Monday, February 9, 2009

Hope spells F E A R

I was blammed so many times, i see too much of FOX news. All my comments against Now Mr. President comes from mind washing, FOX news has done. And with reminder of the brain, i am left with, i can not think straight.
Well... you all must have noticed, i had not commented on this blog since long. I had decided, to give President Obama a chance, instead of criticizing. And at the same time, i have started listning CNN for a change. here is what CNN says on Feb 4th and I quote: "In recent comments about the state of the economy, President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have been "fear-mongering" and "blatantly using the politics of fear to push for even more so-called stimulus measures". I was on airport and i heard this on TVs on airport. (btw have you noticed its always CNN on airports and never FOX News. Any idea why????)

President Obama and other top officials are blatantly accusing -- blatantly using the politics of fear to push for even more so-called stimulus measures. They want that bill in the Senate passed without any scrutiny, without any thinking. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, today, topping Barack Obama, however -- Gordon Brown saying the world is in depression.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her own contribution to hyperbole today. She said 500 million Americans lose their jobs every month. She misspoke of course. The total is about a half a million in December.
And President Obama today warning about the danger of an economic catastrophe. "A failure to act and act now will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession, a less robust recovery, and a more uncertain future. Millions more jobs will be lost. More businesses will be shuttered. More dreams will be deferred. "
The Obama administration is just a little over two weeks old, and it appears already that the politics of hope have given way to the rhetoric of fear. Say, it is in my opinion, frankly, time to stop talking down our economy, for our political leaders to stop using fear-mongering to pass economic legislation, and to insist on more thinking and a lot less rhetoric.

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