• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called ‘change,’ it’s still gonna stink after eight years.”

    • Barack Obama, 2008
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      3 months ago

      Telling on himself in that last part, though… He originally ran on hope and change, but then he governed as a status quo centrist 99% of the time.