Barak Obama Fear Mongering

...a learned response from the Bush Administration

As the inevitable democratic nomination of Barak Obama gets closer & closer, the fear mongering about what will happen to the United States (& Israel), if he becomes President, has reached a fever pitch...even I am starting to get scared!

The fear mongers want us to believe that Barak Obama is an anti-American, anti-Semitic, "wolf in sheep's clothing", black supremacist that will put policies in place which would alter our country's moral & cultural beliefs, or worse, threaten our safety & our democracy. They want to convince the American electorate that Barak Obama has his sights set on somehow sabotaging our very existence. Are we to believe he could actually do that?

Thankfully, we still have a democracy made up of three branches of government with checks & balances to prevent any one branch of government from being to powerful. Unfortunately, for quite sometime, our government has not operated that way.

The country has become accustom to being ruled by a secretive, overbearing, our way or the highway, fear mongering Bush administration. I think there is very little chance that congress or the American people will allow the next president (or hopefully any future president) to govern the country that way.

President George W. Bush & his administration have ruled the United States via subversion, deception, coercion, and various other undemocratic, & in some cases illegal ways. They have systemically & methodically violated the constitution, the bill of rights, & the federal penal code (not to mention the Geneva Convention) all the while favoring their friends & business associates with the spoils of their efforts. And with complete disregard for the wishes of the American people.

They have justified their actions by telling the American people, usually way after the fact (& after they have been caught, denied the charges, & subsequently been uncovered), that it was for national security purposes & if they told us we would have been in danger.

President Bush has ignored the advice of his senior advisers all the while claiming the moral high ground or authority, regardless of expert & layman advice to the contrary.

The fear mongers think that they can scare the American people out of voting for a person they trust & believe would do a good job running the country using the very tactics that they used to lead us to war. Ramp up the fear, question your patriotism, & accuse you of aiding & abetting the enemy.

The fear we should all have is of another president like George W. Bush & the people who were his accomplices during the past eight years. All of which has threatened our democracy & our safety.

Vote your wallet, vote your religion, vote your conscience, vote your morals, vote for who you think will look out for your best interests or the best interest of the country, vote for who you think will improve the world. If we knew what George W. Bush would have done during his time as president, many Americans would have cast a different vote.