Once again, the president of the United States has managed to insult the people whom he is supposed to lead — the same people that he promised ad nauseam to unite under the twin banners of “hope” and “change” once he took office. As out-of-touch as ever with the mood and motivations of his fellow citizens, Obama carefully considered the change in the today’s political climate and concluded not only are voters in this election motivated by fear, their fear is irrational because they obviously don’t have the intellectual capacity to understand all of the great things that Democrats have done for them over the past nineteen months. If this message is Obama’s secret weapon to rescue his party from Election Day disaster, Republican candidates across the country can take the rest of the campaign off.
“People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared,” Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser in Boston on Saturday. “And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared, and they have good reason to be.”
Those three sentences represent a classic example of the Democratic thought process, although most Democrats would not express such sentiments less than three weeks before an election. Democrats embrace fear. It’s the emotion that drives them as much as any other. They spent eight years demonizing practically every move George W. Bush made by whipping up fear. Domestic wiretaps, Gitmo, and the War on Terror itself were all examples of fascism on the rise in America, or so the Left claimed. When foreign leaders criticized our actions, that was proof enough that America was fast becoming a rogue state. In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned for “change.” Left unsaid, but well understood, was Obama’s belief that if we didn’t change our ways, America was doomed. If that’s not appealing to fear, what is?
The president also demonstrated once again his party’s deeply held belief that they – and they alone – are the only legitimate purveyors of the “facts and science and argument” that are part of the ongoing public policy debate. If you don’t like the government taking control over seventeen per cent of the economy through the healthcare bill, you’re obviously not aware of the “facts” that prove this is a good thing. If you oppose all of the draconian measures that Lisa Jackson’s EPA is putting into place that will have a brutal effect on American industry, then you are clearly scientifically illiterate. If you have a problem with the stimulus packages, then you’re clearly listening to the wrong arguments. There is no debate to be had in Obama’s world, because the word “debate” presupposes two legitimately held, defensible positions. The president clearly believes that he and his party know the absolute truth in every instance and anyone who denies those truths has to be acting irrationality, or out of fear and stupidity.
Obama will never accept that the average American is smart. His way is the only legitimate way in his frame of mind. Anyone who disagrees or supports a differing point of view is to be marginalized, slandered, or outright threatened by the Progressive/Big Labor machine. Obama will never be satisfied until a European-type socialist government exists in America, even as thosse same European nations begin to shift away from those ideals. The fear politics incessantly utilized by Obama and his cronies is just one of many "tools" they use to stifle opposition or dissenting opinion.
It matters not anymore what he says. Fewer and fewer listen to him. The more he appears in public to help incumbents in the coming election, the more he damages their chances.
Lately, the Obama rants show him in an increasingly bad light. He wants us to beware the chimeras and goblins while in truth he himself is the incubus!
How do you spell malaise?:
" facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared…"
Somebody buy this man a sweater and turn the thermostats down….(the curse of having two Carters in the same millenium….)
Well Mr President,Barack Hussein Obama,the glamour and glitter has worn out
and what rests is a man desperate to keep things together by playing the old
democratic tune " it is they who doing it not us " we love you all and the poor muslim
it bit more. The economy is killing Americans? Not us Oh no.The dollar is loosing
his position more and more to the Yen? not us but them . The age of rum and co- ca–co-la is fore ever lost. The judges around the ringside [ Putin-Osama-and the crackpot from Iran] are counting ten and out.
These are not the ranting of a desperate man and his minions, they are in fact all lies, he started out with the biggest one of them all, claiming he's an American. Now, leaving the mental illness which infects all of the liberals aside, I don't know of any American who is currently scared of anything much less this pretender and his lies. We are a very head strong Nation of Rebels, all the way back to our founders, and we are less likely to put up with another, especially knowing this one can not even open his pie hole without an ensuing lie coming from it. Than, his party and the lie about being an American are coming to an end. I see hand-cuff in his future.
Please do not leave out the leg chains and shovel for the
road gang……..His shovel ready job…………………………..William
What I will never be able to understand is how a people, knowing his history, his pals, his associations during his years, could possible swallow line, hook and sinker his
preachings of "CHANGE" , which are nothing but the same Trojan horse CASTRO, CHAVEZ, CORREA, etc, sold their peoples…and to see that 80% of American Jews voted for him, is to me the epitome of stupidity…
Is somebody aware of any beneficiaries of this "socialist" demagogue STIMULUS packages, because I' m still to learn about the first one….
His are the actions of a man who has deluded himself. The Professor-in-chief sees this huge tsunami coming and being the narcissist he is, looks to blame anyone else but himself. And to show his disrespect for our level of intelligence, Mr. O. tells us Darth Vader is returning.
It is not his policies, but the people who are not thinking clearly. Somehow, in his mind, we're the same people who are clinging to our guns and Jesus. How can we ever be brought up to his level? Why can’t we understand that he’s only doing it for our own good.
I have news, Mr. O.; the people are thinking clearly. They know you must be stopped and taking out your majority in Congress is step one. Step two must wait until 2012.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope Ret.Marine is right about the hand cuff in Mr.O future, Help us God to be free of this little Rat.
