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Obama and Fear

By Jonathan Simor

President Obama's remarks about fear and American voter perceptions are once again raising the charge that Obama is an elitist who views the anger felt by American voters in this year's midterm election as pathological. According to Peter Baker's reporting in The New York Times the President said:?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,? he told a roomful of doctors who chipped in at least $15,200 each to Democratic coffers. ?And the country is scared, and they have good reason to be.?Besides the impolitic quality of the remark what is most telling is the President's assumption that facts and science normally carry the day...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).