Hillary's Politics of FearBe afraid. Be very afraid.
This has been the mantra of the Bush Administration since 9/11 and it has now apparently been co-opted by Hillary Clinton.
Senator Clinton promises she will protect us from "day one." Barack Obama and John Edwards not only can't keep America safe since they don't have the experience of being First Lady for a combined 16 years, but terrorists will be more likely to come after us if either of them were elected president. Why? We don't know. It seemingly has nothing to do with policies, facts, or reality, but what George Orwell described as the powerful tool of fear.
Forget Big Brother; we apparently have Big Sister to keep us safe and secure.
Will Democrats really fall for the same fear-mongering, Cheney-Rove rhetoric they have despised and criticized over the past seven years?
"I don't think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister," she was quoted as saying before the New Hampshire primary. "They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do.... Let's not forget you're hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down."
Senator Clinton's fear strategy was repeated and re-asserted in the Las Vegas, Nevada MSNBC Debate on Tuesday night. When asked if her previous statement that Al-Qaeda would be more likely to test a new president (apparently she doesn't qualify as "new") was meant to induce fear, she re-asserted:
"What I said is what you quoted, and I'm not going to characterize it, but it is the fact, you know, the fact is that we face a very dangerous adversary and to forget that, to brush it aside, I think is a mistake. So I do feel that the next president has to be prepared because we are up against a relentless enemy and they will take advantage of us. They will certainly, as they have over the last several years, continue their attacks against our friends and allies around the world. . .And at the end of the day voters have to make that decision among all of us. . . because it is a critical question."
Again, no explanation of why she is bringing this up on the campaign trail other than to a) perpetuate fear, and b) assert that she is the candidate uniquely able to protect American citizens.
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