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Obama: Voters 'Scared,' Not Thinking Clearly About Election
foxnews.com ^ | October 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 10/18/2010 9:31:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Americans are so "scared" they're not thinking straight about the upcoming elections, President Obama said over the weekend, as he sought to explain why voters are turning to Republican candidates.

The president, speaking at several rallies and fundraisers as part of his final get-out-the-vote stretch, said Republican candidates are "playing on fear" and suggested voters are falling for it. He said Americans have every reason to be worried, but lamented that "facts" aren't doing his party any good this year.

"People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared. 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," Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser Saturday in Boston. "And the country is scared, and they have good reason to be."

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1 posted on 10/18/2010 9:31:08 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He must be referring to 2008.


2 posted on 10/18/2010 9:31:48 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’ve been scared ever since he was elected.


3 posted on 10/18/2010 9:33:28 AM PDT by MissTed (Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I'm sure he meant pissed off, but the TOTUS misspoke.
4 posted on 10/18/2010 9:33:36 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We are thinking clearly and it is the Democrats who are scared.


5 posted on 10/18/2010 9:34:22 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The entire contents of the “Community Activist” handbook is being revealed day by day.


6 posted on 10/18/2010 9:34:24 AM PDT by radioone ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We are thinking clearly and it is the Democrats who are scared.


7 posted on 10/18/2010 9:34:33 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: MissTed
He looks and sounds more like ADOLPH HITLER every day. And that's an UNDERSTATEMENT!

Get him a STRAITJACKET ! ! !

8 posted on 10/18/2010 9:35:13 AM PDT by Huebolt (It's not over until there is not ONE DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE ANYWHERE. Not even a dog catcher!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Those damned bitter-clingers again!
9 posted on 10/18/2010 9:35:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared,"

I dunno, I think fear focuses your thoughts quite well. It's called survival instinct.

10 posted on 10/18/2010 9:36:45 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I am not scared, I am ticked off at him and his comrades. His administration has acted exactly like the "right-wing kooks" said he would.

If we really get "scared", bambi will be too...

11 posted on 10/18/2010 9:36:57 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Many years ago, my Daddy told me it was possible to sugar coat a turd. But once all the sugar was licked off, it was still a turd. The American sheeple have just about licked off all the sugar on the ObaMao turn and don’t like what they see.


12 posted on 10/18/2010 9:37:15 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Der Fuhrer!


13 posted on 10/18/2010 9:37:19 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Boogie Man in the Oval Office wants to know why voters are scared. Anyone have any ideas?


14 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:05 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Heil! Obama!   Speil! Obama!
Heil, Obama! Spiel, Obama!

15 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Americans are so "scared" they're not thinking straight about the upcoming elections,

How about "Scared and hyperalert because of the last two years"? The storm winds of Obama have finally cleared away the fog the Dems had been using to hide their aims.

16 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Grblb blabt unt mipt speeb!! Oot piffoo blaboo...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Fear the people, Zero. If they can vote out their Congressmen, they won’t hesitate to throw you under the bus. I love the smell of napalm in November ...


17 posted on 10/18/2010 9:41:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Be nice to venomous snakes. They only want to eat a mouse!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Umm...Education did nothing for you Obambi. People are not scared, they are mad as hell!

You might of scared us at the beginning, I admit that the millions of small businesses that closed were scared shtless over your election. People that knew what you were all about used to be frightened.

But now they are angry, and you are going to pay for that. We should not have to be afraid of any political leader, and thats what you just didnt understand, O “Educated” One!

Its only normal that the people of this wonderful nation turn from being afraid of what you will do to them, to now plotting what they can do to you. Its that old “get even” game, that you are so good at. Now its backfired on you, the fear has turned to such anger that people cant put it in words.

But we all feel it, even you. You know it, we know it.


18 posted on 10/18/2010 9:42:05 AM PDT by Debi911
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To: KarlInOhio

You got it.

The left made a mistake and put a revolutionary Marxist in power,
and the rest of us “frogs” woke up to the fact that it’s jump now or we’re cooked.


19 posted on 10/18/2010 9:42:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Another lecture from professor dipsh!t.


20 posted on 10/18/2010 9:43:07 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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