So you would think that the 7+ years of dealing with Bush that the candidate and their supporters would have learned a lesson, that fear-mongering is a fad that is going out of style like a high top fade (all apologies to Kid from Kid N Play). But fear is alive and well, and it’s Hillary and the entire right side of the political aisle that is trying to run with “the fear bomb”.

What kind of fear are we talking about? Well Matt Drudge ran a story that the MSM rolled with showing Barack in a tribal elder garb consisting of a white turban and dress. Drudge said that someone in the Clinton camp circulated the photo and the Clinton camp cannot with certainty deny that it came from them and Obama has taken Hillary “on her word” that she did not authorize the photo distribution. Of course this photo was circulated to help out the false claim that came out of the Clinton camp that Obama is a muslim, a story that many educated people still believe is true and the xenophobia just runs wild! For the record Obama is a member of the Trinity Church of Christ and the smear people falsely claim that the church is radical, racist, and a secret Muslim front.

Switching to the next fear channel, the right side of the aisle is trying their best to ensure that you know Barry’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama. Now I wonder why they would do that, oh yeah that bad man Saddam Hussein. It’s just a shameful attempt to make people feel uncomfortable about the man.

Oh don’t you know that he is communist too? Apparently he father of Kenyan descent and his mother of Kansas descent was some how so radical and so socialist in nature that Obama is a commie. A number of e-mails and threads on the Internet is just pressing this angle pretty hard but at least the MSM hasn’t even picked up the story. Wow a communist muslim, who’da thunk?

Oh and by the way, Obama is not a true patriot because he does not salute the flag during the pledge and he does not wear a US flag lapel pin like so many representatives have since 9/11. Of course the picture was not of the pledge but of the national anthem (for those not in the know it’s not tradition to place a hand over year heart for the national anthem, just to stand) and this is what he feels about that:

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.

“Instead,” he said, “I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.”

Now you think that someone actually sticking up for ideas would suffice, but the right is still hammering on this story, and the audacity of a pundint that went on Dan Abrams to criticize Obama while he did not win a pin. Just too funny!

Back to Hillary and her desperation to win Ohio and Texas, these new Karl Rove-eqsue ads began popping up today trying to go for the angle of “think of the children!” is shows a mother looking at her kids at 3am, trying to tug on the emotion strings of the parent electorate. Now Obama did some politikin’-judo and reversed the ad on her today but it’s just another example that victory for Hillary comes at the cost of fear.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was eloquently spoken by FDR on his first inaugural address as a guide to rise above the fray and not fall into the trap of fear-mongering. Well it seems that for some years fear was traded like a commodity and the sheeple ate it up. At least there is an articulate candidate that can reverse that trend, but how many voters will predicate their judgement based on lies, deciept, and fear?