“SCARING PEOPLE is not leadership.”
UPDATE: Jacob Sullum: “President Obama’s pro-stimulus op-ed piece, which Matt Welch skewered earlier today, displays the panicky, scare-mongering rhetoric we have come to expect from a politician who entered office less than a month ago with a reputation as a calm, cool, and rational weigher of facts.”
And here’s the Welch skewering.
MORE: A reader emails:
Roosevelt: We have nothing to fear, but fear itself!
Obama: Be afraid. Very afraid!!
Civilization, in every generation, must be defended from barbarians. The barbarians outside the gate, the barbarians inside the gate, and the barbarian in the mirror...
Thursday, February 05, 2009
The First Time As Tragedy, The Second Time As Farce
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