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President Obama: 'Fear and frustration' drive voters
Politico ^ | Oct. 16, 2010 | CAROL E. LEE

Posted on 10/16/2010 8:05:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WEST NEWTON, Mass. - President Barack Obama said Americans' "fear and frustration" is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda.

"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 hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country's scared.” Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”

“You can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this,” Obama said, referring to the economy. “One is to pull back, retrench and respond to your fears by pushing away challenges, looking backwards. Another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward. And that’s what this election is about.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: antiamericanliar; demagogue; massachusetts; obama; racisthypocrite
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1 posted on 10/16/2010 8:05:13 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Fear and frustration? more like fed up and determined


2 posted on 10/16/2010 8:07:20 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (The tides coming in)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A full blown fool. He is beyond disgusting.


3 posted on 10/16/2010 8:07:31 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh, for crying out loud....Just fix the country, get some experts on economics and job creation...and don’t tell me about hard wiring...

Stop patronizing me ...we’ll show you hard wiring at the polls in Nov.


4 posted on 10/16/2010 8:07:36 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( Ok, Joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

OMG... talk about delusional... this guy may wind up being marched out of the white house in a straight jacket...


5 posted on 10/16/2010 8:07:46 PM PDT by dps.inspect (the system is rigged...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

6 posted on 10/16/2010 8:08:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

it’s YOU, you f-ing moron! We don’t like your nanny state!


7 posted on 10/16/2010 8:08:08 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We’re not scared...Just mad as hell!


8 posted on 10/16/2010 8:08:21 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: ronnie raygun

this is a job that you can’t learn as you go. You mus know what the hell you are doing.


9 posted on 10/16/2010 8:08:48 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey Obama, ever think just for a split second, that we are just fed up with your damn lies! November 2nd can’t come fast enough


10 posted on 10/16/2010 8:09:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey Obama! Staying home and bitterly clinging to my guns and religion takes care of the fear and frustration.

What I really feel is irritation and loathing.


11 posted on 10/16/2010 8:09:38 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Celtic Cross

we are past scared, we are mad as hell and we are not taking you any more Mr ZERO.


12 posted on 10/16/2010 8:09:59 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: ronnie raygun

Obozo is right when he says...

“Another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward. And that’s what this election is about.”

Oh...Yeahhhhh...We ARE going to move forward in this election! HA HA!!


13 posted on 10/16/2010 8:10:30 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( Ok, Joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No mention of clinging to guns and bibles this time?


14 posted on 10/16/2010 8:10:38 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Barack Obama, Deval Patrick and Barney Frank were unable on a Saturday 3 weeks before an election to outdraw Sarah Palin on the Boston Common in April on a Wednesday.


15 posted on 10/16/2010 8:10:45 PM PDT by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama's view from the Oval Office: Americans’ inability to “think clearly”

Americans' view of the Oval Office: Obama's inability to think clearly.

16 posted on 10/16/2010 8:11:11 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Condescending tool. Would that his father had met Monica Lewinsky instead of the rat eared Kansas chick.


17 posted on 10/16/2010 8:11:31 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Psalm 144
""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 hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared,”

Could someone please translate?
18 posted on 10/16/2010 8:14:58 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Second year in a row with no COLA in my federal retirement check because Social Security recipients will not get one, that impacts our checks, too. Health plan going up seven per cent. My local Democratic school teachers going on strike this week. My school district tearing down a fifty-year-old school to build a new one because special interests run the school board, taxpayers have no say. My taxes going up. Shit yeah, I am ticked.


19 posted on 10/16/2010 8:15:44 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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20 posted on 10/16/2010 8:17:11 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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