President Bush is constantly criticized for playing "the politics of fear" whenever he refers to the Islamic terror threat. When Rudy Giuliani was running for president, his campaign produced an ad that featured footage of the burning, smoking mass that used to be the World Trade Center. He too was accused of "playing the fear card."
Now Hillary Clinton is being attacked for "playing to our fears" by airing an ad in Pennsylvania that shows Osama bin Laden. Barack Obama jumped all over her for it, saying we need to move on from "fear tactics" and that her ad was all about "scoring political points."
What does he think he's doing out there? Running for dogcatcher? Of course she's trying to score political points, as is he, by pointing out that she's trying to score political points.
Here's the bigger political point: Hillary made the decision 15 months ago to run on her so-called "experience." She hopes that flashing the image of bin Laden will reinforce the idea that she's better prepared than her opponent, Senator Deer-in-the-Headlights, to deal with the real threats coming at us.
We SHOULD be afraid. Despite significant progress in killing and capturing top and mid-level al Qaeda and other terrorists, Islamic radicalism is still the most dangerous enemy we face. Jimmy Carter, Obama's "mentor" of sorts, thinks we can just hug it out with Hamas and other terrorists. Obama believes in "talking" to them. (By the way, Carter talked and hugged and hugged and talked and Hamas still blew off his request that they renounce terror.)
A few years ago, Hillary criticized Giuliani and other Republicans who aired ads featuring footage from September 11, but now she's doing the same thing, because she knows they were right to do it.
We don't live in a fantasy world, filled with rainbows and puppies. We live in a country that remains the number one target of Islamic terrorists. We should feel fear. We should be wary. We should be dealing in reality about the threat, rather than anesthetizing ourselves with wishful thinking that if only we had Obama, all of our enemies would go away. (In fact, Obama is so weak and sympathetic to some of their causes that the enemy is rooting for him.)
There ARE threats facing us. They are real, and they are powerful, and they are deadly. If Obama wants to pretend the threats aren't there, or that he'll be able to work his charismatic magic on our enemies and make them disappear, he is certainly free to indulge that fantasy.
Hillary, for all her faults, knows better. And so do we.
The ACLU needs to take an interest in the fate of people like Nick Berg.
Period.
END. OF. STORY.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | April 23, 2008 at 10:23 PM
That last comment demonstrates perfectly that you have no idea what the ACLU is about or what its purpose is. I guess I can't even discuss this topic with you because, as usual, you are being completely unreasonable. We'll just have to move on to the next topic that you have an absurd opinion about.
Posted by: FK | April 24, 2008 at 08:30 AM
. So if I understand you correctly, the Democrats and liberals are not the enemy.
Posted by: FredK2929 | April 22, 2008 at 01:50 PM
You understand perfectly Fred.
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You understand WRONG. The dhimmicrats and anyone who wants to hand over our Sovereignty to the enemy should be brought up on charges of treason.
That includes Hitlery.
Her tough talk recently remains just that - talk.
Posted by: Ummahgummah | April 24, 2008 at 10:42 AM
UG --
What do you mean by "hand over our Sovereignty to the enemy". Do you think that I want to do that? How so?
Posted by: FK | April 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM