Obama Caves to 'Scaredy - Cat Nation - Democratic Underground

AlBrattOnline

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Thu May-28-09 09:33 PM
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Obama Caves to 'Scaredy - Cat Nation

Fearmongering is a common and,apparently, sucessful technique employed by Conservatives.Today, they are applying it on our Democratic leader.

A paradox of the modern United States is that it wields unprecedented military power in the world yet its people are constantly kept frightened about unlikely foreign dangers. Its politics, too, are dominated by fear.

The way this plays out most often is that Republicans (aided by the U.S. news media) exaggerate overseas threats and denounce the Democrats for being "soft" on whatever the current "threat" might be: the Reds, the yellow menace, Soviet "beachheads" in Central America, or now Islamic terrorism.

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rgbecker

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Thu May-28-09 09:45 PM
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1. and swine flu.

Read the article about parrot flu in current New Yorker to get an idea of the media and "Pandemics."

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