Rhetoric vs. Reality: Hope and Fear

Rhetoric:

"Don't give in to fear. Let's reach for hope."

- Barack Obama, August 16, 2010 in Milwaukee

Reality:

"Don't give in to fear ..."? This uttered by a president who:

• said he needed to sign a $trillion "stimulus" bill immediately or else the economy will collapse,
• said he needed to bail out GM immediately or else the entire auto industry will go irrevocably belly-up,
• said he needed to sign gov't-run health (s)care into law immediately or else millions of Americans will die due to lack of health insurance coverage,
• said he needed to sign a $26 billion unnamed bill immediately or else millions of American children won't be able to go to school due to lack of paid teachers.
• sicced his DHS and media thugs on regular Americans exercising their Constitution right to protest against their rogue government, scaring people into believing the country was under a growing threat of racists, white supremacists, Timothy-McVeigh-wannabes, and crazed militiamen.
• sicced his DOJ and media thugs on Arizona, scaring people into believing Nazi-zona police would be rounding up random brown people at ice cream parlors asking for their pay-pahs!
• over-exaggerated the damage done by the BP oil leak and put a moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in order to scare people into believing that beneath every oil rig was an ecological disaster waiting to happen.

Two years ago on the campaign trail, the whole "hope vs. fear" slogan was overused and tired. But now it's just hypocritical.

There's a bumper sticker I see every day I'm at work: 

"Democrats vote their hopes; Republicans vote their fears."

Right. Because the whole Chicken Little "The sky is falling!" campaign that poisons our schools, bookstores, and movie theatres is an example of Democrat hope.

The environ-mental-ist movement of activists and bureaucrats mobilizing to ban everything from DDT to silicone breast implants to transfats to sugary foods and drink in school vending machines for fear that all these things and much more are killing us!!! - that's really Democrat hope.

Millions of anti-Iraq war protesters marching in the street for seven years calling George W. Bush Hitler and terrorist - another prime example of Democrat hope.

Those same protesters and their political cheerleaders campaigning on accusations that the Bush administration was either (a) creating a totalitarian police state with the Patriot Act and Club G'tmo, (b) establishing a right-wing Christian extremist theocracy, (c) making the whole world, especially the Muslim world, hate us, or (d) All of the above - that was definitely Democrat hope!

I think you get the picture.