All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

The election could lead to a change for the better, which is everybody's hope, but it might be a step toward crisis and toward all-out civil war.

There is little scope for me to change [the proposals]. But I hope that within what little scope I have, I will see what I can do to perfect the package. But it will be of limited scale and it will not affect the timetable for resolution of this matter in the Legislative Council [on December 21]. Nor will it itself produce quickly a timetable that is not achievable.

If these trends do not change, there is little hope that the great biodiversity of this unique ecosystem, discovered just 35 years ago, will survive another decade.