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 thats what this election is about.
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With Zero in 24/7 campaign mode. Just who the H is running this Country. and I’m not buying the Airforce one is just like the WH.
100% douche-bag pretender.
In a way he’s right.
Fear because so many didn’t see what the guy is and now they’re scared of his agenda.
Frustration because he keeps ramming through his scary agenda even though the people make it clear they don’t want it.
It’s very simple - he ran pretending to be a moderate, too many people believed him, and now the sheep’s clothing is no longer hiding the wolf.
If we had a free press, like they have in, uh, Russia, this quote would be on the front pages of the newspapers and TV reports.
The Kenyan usurper is now reduced to outright insults of the electorate's cognitive abilities?
Well, that's an amusing tack on the Kenyan Clown's part, but I doubt that it's a fruitful one.
It is truly amazing to me that Russia and the US basically traded seats.
Damn right. Scared of what your criminal henchmen in the Congress will do to this country next.
“You people are idiots. You’re irrational, unreasonable and pig-headed. Now vote for me, you stupid dullards. Because I’m all smart and persuasive, and you’re a bunch of scared little girlie-men, unable to think straight.”
LOL, good translation!
And as for YOU, Obama:
WE
DO
NOT
WANT
TO
BECOME
COMMUNISTS.
Got it, Zero?????
Sure it the cause, YOU did create it after all with your extreme leftist agenda so what do u expect?
“It is truly amazing to me that Russia and the US basically traded seats.”
Some forty years ago my father told me this would happen. I thought he was nuts. Per usual, he was spot on with an out of the box assessment.
Hopefully he meant the politician’s FEAR of the voter’s FRUSTRATION.
Allie is awesome.
The man is a sociopath, and a pathological liar. A demented cabal saran wrapped with a bundle of donkey dung, gasping for air.
“But it’s possible that Rahm was actually the voice of sanity in the White House for the past year and a half, and now he’s gone.”
That is a sickening but plausible thought.
OMG, Obama finally said something that was true.
You said it.
I have had my suspicions, but that statement: “hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared... convinces me that this guy has flat-out lost it. Help us.
Hope and change found drowning in the lake near Cape Fear. Rescuers under fire for refusing to resuscitate.
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