Fear Factor

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”

-William J. Clinton-

Remember when presidents offered us hope instead of fear? Do you remember when we were encouraged to make things better instead of being chastised for disobedience, told to *”Go f*ck yourself” or given **“Quack-Quack” as an explanation?

Franklin Roosevelt once and famously told us that all we had to fear was fear itself, yet now for the last 4 years we have been told to be afraid – very afraid. Yesterday we were told that are things so fearful that we may have to use nuclear weapons preemptively. The idea that our administration will once again smell WMD’s in places where they are not is indeed very frightening, but one suspects that the same strategy that brought back the color-coded Terror Alerts on TV news crawls right after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast is at work.

The idea being sold is that we are in too much danger for us to be questioning them right now. Like most of us, the administration is falling back on things that have worked before. This time it’s starting to work on me. I’m getting very nervous about a President who covers up the fraud and incompetence of his first military endeavor by promoting another and larger one. There may come a point at which he needs to make good by nuking someone. At least, if he does, there will be no second guessing about whether there were or weren’t WMD’s as the place where they were supposed to have been won’t be there any more.

All we have to fear is Bush himself.

*Dick Cheney
**Anton Scalia