By Robert Paul Reyes
May 2008

Things don't look promising for Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. George W. Bush has the lowest ratings of any president in history since the advent of polling. McCain's only hope may be for another 9/11 type terrorist attack in the homeland.

McCain is already playing the "fear card", falsely painting Obama as an appeaser of terrorists. Talking with your enemy is not equivalent to appeasement. As any student of history knows, appeasement means making tangible concessions to your enemy, in the hopes that it will satiate him and keep him from going to war against weaker neighbors.

Obama is by far the most qualified candidate to lead this country in time of peace, or in the midst of a terrorist attack. Americans should reject McCain's fear mongering and elect Obama as the next president of the United States.

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As George W. Bush would say, "Fool me once shame on.. shame on you... eh.. um.. a fooled man can't get fooled again."

The GOP played the fear card in 2004 and they're at it again in 2008.

I hope the American people will reject the Republican Party's fear-mongering and scare tactics. Let's not get duped again!

The irony of McCain playing the fear card: he’s the scary one

June 26, 2008

The Republican campaign message is nothing if not blunt: vote for us or die. None of that prissy Ivy League subtlety and nuance for these guys, boy howdy: nope, just good old-fashioned American scaremongering.

Somewhere Joe McCarthy is smiling.

Let’s touch on just a few recent examples:

Newt Gingrich (yeah, he’s still alive) in responding to the Supreme Court granting limited judicial review to detainees at Guantanamo Bay said, “This court decision is a disaster which could cost us a city. And the debate ought to be over whether or not you’re prepared to risk losing an American city . . .”

Rudy Giuliani speaking of all the Democratic candidates said, in effect, that if a Democrat wins in November America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the level of Sept. 11.

John Bolton recently predicted that Israel will attack Iran if Obama is elected, since, you know, they’ll be afraid that Obama will simply be too wimpy to hold Iran in check.

And, of course, most recently, McCain campaign honcho, Charlie Black, famously opined that another terrorist attack on American soil “certainly would be a big advantage” for McCain.

Will this “we’ll scare your vote out of you” strategy work this time? There’s certainly some reason for optimism it won’t. After all, similar Republican fear tactics fell flat in the 2006 congressional elections (although they were a smashing success in both 2002 and 2004). And this year, so far anyway, people seem more interested in domestic issues — the economy, health care, energy costs — than in terrorism based scaremongering.

But, lest we forget ...

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