Eight years ago, a simple, catchy, popular refrain emerged for a weary population which was about to suffer through the biggest financial crisis in generations. It was “Hope and Change” and it defined the presidential candidacy of an inexperienced, largely unknown senator from Illinois. Barbara Conley was one of the millions of Americans swept up in Barack Obama’s promises of hope and change when he accepted the Democratic nomination at a packed football stadium a few miles from her home in the Denver suburbs.