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President Obama: 'Fear and frustration' drive voters
Politico ^ | Oct. 16, 2010 | CAROL E. LEE

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 that’s what this election is about.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: antiamericanliar; demagogue; massachusetts; obama; racisthypocrite
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To: Lazamataz
I'm half-expecting this moron-of-a-President to wear a sweater, have a fireside chat, and be attacked by a rabbit.

I'll donate a rabbit.

41 posted on 10/16/2010 8:32:37 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$ or PETA.)
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To: my small voice
Can he say anything that doesn’t belittle?

You didn't finish.

Can he say anything that doesn’t belittle the entire United States of America?

42 posted on 10/16/2010 8:32:47 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: stocksthatgoup
Could someone please translate?

"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."
43 posted on 10/16/2010 8:32:47 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Am I my half-brother's keeper?)
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To: Lazamataz

You are too kind to this moron, Laz. At least Jimmy Carter’s ‘Malaise’ speech wasn’t made as part of an election campaign (it was in July, 1979).


44 posted on 10/16/2010 8:33:49 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
"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."

Where did you get that unauthorized TransBarackafier?

45 posted on 10/16/2010 8:33:49 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’s half right. Frustration at the Obama agenda will drive millions of people to the polls in a couple of weeks.


46 posted on 10/16/2010 8:35:39 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - Orwell)
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To: skaterboy
Barack Obama, Deval Patrick and Barney Frank were unable on a Saturday 3 weeks before an election to outdraw Sarah Palin on the Boston Common in April on a Wednesday.

That's not a fair comparison. It takes time for Obama to put out a casting call, audition the audience and rehearse.
47 posted on 10/16/2010 8:36:27 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Am I my half-brother's keeper?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Liz; AT7Saluki; writer33
He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly”

I've been goofy for about two years now.

48 posted on 10/16/2010 8:37:09 PM PDT by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“You can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this,”

The proper way to respond to a trauma like YOU Obama is to vote for people who will stop your traumatizing policies. What a grade-A jerk.

49 posted on 10/16/2010 8:37:47 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: my small voice

“Can he say anything that doesn’t belittle?”

The short answer is no.


50 posted on 10/16/2010 8:37:58 PM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
You are too kind to this moron, Laz.

Pretty much anything I say would be too kind.

First of all, there was speculation in religious communities that Obama was the AntiChrist. Not a chance -- the AntiChrist would not be such a lazy, incompetent buffoon.

There was speculation that he would be another Hitlerian tyrant. Nope -- if Hitler was this moronic, tin-eared and unsuccessful, Germany would have been a good neighbor and the Jews would have flourished.

All he is, is utterly devoid of talent, intelligence, and motivation. So all he can do is fall back on accusing all of us of the qualities he has: hubris, fear, narcissism, incompetence, and idiocy.

51 posted on 10/16/2010 8:38:04 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sometimes fear and frustration are perfectly reasonable reactions.


52 posted on 10/16/2010 8:38:10 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...Richard Frank DeCamp, 11/13/34-9/15/10, R.I.P.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He faulted the economic downturn for Americans’ inability to “think clearly”

We are thinking very clearly Obama and we reject you and the rest of the socialists. We’ll talk Nov. 3rd.


53 posted on 10/16/2010 8:39:39 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: RichInOC
Sometimes fear and frustration are perfectly reasonable reactions.

I no longer fear Obama.

I pity him.

He's wayyyyy over his head.

54 posted on 10/16/2010 8:39:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: ronnie raygun
Fear and frustration? more like fed up and determined

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The Rats are shovel-ready for the dust bin of history.

White House senior adviser David Axelrod-1sm

55 posted on 10/16/2010 8:40:38 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Translation: We. Are. Stupid.

2012 can't come too soon for me.  The GOP better wake up and field a viable, CONSERVATIVE candidate.
56 posted on 10/16/2010 8:42:15 PM PDT by Brizick (Repeal the 17th Amendment)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

From “Hope and Change” to “Fear and Frustration”

Good going pal.

Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.


57 posted on 10/16/2010 8:43:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

leftists like Obozo really are SCUM

all rational criticisms of their depravities must be psychologized away, dismissed as “anger” and “fear”

how about this, Obozo: tens of millions of Americans are rational in loathing you and your agenda! We know what you are, DESPISE your lies and frauds and radical agenda, and will kick your party to pieces in a couple of weeks

then, God willing, we will kick your ugly butt out of the WH by 2012 if not sooner


58 posted on 10/16/2010 8:45:27 PM PDT by Enchante ("Baghdad Bob" (aka Robert Gibbs) is the ideal spokestwit for the Demagogue Party)
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To: Gene Eric
Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.

Lol. Nice job Mr. Eric.

59 posted on 10/16/2010 8:45:39 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yeah, we’re frustrated you’re not listening and afraid you’re going to dump more crap on us.


60 posted on 10/16/2010 8:47:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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