March 1,2008 – “America’s at its best not when it’s fearful.” – Sen. Barack Obama
March 30, 2008 - "We need to break the politics of fear that uses 9/11 to scare up votes" – Sen. Barack Obama
February 5, 2009 – “Because each day we wait to begin the work of turning our economy around, more people lose their jobs, their savings and their homes. And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse. “ – President Barack Obama
Isn’t it funny? When a guy runs for president, he and his party decry the “politics of fear.” Yet, when the proverbial shoe is on the other foot and that candidate who decried the use of the “politics of fear ” is now president, he engages in the very behavior he claimed to abhor as a candidate. Somebody needs to explain to me how it is bad for one party to engage in the “politics of fear” while it is good for the other party to do the exact same thing.
Whatever happened to being a “post-partisan” president? Whatever happened to “change we can believe in”? How is engaging in the “politics of fear” now different from when it was practiced by another party before the last election? This is the same party that uses the same election tactic year after year. They tell senior citizens that the Republicans are going to take away their Social Security, and in the process of doing so scare the hell out of said seniors. That sounds like the “politics of fear” to me.
Where is the change in that?
