WSJ: OBAMA'S NEGATIVITY IS CATASTROPHIC

WSJ: Obama's Rhetoric Is the Real 'Catastrophe'

By BRADLEY R. SCHILLER

President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.
[Commentary] AP

In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today's economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.

This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics.

WE AGREE - AND POSTED THIS FACT ON 1/26/09, AND AGAIN ON 1/31 - TWICE, HERE AND HERE. AND REITERATED IT ON 2/9/09.

• OBAMA IS A NATTERING NABOB OF NEGATIVITY.

• AND IT HURTS THE ECONOMY.

• THEY TRIED TO GET US TO LOSE IN IRAQ WITH THEIR RELENTLESSLY NEGATIVE AND DEFEATIST RHETORIC.

• AND THEY'RE DOING THE SAME THING WITH THE ECONOMY - JUST SO THEY CAN TAKE CONTROL OF IT.

• IT'S LONG BEEN PART OF THE SOCIALIST TACTICAL PLAYBOOK - TO CREATE CATASTROPHE SO THEY CAN PICK UP THE PIECES, AND OBAMA IS MERELY CARRYING IT OUT.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.

BOTTOM-LINE: WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF - AND SOCIALISM.