Gloom Offensive

摘要

For a man whose bumper stickers promised "Hope not Fear", Barack Obama knows how to scare people. "If we don't act immediately," he told the citizens of Elkhart, Indiana on February 9th, "our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point, we may be unable to reverse."rnNo one doubts that America's economy is in a bad way. But the notion that it might never recover was previously entertained only by bearded survivalists stockpiling beans and ammunition in remote log cabins. Queried by a reporter about his "dire language", he could have admitted that he exaggerated a bit. Instead, he launched a waffly attack-three times longer than the Gettysburg address-on all those who doubted his warnings.