(CNN) -- During the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, Jimmy Kimmel made a joke that President Obama laughed at, but that you could see was just killing him inside. "Mr. President, do you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow?" Kimmel asked. "That was hilarious. That was your best one yet." Yeah it was. I'm sure he still has a lot of hope. But I would dare to say the thing that changed most over these past three years is Obama. The unbridled optimism that his first campaign once embodied has been bludgeoned by dogmatism, pragmatism and bipartisan cronyism.
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In 2008, "Hope and Change" was Obama slogan; this year it's "Forward"
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LZ Granderson says President Obama's ambitions have been scaled back
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He says economy, D.C. dysfunction, GOP opposition have gotten in the way
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Granderson says Romney's flip-flops make it hard for him to hold Obama accountable
The last person who should want to start a video rewind contest is @placeholder, who has enough flip-flops and broken promises captured on film that he could start his own network.