Last time, Obama lifted up the base with his message of hope and change; this time the base lifted up Obama, with the hope he will change.
This got me thinking about presidential campaign slogans, which have been a ubiquitous part of American culture for nearly two-hundred years. Normally they are little 
more than catchy platitudes, freshly minted clichés designed to make us feel better. But Dowd offered a prescient point by taking some creative license with Obama’s.
In that spirit, I too would like to have my way with some of history’s most famous presidential utterances. The results may not be particularly prescient, but hopefully these mangled and mashed-up presidential slogans are at least entertaining.
Speak softly and carry a chicken in every pot.
-Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover
I like Ike, Rome, Rum, and Rebellion.
-Dwight Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
-Abraham Lincoln and William Henry Harrison
A house divided against itself cannot stand so Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
-Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan
I did not have sex with that woman, mission accomplished.
-Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Are you better off than you were four score and seven years ago?
-Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln
A thousand points of normalcy
-George H.W. Bush and Warren G. Harding
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what change we can believe in this morning in America.
-John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Ronald Reagan
Yes we can, and I am not a crook.
-Barack Obama and Richard Nixon