Reply #36: when I first heard of this on Tweety last night, [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

I thought, hm, interesting; I wonder how he's going to turn this one around (they had given me the twisted spun version so it seemed worse than it actually turned out to be, once I read the whole context). I didn't panic, didn't feel nervous. I just knew he'd do something good with it.

So much so, that he may have been just waiting for a chance to make a statement like this. It's a way to bring up the festering anger the working class has had for some time. Bring it to the light of day, force people to look at it, and offer hope for change. It's great politics, if he did it on purpose. If not, he's still using it to best advantage.

Like I said, I never had a moment of fear. He's got what it takes to handle incoming fire.

I know exactly what he's talking about. The economic insecurity is a breeding ground for fear--fear of a lot of things: immigrants, for example. People who are not like you (minorities, gays, what have you). They are drawn to socially conservative ideas because of fear.