The GOP is the real party of fear-mongering
Thursday, July 14, 2011 | 2:01 a.m.
Arthur A. Ahr, in his Wednesday letter to the editor — headlined “Democrats resort to scare tactics to pass their agenda” — states that President Barack Obama is a fear-monger.
But isn’t that what the George W. Bush administration did for eight years while it dictated its extreme and maybe even illegal right-wing policies?
If we wish to be truthful about the initial cause of our economic and unemployment crisis, we need not look any further than the invasion of Iraq. Remember this war was funded not through normal budget standards but through fear-mongering tactics of a mushroom cloud.
Reliable economists and statesmen believe this war has so severely damaged our economy and our political world standing that we may never fully recover.
Additionally, the majority of the GOP presidential candidates are using unfounded, unrealistic, idiotic and at times fear-mongering tactics against President Obama to woo what they believe is their true base. If this is their true base, they have my deepest sympathy.
Some of these candidates have signed pledges that have racial overtones, degrade gays and want no tax increases — even for the richest companies. Not all of these policies are fear-mongering, but if you lump them together, it points to both fear- and hate-mongering.
I believe it is not President Obama’s job to set our budget, but he has bent over backward to help Congress solve our economic woes. To reference his statements of fact as fear-mongering is wrong; he is only trying to right a wrong-way GOP.
If Don Ellis want to talk about the three wars (afgan, Iraq, and Libya) then he need to find out why Obama is still fighting those war.
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Is this is Democrat fear-mongering
This week Obama told Seniors they will not get a check
This week Obama told the troops they will not be paid.
Who will get a check the whitehouse staff.
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Obama dared Cantor to 'call my bluff,' and then stormed out of negotiating room.
So what is the Obama bluff - well Republican dare to ask Obama to put in wrtting the cuts that he will make - and when in the future. Of course Obama, Reid, and Pelosi will not do that.
Obama is specific on the the $1 trillion Tax increases Obama, Reid, and Pelosi wants on people making $106,800 starting August 2nd.
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But isn't that what the George W. Bush administration did for eight years while it dictated its extreme and maybe even illegal right-wing policies? If we wish to be truthful about the initial cause of our economic and unemployment crisis,
The United States swore George W. Bush into the White House and, to this day, remains the only country to have allowed someone with an IQ that technically qualifies them as mentally retarded to be commander-in-chief. Of course, Dubya's legacy as
Matthews says Bush "got away" with lying about Iraq having something to do with 9/11. "You think, you think anybody but George Bush -- George W., with his limited mental power surrounded by the neocons -- would have taken us into that war," Matthews
The Energy Independence and Security Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush and supported widely by both Republicans and Democrats in the House. But don't get too excited about getting back your light bulb freedom yet.
is pretty much identical to George W. Bush's famous “you're either with us or against us” formulation. If the one is “a reductive, simplistic, puerile expression of … low IQ sensibility and … dreadful moral absolutism,” then the other is too,
Talent Tidbit: The IQ of George W. - and what we can learn from it ...
Summary: in a reaction to my previous post, Linda Lin mentioned a New Scientist article that debunked the myth that high-IQ people are necessarily 'smart'. After showing that even students at top universities as Harvard and Princeton get some rather simple logical riddles wrong, the journalist mentions that George W. Bush's IQ has been estimated to be above 120. So actually, George W. Bush should be pretty smart. Why didn't he appear so, and can that teach us anything on how to develop our own smartness or stupidity? George W. Bush, even to his friends, does not exactly appear as the brightest candle in the Christmas tree. And with quotes like
they may be forgiven for their opinion. However, estimates of George W.'s IQ are actually in the range of around IQ 120, some people even suggesting that Bush has an IQ of 128-129 (based on his SAT-scores). So Bush would be bright normal, or even borderline gifted. So why doesn't George W. seem smart? Is he cleverly hiding his intelligence as to not intimidate the electorate? Are the IQ-estimates wrong? Or is something entirely else the matter?
It is of course possible that George W. Bush is deliberately hiding his intelligence, but also rather implausible given that a president is under constant stress, which would shatter almost any mask or false persona, simply because it's very hard to lie consistently, even though politicians would be more used to it than the average person.
Secondly, it's possible that the IQ-estimates of Bush are false - while there is enough evidence that rich and poor children don't differ in average IQ, the better education of rich children produces higher SAT-scores. As George Bush Sr. is a multimillionaire, he may have been able to get George W. to the best schools and/or afford tutoring, which, according to educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom, would bring even an average performer (IQ 100) to the top 1-2% of the scholastic achievement (so around IQ 130). It's therefore quite possible that the IQ-estimates of Bush Jr. are unrealistically high. Still, even if George W. has an average IQ, that would barely explain why he is considered stupid, instead of merely a normal, average person.
The new scientist's article explained Bush's 'stupidity' by remarking that intelligence is useless if intelligent people are too lazy or too rushed to think properly about a problem.
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