President Obama and the Politics of Fear Part 2

 President Obama is using what the left decried as “the politics of fear” when President Bush was in office. Well President Obama is practicing the same politics of fear, only instead of terrorism, which Obama doesn’t take serious, he is engaging in the politics of fear on another subject; the economy.

 Gone are Obama’s promises of change, gone is his message of hope, and gone are the days when he claims that the seas will cease to rise once he is in office. All of these glorious, positive, inspiring, narcissistic views have been replaced with the dark, ugly, and hateful politics of fear.

 And the reason that he has changed his message and is trying to scare the American people is insidious. All of this fear-mongering by the Obama administration about how this is the worst economy of our lifetime is disingenuous to say the least. Rahm Emanuel is on record as saying “never let a serious crisis go to waste, what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before,” and Barack Obama seems to be taking his cue from his chief of staff.

 President Obama is using the politics of fear to try to push his massive spending bill through congress before the American people have a chance to see what is in it. He claims that there will be a catastrophe if we do not give him what he wants and we don’t give it to him right now.

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,

 That does not sound like hope to me, it sounds like fear-mongering. America has been in recessions before, this isn’t the first or the worst one. Yet Obama is claiming that it is and why? Because he wants to spend, spend, spend. That’s why. We have been through recessions and the free market has readjusted and corrected itself but now with a radical far left Democrat in office we are led to believe that the only way to get out of this is for the government to spend its way out of this.

 President Obama is using the politics of fear to get this spending bill passed quickly because he knows that every day that passes without his signature on this bill is another day that the details of this bill leak out to the American people. In just one week support for this bill went from 45% in favor of the bill to 45% opposed to the bill and the number is falling daily.

 So Obama will try to scare the American people into pressuring their senators into supporting this bill but the bloom is off the rose. It is becoming clearer to more people every day that this bill is not about stimulating the economy but rather spending money that the country doesn’t have.

 President Obama is using the politics of fear, he is an economic fear-monger. I ain’t scared, are you?