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Elmore Furth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 08:26 PM
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Politics of fear are still with us
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Edited on Sat Sep-05-09 08:35 PM by Elmore Furth


The Screech Owls on the Right are spewing out disaster and horror every day. "We are all doomed and Obama is taking us there!" What a bunch of toadies for the Neocon Disinformation Squad.

We know "Fair & Balanced" reporting is the ongoing description of terrorist-loving, America-hating liberals and the Conservative champions who will save us all.


The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 09/05/2009 12:14:21 AM MDT
Peg McEntee Jeremy Harmon/The Salt Lake Tribune

So President Obama wants to talk to kids about education. The political right is horrified. It's not only a socialist plot, they say, it's illegal. Even worse, the president is trying to steal the children's minds in some scenario in which a live video of Obama's speech will turn the little ones into leftist automatons.

It's all about fear, and we as a nation seem to be drowning in it.

We are gripped by recession and a 9.7 percent unemployment rate, the cost of living and health care are soaring and our military is fighting two increasingly intractable wars.

I don't buy it. Not the fearmongering, and not the notion that Obama is conspiring to turn our republic into name-your-most-hated nation: Canada, Britain, France.


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