oprah show, she has been given some top advice by some top talk show experts. They are telling her how to be more human and more likable.

Is that something we as a nation are ready for? A likable Hillary Clinton. I guess it is something that the left is really Hoping for.

Hope and Change are Empty Liberal Programs

It looks like HOPE is alive and well. The Obama Hope Train is pulling into Texas and Ohio and it looks like it is leading the Clinton Train. But stop for a moment. Are you like me on this hope train? I hate it.

It is empty rhetoric and means nothing. I take that back. When someone starts preaching “hope” instead of giving you the details of what they want to do, you better hold on to your wallet. Better still, you better hide your wallet because they, the hope mongers, are coming for your hard earned money.

Have you noticed a very loud silence on the details of what Barack would do if he is elected to office? This is not by accident. The Obama camp knows exactly what his hope will bring to the whole of America. Higher taxes and bigger, much bigger government.

Although this is not the first time hope has been bandied about as a slogan but it has taken on new meaning of late. In fact it is the twin of change. You hear all about how America needs a change. A change in what direction? A change to what? I ask the question, what kind of change? The answer I get back is silence. Silence that is ear shattering.

Change and Hope, the twins that devastate a nation without rhyme nor reason because those who peddles such notions refuse to let us know what kind of change and what kind of hope they are selling us. They hide behind beautiful speeches that move you to tears but in the end, when you actually take the time to study what they said, you realize they actually said NOTHING.

Obama said in one of his speeches, “Yes we can.” He repeated that line again and again. But when you listen to that speech again and take the emotion and background noise out, you realize he didn't say a damned thing. But all of his speeches are empty. They lack true substance. They lack substance is because if he were to tell you exactly what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it, nobody but the hard core left would vote for him.

This is true of Clinton as well. Although she tells us a bit more in detail what she would do if elected, we are still left with rhetoric that reaches higher than the Sears Tower in Chicago. The big problem is the major media lets these people get away with giving us empty speeches. The media gives them a pass on having to detail everything in their platform. Yet when a conservative tries to get away with empty promises, they are called out on the mat.

Raise taxes? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you offer hope of a better tomorrow through government programs. Grow government bigger? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you see a new day where every person has an equal opportunity – an equal opportunity to access government services. Reduce their freedom? Don't tell the American people that. Instead tell them you believe that everyone has a right to everything in life and that it is unfair if some have better choices than others. Tell them you will make sure everyone has the same choice as everyone else. In other worlds, no choice at all.

When you break it down, what you find in all the words of Hope and Change, from Jesse Jackson in the 80's to Bill Clinton in the 90's to Barack Obama in this decade, is empty rhetoric with nothing but higher taxes, less freedom and no choice. Hope and change are not political programs. At least not unless you are a left wing nut liberal. But for the sane majority, hope and change equals despair and devastation.

Could it be the change we need is a change from the liberal left? Could it be that our true hope lay in reverting back to the original intent of our Founding Fathers and our Constitution. Could it be that the road to glory is paved in personal responsibility?

Yes, I guess I agree, empty promises of change and hope are much more palatable. At least until we look into our wallets and see nothing but lint. The same emptiness we have with all of this hope and change rhetoric.