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Presidential candidates this election season are once again promising "change," enormous volumes of it. Needless to say, they're not the first aspirants for the job to vow fundamentally different and better days. With two exceptions, the following 11 excerpts are from acceptance speeches made by presidential nominees of both major parties at their respective conventions going back to 1960. See if you can figure out who said what. Better yet, see if you can decipher any instructive pattern whatsoever.
A. John McCain
B. Barack Obama
C. John Kerry
D. George W. Bush
E. Bill Clinton
F. Ronald Reagan
G. Gerald Ford
H. George McGovern
I. Hubert Humphrey
J. Richard Nixon
K. John F. Kennedy
1. "Today our concern must be with [the] future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do."
2. "[M]y fellow Americans, something new, something different has happened. It is the end of an era and the beginning of a new day."
3. "The time has come to leave the valley of despair and climb the mountain so that we may see the glory of the dawn -- a new day for America."
4. "We are entering a new period of important and hopeful change in America, a period comparable to those eras that unleashed such remarkable ferment in the period of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt."
5. "I respect the convictions of those who want change in Washington. I want change, too."
6. "Together, let us make this a new beginning. ... Tonight, let us dedicate ourselves to renewing the American compact."
7. "Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America."
8. "This nation is daring and decent and ready for change. ... My fellow citizens, we can begin again."
9. "We have it in our power to change the world again."
10. "Change we can believe in."
11. "I've made the greatest change."
(credit to Mitch Pearlstein, Mpls Star-Tribune)
A. John McCain
B. Barack Obama
C. John Kerry
D. George W. Bush
E. Bill Clinton
F. Ronald Reagan
G. Gerald Ford
H. George McGovern
I. Hubert Humphrey
J. Richard Nixon
K. John F. Kennedy
1. "Today our concern must be with [the] future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do."
2. "[M]y fellow Americans, something new, something different has happened. It is the end of an era and the beginning of a new day."
3. "The time has come to leave the valley of despair and climb the mountain so that we may see the glory of the dawn -- a new day for America."
4. "We are entering a new period of important and hopeful change in America, a period comparable to those eras that unleashed such remarkable ferment in the period of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt."
5. "I respect the convictions of those who want change in Washington. I want change, too."
6. "Together, let us make this a new beginning. ... Tonight, let us dedicate ourselves to renewing the American compact."
7. "Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America."
8. "This nation is daring and decent and ready for change. ... My fellow citizens, we can begin again."
9. "We have it in our power to change the world again."
10. "Change we can believe in."
11. "I've made the greatest change."
(credit to Mitch Pearlstein, Mpls Star-Tribune)
