Sexy? La campagne 2012 ne ressemblera pas à la campagne 2008 (Obama)

Aucune surprise ici... Mais il se compare à Emmitt Smith!

"President Obama wants voters to understand that he can’t be the sexy, surprise upstart candidate he was in 2008 this time around, but his supporters still need to rally around him.

It’s more difficult to run for a second term after nearly three years of taking hits from both the right and the left during a bad economy, he said invoking a little self-deprecating humor, but voters need to mobilize behind him or face the consequences of a Republican in the Oval Office.

At a luncheon fundraiser in Dallas, Obama implored Democrats to recapture the enthusiasm of 2008 when his campaign messaging focused on change and hope.

“We’ve got to make sure that we feel the same urgency in this election as we did back in 2008,” he told the crowd. “Now, it won’t be as sexy as in 2008. Back then, I didn’t have any gray hair and was all kind of fresh and new. And now I’m dinged up — gone through some battles.”

“But I tell you, the vision that propelled me to get into this campaign in the first place, that vision is still strong,” he continued. “And my enthusiasm and faith in America — that’s unabated. I am absolutely confident that we can get through this difficult time, make the changes that are necessary, and deliver to our kids an America that is stronger and more unified and more just and more equal; where opportunity is available for everybody; where we are competitive with any country on Earth. I’m confident we can do it, but we’ve got to get this election right.”

Obama then turned to an analogy involving Texas football great Emmitt Smith, who holds the record for most rushing yards in the NFL.

“Now, Emmitt had some spectacular runs. But I think Emmitt will be the first one to acknowledge that a whole lot of those yards, he was just grinding it out,” Obama said. “…But it was his persistence and his strength that allowed him to achieve that record.

“Well, that’s what this campaign is going to be like. We may not be throwing the long bomb each and every time. We’re just going to have to plug away and stay at it. But if, in our hearts, we believe what we say we believe about a country that gives everybody a fair shake and asks for a fair share from everybody, if that’s really who we are, then we won’t be tired, we won’t be deterred, we won’t be weary. We’ll stick at it, and we’ll stick with it.” "

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