I hope he continues this rhetoric. He flies so high above everyone tht he does not have any type of grasp on what Americans think or feel. He comes from a place ( community activism ) in which we are an evil, unfair place and if only middle America, and the South, would get out of the way we can have a fair, equitable country. His arrogance is so blatant it has almost single handedly given the oppostion the upper hand. Please keep it up
His fundamental belief that he is omniscient and anyone who disagrees with him is ignorant. This is a man who has openly stated that America is no better then any other European country. He surrounds himself with anarchists, socialists and communists. He has used every dirty trick in the book to get his legislation through Congress, He believes that the people should be wards of the state, and that they are incapable of taking care of themselves. HE IS A LIAR who needs a teleprompter to speak to an elementary school class. HE IS A TRAITOR and should be dealt with as such! Furthermore, Congress should demand to see his citizenship papers and make them available to the public as he works for us. When I apply for a job, I must do the same. A birth announcement in the newspaper just doesn't cut it.
This "job" is a stepping stone to bigger and better things. Look for the One to lead the United Nations efforts to destroy the West, in general, and the U.S., in particular. He really believes hs is the Chosen One and will stop at nothing to bring the U.S. to its knees for past sins.
The sad part is, there are plenty of others who believe he is the "Chosen One" and that includes many Mohammedans.
I believe that Mr. Obama sees himself more as a Commissar than the President of the Greatest Nation in the history of this world. The American People are finished with his lying nonsense. Many of the Socialist-Marxist Democrats in the House and Senate will be kicked out of their sinecures in November.
This is just the beginning of a New American Revolution. November of 2012 will be the second step to eliminating Socialist-Marxists from the Congress and White House. America is FINISHED with Socialist Schemes!
If being scared causes people to not think clearly, should we conclude that our new Messiah is the most scared person in the history of the US?
Like all liberals, Obama is scared. Scared of the truth – something Lil barry has never known.
Obama appeals to the people who look inside themselves and see – not much. They don't see that will to succeed, the will to work hard, the vision that we build during our growing up years that tells us what we want and inspires us to figure out a way to get it.
Obama appeals to the people who like to think of themselves as other people's, or society's victims and they, therefore, are deserving of some recompense from this unfair, victimizing society.
Obama continually plumps up this attitude with all his rhetoric about big business, the rich, the unfair, the greedy, the crooked, etc. He likes to plant the idea into these unthinking brains that if it weren't for all of that, that they, too, would be well off. After all, they deserve the fruit from the trees planted on others property, that the other planted, pruned, fertilized,and watered simply because they believe that maybe that land shouldn't really belong to the other. Maybe it should be the land of all of us, without any individual ownership. Without ownership, then who would plant, prune, fertilize and water?
I think these ideologues missed a few basic books in their childhood, or maybe they were deliberately missing in the little red schoolhouses; The Little Red Hen, The Emperor's New Clothes and later, Animal Farm and Brave New World, to name just a few.
I guess we are all just mentally challanged Obama genious deniers to this self righteous narcissistic A – hole. I read a story recently about a psychiatrist who has
studied Obama and he concluded that he has 8 of the 10 symptoms of "narcissistic
personality disorder. This is a serious mental disorder bordering on sociopathic behavior.
Paddydonovan hit the nail on the head. Let him keep blathering. Obama has lost all credibility except with the sycophants who still faint in his presence and the yes men surrounding him. No rational person is buying the garbage he spews, the race baiting, the class warfare, the demonization of financial success, etc. He has made perfectly clear the "transformation" he would hope to impose on us. The majority doesn't like his future for America. Living in his insulated world of radical leftist ideology, he has misjudged the common sense and intelligence of the citizenry. We know a con artist when we see one. The emperor has no clothes.The Empty Suit and his lackies in Congress will pay.
Because Obama is black! The very sad truth is, the heart of the heartland is racist. Even those who claim not to be. They simply are. When you are out of a job, losing your home it is hard to "look down" on non whites when you are pretty much 'down there' yourself. Especially hard when a black man is now president and he is 'up there' where you are not. You don't see very many black or Hispanic Tea Parties do you? At least I don't. Every vitriolic hate filled face I see on TV spewing extreme non solutions are white. The comments are that these people are stupid. Actually they are not. They just don't want to take responsibility for anything. They want to blame and make it 'the other guys' fault' and preferably the black guys' and illegal guys' fault. What they don't realize is that if they are elected, then it will be THEIR fault. Maybe it is time to run this country like a successful business instead of a three ring circus.
Questionman:Are you serious or is this a tongue-in-cheek post? We are all past the fact Obama is allegedly Black. He is a Marxist/Socialist/Hater-of-America. As far as seeing "vitriolic hate filled face(s)," what the Hell are you watching? We've all seen those radical Tea Party folks with their American flags, their kids in tow, attending rallies for the first time in their lives. Are these the "haters" you're seeing on TV? Maybe you should stop watching MS-NBC where news is fantasy.
Only in bizarro world. FPM and other like-minded outlets use fear every hour of every day. It's your stock and trade.
The fear Obama is talking about is the very type of fear that guys like Rich try to create while they are busy rewriting history. To say that this Obama quote shows that Democrats embrace fear is simply tone-deaf and stupid.
Good luck whitewashing Bush outside the bizarro world…..you have decades of work ahead of you. But this article does get to one of the main points about Obama hate….some of it is just Republicans and guys like Rich still butt hurt about people criticizing Bush…oh boo hoo. Grow up sparky…after 9/11, fear was the fuel of the Bush Administration. And fear continues to be the primary weapon of FPM…
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Well, if that is true, it seems to be working
Community Organizer = Professional Agitator
Politics of Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTau9zzK2bI