Got Any Change?

You hear it every four years and then it fades away. It's that word "Change"

Turn on the TV or open the paper and you are bound to see some presidential wannabe standing near a sign that says Change!

Mitt Romney:"This is a time when America wants change. Washington is broken."
Rudy Giuliani: "Change is a concept. Is it change for good or change for bad?"
Mike Huckabee: "I'm not running for George Bush's third term."
John McCain:"The fact is that the American people have lost trust and confidence in government" on dealing with illegal immigration.
Fred Thompson: "As far as change is concerned, the change we need is to go to constitutional principles."
Ron Paul: "The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war is not a minor change; this is huge. … This is not necessary."

Democrats
Hillary Rodham Clinton: "I embody change. I think having the first woman president is a huge change."
John Edwards: " I believe deeply in change."
Barack Obama: "If we're going to bring about real change, then we have to bring in the American people."
Bill Richardson:"I love change. We all are for change."


Do we really need change? I'd like to hear someone say they are going to keep things the way they are. If something really does change, I have to change with it and that's a burden to me.

You know when you get a new car. You have to learn how to turn on the headlights all over again. I want to turn on the radio and I get blasted with heat. I knew how to do it in the old one. I knew what button did what, but now the car suddenly is smarter then me.

Over the weekend I got a new cellphone. My old phone made calls. I could call out, people could call me. But I had the same phone for a few years and it was starting to show wear and tear so it was time for a "change". I told the guy at the store I just wanted a plain old phone. I didn't care of it had a rotary dial on the darn thing. Well you would have thought I had two heads.

So now I have a phone (I think) that takes pictures, video, has GPS, plays music, can text message, surf the web and keep my life in order. That's assuming I ever figure the darn thing out. And once I do figure out all the stuff I'll never use, you guessed it, it will be time for a change.

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