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DEMOCRATS AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR

Obama Has Repeatedly Said That Republicans Use The Politics Of Fear, While He Seeks To Unite All Americans:

President Obama: “There is going to be a fundamental difference between the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee, ending the politics of fear that has so dominated our political debate, making certain that we’re actually listen to the American people and the struggles and hardships that they’re going through.” (, , and , “CNN Air’s ABC’s Coverage Of The New Hampshire Debates,” CNN Live Event/Special, 1/6/08)

President Obama: “The irony is, yesterday, just as John McCain was making these attacks, a story broke that he was actually guilty of exact [sic] the same thing that he is accusing me of … And that’s the kind of hypocrisy that we’ve been seeing in our foreign policy, the kind of fear peddling, fear mongering that has preventing us from actually making us safer.” (David Gregory, “Inside The Obama War Room,” MSNBC’s Race For The With David Gregory, 5/16/08)

President Obama: “We have been engulfed by a politics of fear for too long, where 9/11 is used as a way to scare up votes instead of a way to bring us together around a common purpose to defeat a common enemy.” (John King, , Jessica Yellin, , Donna Brazile, Campbell Brown, , , and , “Election Results,” CNN Newsroom, 2/9/08)

President Obama: “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally .” (Richard Sisk, Kenneth R. Bazinet, And David Saltonstall, “Bush Rips Bam As A Fool On Terror Says Look What Appeasing Thugs Got Us When Nazis Went On Rampage,” Daily News (), 5/16/08)

Hillary Clinton Said Bush’s Presidency Was Dominated By Division And Fear:

Hillary Clinton: “ will lead us away from the division and fear of the last eight years back to unity and hop.” (, , , David Gregory, , Pat Buchanan, Norah O’Donnell, Mitchell Bernard, Chris Matthews, , Harold Ford, “Coverage Of Day Three Of The Democratic Convention,” MSNBC Special, 8/27/08)

Sen. Kerry Has Castigated Republicans For Using The Politics Of Fear:

Sen. Kerry: “Sen. McCain, who once railed against the smears of Karl Rove tactics … The same old politics of fear and smear – well not this year, not this time.” (Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, David Gregory, Rachel Maddow, Pat Buchanan, Norah O’Donnell, Mitchell Bernard, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Harold Ford, “Coverage Of Day Three Of The Democratic Convention,” MSNBC Special, 8/27/08)

Sen. Kerry: “This election is a chance for America to tell the merchants of fear and division, you don’t decide who loves this country.” (Chuck Todd, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, David Gregory, Rachel Maddow, Pat Buchanan, Norah O’Donnell, Mitchell Bernard, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Harold Ford, “Coverage Of Day Three Of The Democratic Convention,” MSNBC Special, 8/27/08)

Head Of The Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Has Said It Is Despicable For Republicans To Use Politics Of Fear:

Rep. Wasserman Schultz: “To Use Terror As A Political Tool Is Just About The Most Disgusting Thing I Can Think Of.” “Change to Win, that has backed Obama and called on McCain to fire Black. ‘The memory of our workers and all Americans who died on 9/11 demands it,' the organization said in a statement. Added Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an Obama supporter from , 'To use terror as a political tool is just about the most disgusting thing I can think of.'” (David Saltonstall, “Barack Obama Backers Demand John McCain Fire Aide Over Terror Wish,” Daily News, 6/24/08)

Rep. Wasserman Schultz: McCain Has Nothing Left But Fear And Doubt. “MR. MATTHEWS: Congressman Wilson, your thoughts about this? Is this ad fair ball? REP. WILSON: I think it is. And I have to say that, you know, Senator McCain has said he's not going to go there, and this is the guy's faith and so forth… REP. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: It's the politics of fear... MR. MATTHEWS: Do you think this crosses the line into dirty politics, into ethnic politics, showing the Reverend Jeremiah Wright with such power like that? REP. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I do. It's a place that not even John McCain would go. But he's allowing his surrogates and his affiliated organizations to do it for him. He has nothing left but fear and doubt.” (MSNBC’s “Hardball,” 11/2/08)

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka Accused George W. Bush Of Using “The Politics Of Fear And Manipulation”:

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka: “My friends, in 2008, we voted, together with a clear majority of our fellow Americans, to send George W. Bush back to Texas … the American people finally turned away from the politics of fear and manipulation toward change.” (“Remarks By AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Campaign For America’s Future,” States News Service, 6/8/10)